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Overview

  • 8 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Russian
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • English teacher in Moscow
  • CELTA Qualification. Went to Bradford University and got ...
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

In Europe

ABOUT ME

Working in Moscow as a teacher, enjoying it but I'm spending FAR too much time travelling around the city in the metro!! :-)

PHILOSOPHY

If I don't do it today I'll probably never do it, so sod it, today it is :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've stayed with people in Russia and recently USA, would like to see more of the world

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Stayed with a few people in Russia in 2008, had great experiences with them. surfed in the USA (2010) and in Central Europe in 2012

Interests

Travelling (obviously), meeting new people, keeping fit (though not obsessively), eating and trying new things :)

  • traveling
  • scuba diving
  • teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Fan of russian Literature, read lots of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy etc, also Bulkargov - Master & Margherita's great :)

also enjoy simpler books like Andy McNab :)

Music, anything, depends what mood I'm in

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've skydived, Abseiled and scuba dived. Slept rough in Russia for a night during October, was a little different and slightly cool!! hehe. Eaten some very strange things in Taiwan!

I've been on Hungarian radio and featured in Russian Cosmopolitan Magazine

Teach, Learn, Share

I speak some Russian, always trying to improve it and I love opportunities to practice it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Malta, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, United Kingdom

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