CURRENT MISSION

Balance in life

ABOUT ME

I'm fun, independent, down to earth, sociable. I love good food, movies in their original versions, pool, wordplay jokes, reading, singing karaoke, yoga, Zumba, philosophical talks, spending time with my friends.

I've been traveling for the past 5 months (Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Greece, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan) and am not intending to stop. At the moment I'm in the homeland - Belarus, where I haven't lived for over 12 years.

PHILOSOPHY

My motto: "Because the world is round, it turns me on".

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I started using CS when I lived in San Francisco where I hosted people who visited the city.

Don't mind the low reply rate please. I had 100 % till one month(July 2013)when I couldn't answer requests because I was intensely getting ready for graduate school. And as living in San Francisco one gets a loooot of requests, my reply rate fell drastically in just one month.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted people in my house in San Francisco.
Happily surfing while in Europe.

Interests

Samba, Zumba, playing pool, trying new things.

• singing
• dining
• yoga
• meditation
• zumba
• movies
• reading
• billiards
• karaoke
• surfing
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Queen, The White Birch, Jose Gonzalez, Regina Spektor, Russian Red, Jorge Drexler, Niyaz, Kings of Convenience, Nina Simone, Oscar and the Wolf

Lost in Translation, Eat, pray, love, the Matrix, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Breaking Upwards, Breathless, Room in Rome, Chaotica Ana

Viktor Pelevin, Julio Cortazar, Herman Hesse

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I recently came back from a 10-day silent meditation course in Thailand (Vipassana taught by Goenka) and it was a mind-blowing (actually mind-calming) experience. I would recommend every person to go through this course at least once in their life.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to make sushi, tell you a lot about languages, and share awesome word play jokes.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Laos, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Belarus, China, Denmark, Finland, Spain, United States