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Overview

  • 7 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Belarusian, English, Russian, Swedish; learning Finnish
  • 27, Female
  • Member since 2017
  • Translator, teacher
  • Minsk State Linguistic University
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

Constantly amazed by the number of opportunities in life. Love eventualities and new people.

I like travelling (the most typical phrase on CS, I guess), mostly alone. Two main reasons for that is plenty of time for thinking and plenty of opportunities to find an adventure. Until I turned 18, I've been to other countries just few times, so I'm trying to catch up now.

My three greatest passions are probably languages, horses and archery. Greatest, but definitely not only ones. I got carried away with something new so often, that my hobbies are sometimes quite... random, as a result.
I'm still looking for my place in this world. I've graduated from linguistic university, but that barely gave me any understanding about what I want to do in life and how I want it to look like.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

The best memories I bring back home from my trips are always have something to do with the people I meet along the way. It's always much more fascinating to see a country through the eyes of people living there than just stare at some tourist attractions.

Interests

  • poetry
  • coffee
  • chess
  • drawing
  • cycling
  • archery
  • languages
  • hitchhiking
  • travelling
  • horseriding
  • historical reenactment

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
Mariam Petrosyan - The Gray House
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Einar Askestad - Det liknar ingenting
Robin Hobb - Liveship Traders
A. Sapkowski, R. Bradbury, A. Kuprin, Max Frai, A.Lindgren, J. Tolkien, G. Martin

Films:
Cracks, The Wild, Lobster, Fucking Åmål, The Dreamers, In Bruges, The Hunt (2012), Les Choristes, Boys Don't Cry

Musik... well... something between teenage-style pop-musik and mongolian overtone singing, I guess?

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Biked 1000km alone through Poland, Check Republic and Austria.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Well, I'm a good listener and have plenty of coolstories to tell as well.
I'm ready to discuss almost any topic (except for maybe exact sciences, I'm a humanities-minded person to the very roots of my being, lol).
I also can try and cook some typical Belorussian food, if you are interested in.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belarus, United States

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