CURRENT MISSION

To discover new people, places, traditions, to make photos and write stories about bright experience of traveling

ABOUT ME

"Passionate to life" is the most general and truthful thing about me.

PHILOSOPHY

"If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder."
"The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance -- the idea that anything is possible."
Ray Bradbury

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Currently I can't host any surfers, but I would be always happy to meet surfers, show wonderful places in Kyiv and wonder

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am beginner and would be grateful for all possibilities to live in different parts of the world and change ideas moods and ideas

Interests

One of my truly passions is photography. Please see my photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oksana_parafeniuk/
Among others are literature, cinema, music, handiwork, bicycling. Also I am a volunteer with www.openstudy.org.ua

• literature
• photography
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• science
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Last books I've read: Peter Ackroyd "London: The Biography", Simone de Beauvoir "The Second Sex", Virginia Woolf "A Room of One's Own", "To the Lighthouse", "The Waves", Mia Forrow "What Falls Away: a Memoir", Umberto Eco "The Name of the Rose" and others.

If to speak about my tastes in music you can lose oneself in many different styles. Starting with Nina Simone or Janis Joplin, and Cat Power, Zaz, The XX, Wild Nothing to Claude Debussy, Astor Piazzolla, Jacques Loussier, Claude Bolling and so on...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Bicycling in Central Park in early morning; Seeing Queen Elizabeth II during the Diamond Jubilee in June, 2012

Teach, Learn, Share

Few thing I can teach or share:
1. How to wonder
2. Bicycling
3. Developing black&white film.
4. Applying for the Fulbright Program
5. Cooking delicious apple pie (ant other sweets)
6. Can recommend great world photographers