IF YOU WANT TO SEND ME A REQUEST READ THIS

1. Where I actually live
Armenia is a beautiful mountainous country with amazing nature and vast historical heritage. It is also a real country with multiple cities, towns, villages and distances between them. My town, called Alaverdi, is located in the north of Armenia, 40-smth kilometers from the state border with Georgia. It is nowhere near Yerevan; in fact, it takes about 3,5 hours depending on the type of transport and weather conditions to reach my town from Yerevan. I kindly ask any potential guests to look at the map beforehand and think if making this journey - and sending me a request - is feasible in the amount of days they are planning to stay in Armenia.

2. Who I actually want to host
Bearing in mind that Armenia is a real country, I personally would prefer to host people who looked at the map and did some reading about the region, subsequently got interested in this particular area where I happen to live and were pleasantly surprised to find a host in such a small and a remote town. And there are plenty of things to be curious about in and around my town, we have lush forests and cold, fast rivers with clean streams supplying them with water, we have deep canyons and magnificent tall mountains, we have many ancient monasteries scattered across the landscape like gems and tiny fortresses sitting on top of hills, the list goes on. I'd love to host people who feel they can appreciate all of that and are excited to visit this particular corner of Armenia.

3. Who else I don't mind hosting
That said, I'm willing to accept requests from people who looked at the map and familiarized themselves with Armenia's geography and possible routes through the country, but who aren't that crazy about the canyons and the monasteries, who just feel my town would be a cool place to spend a few days at, since it is so conveniently located on their way. I'm ready to assist those who're looking mostly for a couch to sleep on, if it makes sense for them to go all the way in the direction of my couch.

4. What I expect to see in a couch request
DO: say hi, using or simply omitting my name, tell me your name and where you're from, add one or two personal things about yourself, for example, interests we have in common or a couple of words about your life story, and, MOST IMPORTANTLY, tell me about your reasons for wanting to visit Armenia in general and my town in particular, give me a rough description of the route you planned and the activities you would like to do
DON'T: change my name into something it isn't, call me anything but my name, send me one-liners consisting solely of "hi how are you" without any actual information about yourself or your trip, skip reading my profile first, especially this and "my home" section

CURRENT MISSION

To live my life and write about it.

ABOUT ME

Hello people!
Chatty recluse, writer, grammar fan, sleepwalker, lousy but persisent hill climber, skilled and experienced knitter, cat owner. That briefly sums it up.
I:
Don't stand racism or nationalism
Don't appreciate sexism
Don't hold homophobia in respect
Don't do sport, it ruined my childhood
Don't drink, it ruined my childhood

UPDATE: Glory to Ukraine!

I also:
Prefer my melons with a cigarette
Am perversely drawn to giving public speeches
Fond of subtitles
Simply love the sound of bass guitar
Adore random facts

PHILOSOPHY

I diligently abstain from having one.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Mostly by occupying couches.
Hanged out with some people, hosted a few. Would like to host more.

Interests

Linguistics, travelling, painting, writing and expressing opinions.

• writing
• traveling
• crochet
• painting
• backpacking

Music, Movies, and Books

Corvus corax, Pyx Lax, Redd, Ataraxia, Sissel, Scorpions, Jaramar, Keiko Matsui, Cem Adrian, Reinhard Mey, Nakajima Miyuki, Revelling crooks, Ligabue, Santiano...
Klezmer, folk, EBM, darkwave, early and classical music.
Gerard Lesne is love.

Star trek, right? :D
Wouldn't be me without Monty Python. Treasure MASH. Get my happiness from Naruto.

William S. Burroughs is number one.
Gerard Reve is number two.
Dostoyevsky, Pamuk, Dawkins, Remarque, Lem, Maugham, Strugatsky brothers, Balzac, London, Abasiyanik, Oliver Sacks, Nusic, Malerba...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I actually stick to ordinary stuff.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can turn you into a master of yarn and crochet, spoil you with Russian swearwords, show you the most disgusting spam on the internet, tell you all you didn't want to know about brake pads and steering columns, teach you how to perform miracles with MS Paint and torture you with conditional sentences.

I welcome people who want to show me secret paths, teach me how to differentiate between a turtle and a tortoise, talk for hours about their favorite subject and torture me with conditional sentences.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Anything inside my head and almost anything inside my backpack.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Iran, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Spain, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Armenia, Russian Federation, Ukraine