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Overview

  • 63 references 30 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Russian; learning French
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Studying art, teaching english, surviving
  • I have been educated with sticks, whips... Actually finis...
  • From Auroville
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION
I grew up in Auroville and now i'm in Saint Petersburg. It's really different.
my mission is to educate myself somehow, now that i'm in here (yey), and try not to get lost and remain happy no matter how hard that grey sky presses down on my head.

Hey gang, i'm out till first dates of september. I'll start looking for a place to rent myself, but we could still try figure out something simple at my friend's place, it'll be on the floor though and your own sleeping bag is a bonus.
ABOUT ME

A little tent, somewhere lost, near lake Baikal, a guy staring into the stars. Listening to the conversation between them and the lake.
If you happen to be passing by just call, i'll make a cup of tea for you and we can both listen and look.

traveling - by cycle, by foot, by mountain bike, by bus, by train, by lamborgini, home-truck, taxi, moped, tricycle.

chocolate cake is good

True Friends make our worlds .

combination is very good.

Sometimes I like to discuss eternal subjects through the night, with friends and many litres of black, green, red and white tea for example.

Other times i like to not do that. Those times i prefer to do something else, like sleep. Really really well.

PHILOSOPHY

Our movement has to be towards the light.
No matter what, we have to try, always.
I think that we get to give, and not give to get.

either its really really simple, or dead complex.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I host, i surf...

In those moments, when i plan a trip somewhere and i write to tons of people and they all say they're leaving the town village or their planet or all their 106 relatives are coming so there 's really no more space for the 107th person... I clench my teeth... and continue searching... and writing...and hoping!

MY COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
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Interests

Tango. Just anywhere
Getting into the mechanics of an AVTOVAZ 2108
I like to go to fleamarkets and just look at all that amazing junk
motorbikes, yes. definately motorbikes.
taking a box of watercolors and making something nobody really understands
Cycling, including long distance.
hitchiking, tree house building, good muzak
Calvin & Hobbes reading, going to the beach with my little sister! and more...

drink coffee, make coffee, drink coffee...
tea, tea, tea...

  • writing
  • tango
  • chocolate
  • coffee
  • drinking
  • clothing
  • reading
  • traveling
  • cycling
  • fencing
  • boxing
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Blues Brothers (both), Blade Runner, Tarkovsky's films, The Secret of Kells, The Song of the Sea.

Tango moves me deeply. from 20s classics to Noevo
I can listen to it, dance it, live it.

Muzic: Blues! all the goodies of america 60s 70s 80s
soul R&B Jazz

Russian: Aquarium BG, , Kino

course Nightwish,

books: Well, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother,
Strugatsky Brothers, Ray Bradbury, Vladislav Krapivin, Tuhtyaevi, (Like they are talking about one big beauty)
Tolkien, Kir Bulichev, Richard Bach, Conan Doyle,Douglas Adams and more i can't remember at the moment!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

God i have this amazing sister... She's like my small sister but now she's taller, than me.. anyway its complicated. but one of the amazing things she does is she sometimes just goes to sleep on a rug or something on the floor in all her clothes and she curls up under a blanket and it looks so damn good and comfortable. I tried it . Then I realized my life was missing something really important.

Also this one time, our car suddenly just sank into ice. apparently we were driving on ice. and it cracked. and it was winter. nobody around. temperature around -15. i panicked. i felt a bit like the guys in interstellar. totally abandoned. realizing that this little ship, our car is the promise of life on this desolate terrain that stretches for miles. and without it we're goners. i repeat, goners.

I sat in the matrimandir

Teach, Learn, Share

computer hardware -teach
dj, learn, beginner
treehouse construction - intermediate
English - teach
Russian - teach
Fencing, L'escrime, Фехтование - teach!
and would love to learn!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, France, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Russian Federation

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