Privet! My name is Shaura, you can call me Shau.

At the moment I’m an exchange student from Russia in Central Washington University for this fall quarter. I’m studying business and supply chain management, but I’m also taking film classes and graphic design for fun. I’m also into art, in all shapes and forms - sculpture, photography, music, cinematography. I used to go to art school and recently I’ve discovered a new passion - film photography, you can see some of my photos of my instagram profile.

While I’m here I want to explore and see as much as I can, meet lots of new people and share my culture too
and i absolutely LOVE pets

Also, I’m fully vaccinated

My IG: @quiryang

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I have a goal to visit lots of my dream destinations in the US within the next three months and meet some interesting and open-minded people

Interests

One of my recent hobbies is film photography, you can check my instagram to see some photos, also I enjoy cooking and baking when I have a lot of free time to spare. In general I love talking to people, getting to know their life stories and exploring other cultures and different lifestyles.

• cooking
• baking
• hiking
• skateboarding
• film photography

Music, Movies, and Books

Frank Ocean, A$AP Rocky, Blood Orange, Tyler, Sade, The Cure, Mac Miller, RHCP, Fall Out Boy, Rakhmaninoff, Kamasi Washington, basically everything

I love Russian literature like Nabokov, Brodsky’s essays, Chekhov, Bulgakov. Also Donna Tartt, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre

Teach, Learn, Share

I’m from a small Turkic ethnicity from Eurasian part of Russia - Republic of Bashkortostan, that’s why I can share not only Russian culture with you, but also of my birth culture. I can teach you some bad words in Russian, cook some delicious meals, maybe discuss some politics, conspiracy theories and problems of today’s capitalism

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Russian Federation, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, United States