I am a hopeless romantic, who belives in miracles and fairy tales. Growing up is too mainstream, so I've firmly decided not to.

PHILOSOPHY

eARTh without ART is just eh...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've started using this magical tool to meet amazing people and built incredible friendships in 2009. Ever since then every experience I've had with Couchsurfing has been fantastic.

I've been hosted by the most wonderful, hospitable and kind people in Thailand, Hong Kong, China, Hokkaido, New York and Europe. And of course whenever I settle down I host people at my place like I did while I lived in Japan.

Interests

Travelling, excessive reading, art, snowboarding and other winter sports (Siberian heritage), scuba diving and marine life exploration, foreign languages, music (violin&piano), watercolor painting, cooking and baking, botany and entomology to some extent, history and politics (focus on East Asia), yoga, Japanese cuisine, Japanese cinematography.

• arts
• books
• yoga
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• music
• piano
• violin
• scuba diving
• snowboarding
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: (mainly British) indie rock, rock in general, jazz, classical music. Always discovering new bands and sounds. Basically I like most of the bands beginning with 'THE'.

MOVIES: classy, smart, witty and funny movies. I enjoy literary adaptations, though I would always prefer a good novel / short story to a film.
Love creations of Woody Allen, Francois Ozon, Wim Wenders, Pedro Almodovar, Emir Kusturica, Shion Sono.

BOOKS: I am a girl who reads (and occasionally writes). Love classics. A big fan of British, Russian, American and European literature. Familiar with Japanese and Chinese literature as well. To name a few - Maugham, Chekhov, Kundera, Kafka, Orwell, Akutagawa.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Played in an orchestra in Japan. Performed Tschaikovsky’s Symphony N5.

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach you how to make a paper crane origami.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Macao, Malaysia, Maldives, Montenegro, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Japan, Russian Federation, Ukraine

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