CURRENT MISSION

Learning about the world, letting people learn about my country

ABOUT ME

We are: friendly, open-minded, loving Japanese food, mountain and river hikers, married for 7 years, eager to get new experience of all kinds, snowboarders, are always happy to see friends at our place, collecting funny games from all over the world(be ready to share one:) ). We have a 3yo son and a 7yo dachshund, who will not leave you alone until you give her a good stroke. We love talking and laughing and sharing experience. We try to travel as much as we can, though we don't get as many opportunities for this as we'd wanted to.

PHILOSOPHY

Be open to people, be open to everything new, be open to the world.
Learn as much as you can and share your knowledge

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We hosted people around ten times so far and we are open for more! )

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We started hosting people first, and then went to France for holiday where we surfed 6 different places, and every time it was a very good experience due to fantastic hosts :)
Now we continue to welcome people at home and all of them were very nice persons so far :)

Interests

Travelling, snowboarding, hiking, ethnic drums, boxing (Artur), languages(Sonya, especially Italian), photography...

• photography
• dancing
• dining
• japanese food
• traveling
• drums
• hiking
• camping
• snowboarding
• boxing
• teaching
• languages
• volunteering
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies-the ones that make you feel good or make you understand smth new. Don't like the ones, where you can't make out-what was it all about:)
Music-different types of course, and between the two of us we like different kinds of music. From ethnic, celtic, spanish and so on to hip-hop and R'n'B.
The same about books, from Sience fiction to psycological ones. Now are trying to read something about a child's upbringling:)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Volunteer camp in England dedicated to bullying at school was great, as well as the volunteer camp in the small mountain town of Cole San Magno.
The Altay mountains in Russia and the river region of Karelia. Castels in England and the costline of Southern France.
visited 13 states (5.77%)Create your own visited map of The World

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: well, english and italian, obviously, as I'm a language teacher myself:), could teach also plaing the darbuka(arabic drum)
LEarn:I'd like to learn to dance any ethnic dances

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation