CURRENT MISSION

Help the others and let the others help you!

ABOUT ME

I'm studying at Brno to be an interpreter from and to Russian. I'm keen on travelling and living in other countries. I love music, books, coffee, beer and good healthy (organic) food. I can't live without mountains. Ideal summer is that which is full of hiking.
I really enjoy having a chat with my guests or hosts, it's nice to enjoy a breakfast or go to a pub in the evening, but I don't like huge noisy parties with loads of people, so please bear this in mind.
Please don't send me copy paste messages, I never accept people that don't even read my profile. I always think carefully before sending a couchrequest, because I think it's necessary to click with your guest/host, not just crash on their couch.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host people in my home town in Brno. I often go for various trips with my surfers, if i have a time, and if my surfers are willing to do that.
If I have no possibility to host I can show around or have a coffee.
When I'm traveling I enjoy having a chat and a cup of coffee with my host, but I don't insist on showing me around.

Interests

Snoozing in a train on the way to distant country :-) Staring from window of that train and reading when i'm fed up with staring. Then snoozing again, staring again, reading again... Ideal duration - 5 days :)
Apart from that I really like reading (I mostly read Russian literature because my field of studies, but I also like to Czech and Serbian authors. If you can recommend a good author from your country I'll be happy to learn something new. I can definitely recommend plenty of good Czech books that were even translated into English.
I also like classical music, so if you're into classical music it can happen that you'll go to a concert with my boyfriend and I. We're not really into the club scene, so don't expect this kind of recommendations :)

• writing
• books
• literature
• concerts
• dining
• breakfast
• beer
• coffee
• partying
• drinking
• clubbing
• pub crawls
• reading
• traveling
• music
• classical music
• hiking
• history
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Films by Andrey Tarkovskij and animated cartoons by Juri Norstein; Coffee and cigarettes by J. Jarmusch, Gadjo Dilo by Tony Gatlif...
Classical music (Shostakovich, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Dvořák, Janáček...)
Russian literature (Dostoevsky, Bunin, Solzhenicyn, Erofeev, Kharms...)
Czech literature (Čapek, Balabán, Ryšavý, Čep, Topol...)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Anything I do is amazing :-)
But recently I especially enjoyed that I've heard the end of Symphony No. 8 by Mahler, I've seen the view from St. Jerome Mountain in Montserrat Natural Park (Barcelona) and from the Rysy hill is Slovak Tatra mountains. And yesterday I had a nice cup of "yogi" tea in Brno's cafe Zastavka.

Teach, Learn, Share

I teach Czech for foreigners (and Russian for non-russians:), so if you wish I can teach some Czech/Russian phrases :-) I also can teach you how to drink beer like a Czech (in fact my boyfriend will definitely teach you this skill). I can tell you a bit about my country and town (but I'm not very good at history, so don't expect a proper lecture :-). If you are interested in translation studies I can give you a proper lecture, because I'm teaching it at the Brno university. But it could be a bit boring :D

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Russian Federation, United Kingdom