Our names are Tetiana and Mykola. We love socializing and meeting new people. We are really interested in travel and exploring new places.

We are positive people, that enjoy living and we try to do our best in what we are involved. We are very respectful, and caring.

Our daughter profile:
https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/valya-markova

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

We have traveled a lot and know that it is impossible to understand country without people who lives in.
We get to meet so many people from all over the world and it is possible to have invitations to go as far away from your home.
We are interested in cultural exchanges, sharing, and like to think that even if you cannot change the world, you can still contribute and try to make it a better place. So we are trying :D

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Host: Nicole from Boston and Jonathan from NY 2015. Ricardo from Brazil and Wadim from Poland in 2016
Surf: Torsten, Stuttgart, Germany, Anna from Strasbourg, France. Harald from Cologne Germany. Daniel from Luxembourg, 2015

Interests

I (Tetiana) together with husband try to spend every vacation out of our country. It should be new place or lovely previous place. We like traveling by car. We have visited Italy, France, Finland and Sweden by our lovely Subaru.

When we are in Kiev we like reading books, fishing, ride a bicycle, and try to spend every weekend out of home.

I really like to plan my future trips. In May our work team has vacation. Last years I created trips for groups. I mean for me and my coworkers. My plans usually organized and exact :) If you want to see a lot in short time you need to plan your trip before. All things like fly tickets, hotels or private flats, rent cars, find parking places, nice places, book tasting or tours, buying tickets for concerts or cabaret, etc should be managed. And when I am on this trip it is really amazing feeling :)

I am fan of rhythmic gymnastics. When my daughter was child she started her career as sportsmen and for now she is coach. I supported her all this period. We helped to organize our team traveling for participating in tournaments, design and creation team costumes and I made a lot of personal costumes with 4000 Swarovski stones and with pictures on material. We like watching tournaments in TV and if we have tournament in Kiev we will be there all days:)

• books
• design
• perfumes
• concerts
• cooking
• coach
• flying
• reading
• tv
• traveling
• cars
• socializing
• fishing
• gymnastics
• teaching
• software
• tours

Music, Movies, and Books

Muse, Red hot Chili Peppers, Beatles, Queen, The Doors, In Flames, SOAD, Metallica, Nirvana, French chanson (after visiting Lapin Agile), De Phazz, Morcheeba, Jazz blues
Books, movies - fantasy, Haruki Murakami, Game of thrones, Чародеи
And Tom Demarco The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

T&M: our daughter
T: I have lived in Siberia.
T&M: Fishing piranha in Vietnam. I have caught 4 fishes and Mykola 2:)
T: I saw Fujiyama mount
T: Riding in a lot of attractions in Fuji-Q park near Fujiyama. They are really high and quick (I have acrophobia).
T&M: Riding bicycle on coast Atlantic ocean Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. When coast after low tide is very solid and everything around you are shone of light of sunset.
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Teach, Learn, Share

As for learning and sharing, we are also glad to exchange with different people :)
We can tell a lot about a lot of interested places when we were in. I can share my experience of creation travel plans and how you can see a lot in short time.
I am happy to help anyone with their Ukrainian or Russian, can be very patient as a teacher.
If you are related with software development and interested in testing i can provide quality assurance training's. Mykola can help as Java Developer. We are good specialists according a lot of coworkers in this area with a lot of experience :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

A lot of cultural things about Ukraine and Russia, cooking, and probably a lot of other things. :)
Ideally would love to have people stay over a weekend. In the day we can show you the sights.

Countries I’ve Visited

Aruba, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, Ukraine, United States