Dear friend of the Earth, how are you feeling today?
Prompted by the spread of the corona virus and the lock down in New Zealand I volunteer to give time and support, a conversation through any situation, any uncertainty to anyone who feels the necessity in it. Feel free to send a message, you are beautiful, you are very important and you will be accepted as you are. We all need a bit of support once in a while.

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Once trained in search and rescue I've traveled 32 countries with almost no money, mainly talking to people, helping in different situations.

Stay home, stay safe, stay friend of the Earth

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Good day to you, I'm just trying to be a better person when I can, be a ray of sunshine for people around or have a time for myself too, elaborating on my own ideas (got heaps, very creative humorous brain which never sleeps lol)) I also quite enjoy challenging myself and deep conversations. Love learning something new and lifelong friendships although I don't mind just cruising and short chats too.
Hitchhiked with no savings around 32 countries, just busking/singing to bring a bit more positivity into the world sometimes couchsurfing, sometimes sleeping outside on benches, trees, grass or camping in nature:) Got lots of stories and lots of experiences. Learnt heaps of skills, now a lot into gardening and sustainability (volunteer in the local community gardens), can teach heaps too if you'd like to know. I enjoy pretty much everything else so whatever you like yourself i'm very interested to know! Empathetic by nature:) Please share what you are and why <3

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in short lol:
Tall with brains. Direct and honest, with extremely creative humorous mind:)
I often do impossible yet even more often enjoy simple things like watching birdies on trees:)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To discover like minded people, who doesn't need to smoke anything to be happy and thinks about their health, the environment and people around. People with integrity: who walk as they talk!

Thanks to CS I realized my mother's dream to see Paris, and actually she lived there and after that she went to see all europe! thanks to CS everything becomes possible even for the people who were afraid just to try: )

Interests

Once I took my life in my own hands and started to change it. I hitchhiked out of Russia (where I was born) and around more than 30 countries since than, many kilometers, travelling with almost no money. I walked as well, the St.James way was one of the best walking experiences. One of my favourite skills is singing, after a few years of training I'm quite a professional now, my voice surprises many. When I need to have some money I sing and play the guitar on the streets for donations. I like to bring some positiveness and often would go and sing 'Don't worry be happy' which makes too many smile, I play many genres of music though. Apart from everything else I speak at least 7 languages, I'm an artist, constantly invent something with what I already have (the idea of recycling is not the last one in here), I adore medicine, I like to sleep outside, to walk and to think (about everything and it's not a joke, oh boy))). A creative brain never sleeps. But I'm still calm, I think because I know what I want. (Actually I want to move more, but tsss)) anyone who can get me outside to move a bit more is welcome to my life:) but most of all I like people who make me smile!

• arts
• culture
• literature
• singing
• acting
• massage therapy
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• painting
• drawing
• survival
• music
• guitar
• camping
• martial arts
• teaching
• languages
• medicine
• psychology
• science
• hitchhiking
• sleeping
• yin yoga

Music, Movies, and Books

i used to like action movies and movies about super heroes a lot, now i prefer films based on true stories. I sometimes immerse into a movie festival and enjoy new ideas it brings to my mind.
haha now I have so many pictures and stories in my mind that I can just sit and watch them without any devices.

Mozart, Ravel, beethoven, debussy, grig,
Evanescence, Korn
Barbra Streisand, Ella Fidzerald,
Old good russian songs, world folklore: from african dances like agabebkor to bulgarian national women choir which of course is westernised to make our western ears understand that kind of field music better, yes it turned out that music is not a universal language it.s a cultural thing! I like armenian duduk, indonesian gong or kutuk, arabic riqq or daff drum is also really nice! latin american andes el condor pasa, i adore languages I can produce sounds very similar to the originals and I learn different languages fast that's why folklore some local song for me are important and it's always very interesting to hear. books i'll name just a few!!!
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my favourite movies include Lorence of Arabia, Gandhi and Mother Theresa it doesn't mean that I cannot love spider man though, he's my favorite hero of all times, so wise and positive:)
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Asimov's short stories and scientific books as well, .Stanislav Lem the futurological congress, Herman Hesse about Joseph Knecht and music, Plato i remember some of the dialogs pretty well, also i think that aristofanos comedies are interesting to read at the begining, luis fernando Verissimo 'O nariz' e. um conto pequeno mais gostei muito short story that i read in portugues!, Henrich Senkevich Quo vadis? a tremendous book, noble prize winner by the polish author about the clash of roman pagan gods and christianity during the imperor nero time!, a japanese book written around 1000 years ago The Pillow Book (枕草子 Makura no Sōshi) is a book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Shōnagon during her time as court lady to Empress Consort Teishi (定子) during the 990s and early 11th century in Heian Japan., Sheckley, short stories, H.F.W.Hegel phenomenosomething of the spirit (just joking)), Shah Name (book of kings) an iranian/persian immortal book by Ferdousi!, Spengler the Sunset of Europe, Poe il cuore rivelatore (yes i read it in italian) , italo Calvino le citta invisibili, Twain actualy his biography was more interesting to me, L.N and A.N. Tolstoy both of those brothers are worth mentioning, F.M. Dostoyevsky the possesed, idiot, notes from the underground but i know that you most probably read crime and punishment:), i ve just read Griboedov.s Woe from Wit горе от ума - mmm we study it at school and our culture is impregnated with phrases taken from it, it.s very very well rhymed!!! william Blake and his poetry, Shakespear, Burns just whistle and i'll come to you my lad, Aldington all people are enemies (that.s right it.s a good book! i read it more than 10 years ago), Woolf a room of ones own, woolf does sound amaizing i really enjoy reading her books)), Remarque i remember more his night in lisbon rather than three friends, Bamboo in Japan that book just flew into my hands once in the library, Rowling, Rudyard Kipling, Folkner.s the sound and the fury, just dictionary sometimes is my best choice:), 1984, 1793 by Hugo, la rouche et le noir de Stendal, Dandelion wine and 451 farenheit by Ray bradbury, yes i have read loads of books and actually much much more than that and probably in the original. now i either listen an audiobook or tell stories by myself:)

PHILOSOPHY

Life is always only what you make of it.

Smile when it rains and if you're going through hell just keep going

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

spike milligan
a silly poem
said Hamlet to Ophelia i.ll draw a sketch of tree. what kind of pensil shal i use 2b ot not 2b?:)

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise. William Blake

Kipling.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;
If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings -- nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Life is Amazing!

"Thank you" after my concerts whenever i play on the streets or near the lakes or in a restaurant or singing on a festival people always come to me just to say a few words and to just say thank you. And ask me to sing more telling that i sing from the soul. That's quite something!
and dancing people when i play some music on a street. i prefer lakes- lake of zurich will always be one of my favourite places:)

growing own food. understanding plants and animals is amazing

"Thank you" from all the heart after i took away the pain from a person with some medical massage tecnique, They say i have a healing talent and i say you need to know what you are doing. I do. People who live in Canada came all the way just to meet me again so i can help them with their lower backs and necks and finaly do a proper massage therapy to them (just imagine that not even chiropractors or manual therapists couldn't help them!) and i already went away, but they still tried to come to my home in st. petersburg just to make sure i wasn't there.

Positive and intriguing Impression my art works make on people!

I saw that the world changes when you overcome your fears. i enjoyed the time i did rescue officer training and practiced some on the field. hanging on those ropes is never easy for me i'm skinny, but hanging on a big altitude is even less easy but i.m glad i did at least some it helped me to become who i wanted to be. i hitchiked 16360 km through 25 countries, 300-400 km by walking, 200 cars and many people on the way. i.m glad i did. my paintings are even in switzerland now. i played music around the world it feels like small but world tour. i learned several languages and some in just 8 hours. throughout all the 25 recent countries i tried to speak the language of the country, i learned foundational greek and polish and practiced the rest. but it.s only for the people who needs it. i.m not a monkey to demonstrate all the capabilities for you whenever you want. to speak a language in a few hours is possible.

i hitchhiked alone with a lot of equippment twice from st.petersburg to switzerland and from switzerland back to russia. around 3000 kms

Loving and open hearts of the people blooming all around! Thank you for reading all that it took me sometime to write it too!:)))

Teach, Learn, Share

You name it!

What I Can Share with Hosts

My time and skills
I'm a professional cat cuddler!!!:))) As i promised to write in my cv to a friend of mine so there you go:))

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine