"Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary"

Hi y'all!
I'm Timur, an eternal student with a never-ending urge to learn new things. Within the past seven years I've hopped on from Russia to Greece to Germany before finally landing in the lovely city of Torino where I'm currently studying artificial intelligence. I value kindness, curiosity, adventurousness and spontaneity. The brass sounds of New Orleans jazz always make my heart groove and knees bounce and it's one of my dear dreams to travel around the American South

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

We all are wandering story-tellers and I'd be curious to hear yours and share mine

Interests

I'd describe myself as a curious explorer interested in whatever the outside world has to offer. I quite enjoy teaching and hope it's going to an integral part of whatever it is that I'm going to do in the future :) Jazz music and swing dancing make my face glow with a smile and fill my heart with joyful happiness. I'm making humble attempts to play the piano and like making things by hands. Learning to play the harmonica and tap dance rank pretty high in my to-do list

• cooking
• reading
• jazz
• piano
• teaching
• mathematics
• nature
• lindy hop
• balboa

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
Boris Pasternak, Daniil Kharms, Mikhail Zotschenko, Ilf and Petrov, Paul Auster, Julian Barnes, Lewis Carroll
Reading Oscar Wilde is always a pleasure - he plays language like a musical instrument.
I love reading books out loud

Music:
Tuba Skinny, James Booker, Jon Batiste, ALA.NI, Monsieur Perine, St. Paul And The Broken Bones, Leon Bridges, Benjamin Clementine, Gregory Porter, Trombone Shorty, Bessie Smith, the Melodic, Stornoway, Joan Baez, Gina Chavez, Fierce Flowers

Movies:
Dead Poets Society (Oh Captain! My Captain!), Good Will Hunting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, A Single Man, Au revoir les enfants, Her, Dallas Buyers Club, Boyhood, A Serious Man, The Room (I dare you watch it till the end).
Oh, and I absolutely love The Rocky Horror Picture Show! (Leeet's do the Time Warp agaaain!)

A bit of Fry and Laurie, QI (Stephen Fry is love), Monty Python, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Whose Line Is It Anyway

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Moving to Greece was pivotal

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd be happy to teach you some lindy hop! And learning-wise - whatever makes your eyes spark and heart bump

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States