CURRENT MISSION

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.

ABOUT ME

Hey guys! If you are here on CS site, I hope we've got smth in common already :)
I'm Vera from Moscow, I'm doing my studies in journalism as well as some researches in cinema & art. If you need a mega-brief description, let's say "Travels. Foreign languages. Art". These are the basic elements of my being.

I'm a curious and friendly girl who wants to live every day as passionately as possible.
I wish all of you good luck with your journeys!

PHILOSOPHY

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Usually I surf not host, but I'm trying to be a friendly guest and create this so-called "energy-exhange" with the people I'm staying.
But I am open to requests as a host as well.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Saint-Petersburg, Minsk, - 2010, 2011
Budapest, Hungary - june 2014
Piacenza, Italy - june 2014
Nice, France - june 2014
Toulon, France - june 2014
Bologna, Italy - august 2014
Florence, Italy - august 2014
Rome, Italy - august 2014
Angouleme, France - march 2015
Warsaw, Poland - june 2016
Berlin, Germany - july 2016
Porto, Portugal - july 2016
Yaroslavl, Russia - november 2016
Kostroma, Russia - november 2016
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia - january 2017
Kazan, Russia - january 2017

Interests

Personally, I'm interested in art journalism, especially in theory and history of the cinema. I enjoy visiting exhibitions, galleries & museums in new cities. But a man I knew told me once that you can only feel the soul of the city walking, getting lost and talking to people there (not watching the statues and paintings) - and I completely agree with him!
As well, I'm a fan of travelling topic, sometimes I like to talk about politics and compare social problems in different countries.
And the other thing I'm eager to is learning foreign languages and drowning in this deep sea of the other unknown culture :)

Summarizing - all the honest thoughtful and ineteresting discussions are welcome!

• arts
• culture
• books
• walking
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• history
• journalism
• languages
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
"The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
"Les liaisons dangereuses"
"Vanity Fair" by William Thackeray
"L'etrangere"
"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

All novels of Isabel Allende, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa.

Generally I like Scandinavian movies, some earlier films of Lars Von Trier; I adore Ingmar Bergman, I'm interested in Xavier Dolan, Adrian Lyne, David Fincher, Hal Hartley and many many other directors, it`s an endless topic to discuss! :)

I like music, you're welcome to share it with me, I don`t have any definite tastes.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lots of! My first trip to Paris on my own at 18.
Crazy hitchhiking journey Hungary-Italy-France-Germany (with my first CS eperience abroad).
My first hitchiking when I was 16.
The first time I spoke to native speakers.

There are so many great people that I've met, how kind and friendly they were to me. Amazing things happen really often if you can notice them!

Teach, Learn, Share

Well, surely I can teach you to speak Russian a bit. Or French, if you'd like to (if only you're not French!!! :) I'm pretty good at advising films and books. I've got a lot of stories that are worth to be told - sad, funny, interesting, inspiring, any kind. Of course, I'll try to show you my best at shaping your opininon about Moscow. Who knows, maybe I can teach you to see our life in the other way?

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation