🇺🇦 IMPORTANT STATEMENT 🇺🇦

Stop the war right now! Donate to Ukrainian Armed Forces and save innocent lives! Help Ukrainians, host them, talk to them, comfort them. People in the 21st century shouldn't go through the horrors of war and become refugees.

🤍❤️🤍 Belarus is not Russia but unofficially occupied by Putin since 2020 via the illegitimate regime of dictator Lukashenko who relies on bloody Russian money and tortures Belarusian people who are against him, his oppressive regime and this inhuman war.

💛💙 Ukraine is not Russia but has been invaded by Russian troops, not since the 24th of February 2022 but since February 2014 and Crimea annexation. The war is on for more than 8 years already, recently it's just escalated and the world saw the real face of Russia.

❌🇷🇺 “Russian world” and everyone who supports this war, imperialism, aggression and genocide of Ukrainian people can fuck off. If you're from Russia and have a strong anti-war, Putin's regime and tyranny position, then you can drop me a message and we'll discuss your situation.

🙏🏻🇺🇦 Ласкаво просимо до Варшави та Польщі! Якщо ви з України, можете писати мені українською, я чудово розумію цю мову і постараюся допомогти вам. Білоруси солідарні з українцями!

IN GENERAL

Still a young man originally from a small country in the middle of nowhere. Citizen of the world. Digital Nomad. Globetrotter. Groundhopper. Arsenal Belarus Supporters Club (ABSC) leader. Chant starter. Gooner since late 90s. Arsenal memorabilia collector. Captain of the amateur football team. Social networks adept. Beer, cider and wine enthusiast. Cat lover but adore all animals and nature in general. Occasionally writer and blogger.

Until the end of February 2018, I was in a long-term relationship for more than 7 years (from which we were living together for more than 5 years) with a girl who, as I thought, was supposed to be the only one for the rest of my life. It broke my heart completely and I’ve been going through depression and amhnemonia for quite a long period of time. Also I had an Asperger Syndrome and it progressed some time after that breakup into a Schizoid Personality Disorder (SPD) with an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

My mental health problems are almost not visible for people who don’t know me very well or with whom I don’t spend a lot of time together. It’s hard for me to socialise most of the time and every day is a battle but I keep my head up and try to do my best. Can't say that I like to talk a lot as it mostly depends on a subject of a discussion and overall situation. I prefer quiet talk face to face on the interesting topics over a loud parties for the most of the times. Because of all mentioned above I started to travel even more almost non stop so for more than 4 years I mostly lived nomadic way of life.

COVID changed my life once again as I've been forced to come back to Belarus and suddenly all travel plans were ripped apart. A half of a year later the presidential election campaign started in Belarus and everything changed once again: the elections has been stolen from us like our voices, hundreds of thousands of people went to protest... The rest is history: I've been shot with a rubber bullet into my left shoulder, got arrested during the protest actions and spent a few days in a real jail, emigrated to Cyprus and came back to Belarus. After countless hours spent together during this tough time I started to date a girl who I knew for 10+ years already and who was my close friend. Unexpectedly, got arrested again due to my political views and activism, spent another 2 weeks in jail and made a proposal to her in the evening right after I've been released on 11.11.2022 at 11.11. We got married on 22.02.2022 at 15.15 and the next morning the war in Ukraine started. We traveled around Belarus for some time but in May 2022 we've been forced to leave Belarus due to insecurity and continuing repressions. Now we live in Warsaw in Poland and travel together around the world with our little daughter Varvara (Barbara).

‼️ My MBTI personality type is ESTJ-A: https://www.16personalities.com/profiles/e280c104114b3

⁉️ If you don't know what this personality is like, read this please: https://www.16personalities.com/estj-personality

AS A HUMAN-BEING

I want people to be free in their movement around the globe, to fulfil their potential, and to live their lives without wars, revolutions, dictatorships and discrimination. I want to see the world without borders, visas, exploitation, rich and poor. I would like to think that I’m an open minded tolerant person who fits well the majority of different people. I’m okay with your nationality, colour of skin, gender, sex orientation, profession, religion, political views, food preferences, height, weight, lifestyle etc. I will be okay with your opinion and choices as long as you will be okay with mine. Mutual respect is a key.

AS A HOST

I've been welcomed by locals in many different countries and I feel it's right to pay back to the other travelers by opening my small place and helping them on their trips. I really enjoy hosting because I met amazing people and we had many good moments shared between us. I usually like to spend time with my guests. However, there're could be times when I may be quite busy with my own stuff or just need some time out. I'm trying to be a good host, but at the same time please don't whine if I'm not entertaining enough.

Lately I was getting more and more requests from people who just need a free place to sleep / city guide. A lot of them never hosted or even took a little bit of time to fill up their profiles. They copy and paste the same request and don't even take the time to read my profile and see if we have anything to share. Guys, wake up and keep in your mind that Couchsurfing was created to share experiences, stories, life, food, mentalities, trips etc. CS is going down sometimes and it's sad...

Basically, for me it’s not important either you considering to choose me just because of a free couch or you really want to know me better as a person. The reason is yours and I’m okay with any of this options so anyone can send me request. Obviously, I prefer to host experienced travelers with complete profiles who hosted other people too. Also I want to contribute into society by making the world a little bit better place where I want to live in: a world where people trust each other and help one another in their adventures.

Don’t concentrate on me. There are plenty of locals willing to show you the city. I don’t mind you meeting other CSs or / and friends while meeting or not meeting them myself. Don’t hesitate to tell me about your preferences to avoid awkward situations or misunderstandings.

If you want to get almost 100% “yes” from me (if I’m available to host at time you need of course) you can bring me a little gift from your own country as I’m a huge collector of different things from all over the world: football memorabilia, fridge magnets, little bells, coins, paper bills, coasters / bierdeckels / beermats. Beer, cider or wine — it’s always a pleasure to share with my guests.

AS A GUEST

Hopefully for everyone I’m very flexible guest. I’m adult independent man with his own interests who can care of himself. If my host has a free time to show me the city / hang out / spend time together — I’m very happy and glad to be in a good company. If not — I’m okay with this too and can explore all the interesting for me places by my own.

Having hosted a lot myself, I'm a very strong advocate of what I would call "sustainable Couchsurfing". Many hosts have already left Couchsurfing because of freeloading surfers and other reasons. When, I surf, I aim to be a responsible and considerate surfer so that my host will be motivated to continue hosting rather than otherwise.

In vast majority of the cases I can follow your schedule so it should be pretty easy to host me. Also usually I try to bring to hosts something from my homeland (if I’m coming directly from Belarus) or at least to come with a bottle of beer / cider / wine to make my visit more fun and memorable.

CONTACT INFORMATION

📨📧 nikitenko.artemiy@gmail.com; wellwod@gmail.com / @icloud.com.

📱🤍❤️🤍 +375 25 928-43-01 (old Belarusian cell phone number + Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber, FB Messenger, Signal — use while in Belarus but can be reached worldwide by incoming SMS / voice call).

📱🇵🇱 +48 572 565 699 (Polish cell phone number — use while in Poland and EU).

📱🇬🇧 +44 7724 373-816 (UK cell phone number — use while in UK).

📱🇺🇳 +44 7937 249-901 (International cell phone number — use while outside of Belarus / UK / EU).

SOCIAL NETWORKS

🌐 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artemiy-nikitenko/

🌐 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wellwod

🌐 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wellwod

🌐 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/wellwod

🌐 VK: https://www.vk.com/wellwod

IN MEDIA

📰 An article about my passion (in Russian): https://people.onliner.by/2017/06/24/arsenal-one-love

📰 Another one interview (in English): https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/news/it-remain-everyones-memory-local-13711503

📹 Another one interview (in Russian): https://youtu.be/apRvjGiMdZw?t=1310

📹 Another one interview (in Ukrainian/Russian): https://footballua.tv/ru/video/92124-studiya-live-ot-02-12-2018-15-30

📹 Another one interview (in Russian): https://youtu.be/vU0Rp-NAQxo?t=210

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

🗣 “World is a book and those who do not travel read only one page”.

It is full of friends we just don't know them yet. You can't even imagine how many people want to be your friend, to give a helping hand and recieve it, share interests, hobbies, plans, emotions, experiences, homes, lives and many more... That's how I live and travel.

Any city in the world is a foreign to you as long as there are no friends. They live there and know how to welcome you there in the best way possible. To live with friends is the best journey. It always makes you richer, creates connections and opens many hearts. You are truly welcomed in hundreds of corners of our planet not because of your money, but simply because of your personality.

I always dreamt about visiting as many places as possible and every single county in the world in general. I like to meet new people and make more friends all over the world. I’m fond of different sides of life, knowing other languages, cultures and lifestyles.

When I'm at home I love sharing my apartment with other travellers and travel though their stories. Even if I’m on my own travels I try to host other people remotely if it’s possible. I know how it feels to travel on a very low budget and the experience with the locals appears to be much more interesting.

I have been lucky to meet a lot of outstanding people around the world that changed me in some way and made me want to be the same with other travellers. Life is too beautiful for not sharing it with someone else!

🌍 My Travel Map: https://3pulse.com/wellwod/map

✈️ My Flight Map: https://my.flightradar24.com/wellwod

⚠️ About CS requests (in English): https://www.thertwguys.com/couchsurfing-couch-requests-accepted/

⚠️ На тему запросов на КС (по-русски): https://sam-sebe-columb.com/2015/01/couchsurfing.html

Interests

🔴⚪️🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Arsenal Football Club (UK, England, London) is everything to me — top of the list all day long in any circumstances. My heart and soul belong to this team and everything around it from the very early years of my life.

⚽️🏆🏟🥇 Football is my main passion. I was a part of Torpedo (Minsk) football academy for a few years when I was a kid but gave up with professional sport hardly even started it. Sport in general is very big part of my personality (doing by myself and in a groups, participating in different competitive and non competitive games, watching and attending different sport events in different countries and cities while traveling — groundhopping).

I also like and do as much as possible (all on amateur level):
🏃🏻‍♂️ running;
🏊🏻‍♂️ swimming;
🚴🏻‍♂️ cycling;
🥾 hiking;
🏀 basketball;
🏐 volleyball;
🏓 table tennis;
🎳 bowling;
♟ chess;
🃏 poker;
🎯 darts;
⚫️⚪️ go;
🏉 rugby (just watching);
🎾 tennis (just watching);
🏒 ice hockey (just watching);
🤾🏻‍♂️ handball (just watching).

I tried a few times in the past but never really succeed (need to make more effort and do it more frequently) in:
🧘🏻‍♂️ yoga (meditation);
🤸🏻‍♂️ gymnastics (stretching);
🎱 pool (different types);
🧗🏻‍♂️ climbing (indoor in a safe climbing centres with soft mats on the floor to prevent serious injuries);

🏋🏻‍♂️🤺🤽🏻‍♂️ I like to watch Olympic Games or any other World / European championships in many types of sport that I don’t take part in by myself (like powerlifting, fencing, water types of sport etc.)

🎿🏂⛷ I’m not really into winter sports (like snowboarding, skiing etc. which I think are pretty dangerous for humans health and life) but can watch it during winter Olympic Games or whatsoever.

🥊🥋🤼‍♂️ I was never interested in fighting types of sports (like boxing, karate, MMA or any other very physical and dangerous to humans health and life actions) so don’t even think I’ll be up to even watching anything like this.

🏈⚾️🏏 I don’t know the rules of some American (not only but mainly not typically European) types of sport (like American football or “eggball”, baseball, cricket etc) but tried to watch it a ew times — never succeed anyway or got really involved (interested).

🏄🏻‍♂️🏌🏻‍♂️🏇🏻🏹🚣🏻‍♂️ I’m interested in some expensive and exotic for me at the moment types of sport (like surfing, golf, horse riding, archery, kayaking) which I never watched (or would like to watch) but could be great to try it one day.

💻👨🏻‍💻📊📈💡 Information technology (IT) including blockchain, crypto, web 3, statistics, web development, marketing, advertising, PR, graphic design.

👔👨🏻‍💼💼💰🤝 Business development mostly in sales processes (mainly B2B, rarely B2C), investments, trading, passive income.

📱🙋🏻‍♂️📷📹🤳🏻 Photography (amateur, I would also like to try videography, video editing, proper blogging and content crating in future).

🗺👨🏻‍✈️✈️🍀🧳 Traveling (globetrotting — the world is a book and those who not travel read only one page — remember that).

🏞👨🏻‍🌾🏜🏔🏕 Nature (camping and exploring hidden places of the Earth: mountains, lakes, rivers, national parks, deserts and many other wonderful masterpieces of our lovely planet).

😻🐈🐕🐇🐾 Animals (mostly cute ones like cats obviously, dogs, rabbits etc. but adore almost all the species apart from a very few not very pleasant exceptions like spiders 🕷🕸, snakes 🐍🦎, mosquitoes 🦟🦗 etc.)

🧠👨🏻‍⚕️👀🗣👂🏻 Psychology (mental health, human relations, reasons for different types of behaviour in different life situations etc.)

🎓👨🏻‍🎓✍🏻📜🔍 History (my big passion and degree in this sphere, worlds history and in particular all of the regions of it, to know the past in case not to make the same mistakes in future, geopolitics etc.)

🌍 👨🏻‍🏫 ☄️🌋🔥 Geography (the creation of our planet, natural processes inside and outside of it, climate changes etc.)

🏛🕵🏻‍♂️🏰🏯⛩ Architecture (all types of buildings seem interesting for me, different architectural details, styles and stories about it in many countries all over the world etc.)

🖼👨🏻‍🎨🎨🎭🎎 Art (mostly classical and traditional but from time to time I also interested in underground and modern museums, art galleries, theatres and acting performances etc).

📚📕📖📰👓 Literature (more about it in the specific section below).

🎬🎥🎞📼🍿 Cinema (more about it in the specific section below).

🎧🎙🎼🎤🎶 Music (more about it in the specific section below).

• animals
• cats
• literature
• photography
• running
• technology
• movies
• traveling
• investing
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• sports
• soccer
• swimming
• history
• psychology
• hitchhiking
• adventure travel
• nature
• couchsurfing
• health
• healthy food
• healthy eating
• healthy lifestyle
• playing football
• cycle
• globetrotting
• cycle touring
• run
• watching football
• arsenal
• groundhopping
• swim
• arsenal fc
• health and fitness
• hiking in the mountains
• globetrotter

Music, Movies, and Books

🎧🎙🎼🎤🎶 Ed Sheeran, James Arthur, Coldplay, Muse, Imagine Dragons, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Beatles, Queen, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Guns N' Roses, Sex Pistols, Black Sabbath, Scorpions, Elton John, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Dave Koz, Bob Marley, Eminem. Classic and jazz overall are very good to my ears. A little bit of rock / pop / rap / reggae music when I’m in the right mood. No electro / techno / club / any other similar “ears and brains killing” type of music for me!

🎬🎥🎞📼🍿 Superhero movies! Marvel and DC Universes. Comedy, documentary, history movies, drama and fantasy are nice too. Basically I like very different types of movies. No horrors is the only rule!

📚📕📖📰👓 Classic literature and books about traveling / adventures / cats are mostly outstanding and always a good choice. Lord Of The Rings, Hobbit, Harry Potter and some other fantasy / fairytale books are interesting for me, sometimes comics but not really often. Historical books and documents in general to add some knowledge into my head.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

🥶🌨🌬🐈🐾 Once in the cold winter night I picked up from the street a homeless ginger cat on my way to home. Now he's my best friend and the whole world to me.

Teach, Learn, Share

🤍❤️🤍 I can teach Belarusian language, culture, lifestyle.

🔴⚪️ Provide a lot information about the Arsenal Football Club, football and sports in general.

🌏🔎 I would like to learn a few new languages, to know about other cultures and lifestyles in different places of our world.

🧘🏻‍♂️🤸🏻‍♂️ I was always curious about yoga and meditation, tried it a few times but never succeeded in it so I would enjoy learning those things from someone experienced during my travels.

🗺✈️ Also I can share my life and travel experience and would like to be shared with yours.

What I Can Share with Hosts

🤍❤️🤍 Souvenirs from Belarus (if I’m coming directly from my own country and not traveling for a long time changing multiple places), our language, culture, traditions and lifestyle.

🗺 Some stories and tips from my numerous previous travels in different countries.

I can also help with:
🧹 house cleaning;
🧽 dish washing;
🧺 laundering;
🛍 shopping;
🍼 babysitting;
🐩 pets carrying;
🛎 other things upon request.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Monaco, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, San Marino, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Wales, Åland Islands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belarus, Cyprus, Georgia, Poland, United Kingdom