Hey guys!
I'm Kate – born is Russia, raised in Berlin, Germany and now finishing my Master's in a beautiful city in eastern Germany. I enjoy meeting my friends for a beer or Gin Tonic, visiting galleries & theaters as well as music concerts. I'm a really bad cook, but I love vegetarian food & cheese is my favorite thing in the world. I enjoy meeting new faces and hearing their stories.
One of my main interests is technology and the startup scene, mainly focused on IoT and smart cities.
In my spare time I like diving, watching random TV-Shows, produce short films and well, drink beer.
I'm an energetic, open-minded honest and quite sarcastic human. I can be loud, but I also can be shy and quite. Aaaaaand 420 friendly.

Thats it. No, not really. But figure it out yourself ;)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I tried couchsurfing in 2009 for the first time and it was amazing! I love getting to know cultures and listen do adventures people explored.

Interests

• writing
• literature
• design
• graphic design
• dancing
• beer
• coffee
• vegetarian
• partying
• technology
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• scuba diving
• communications
• iot
• startups

Music, Movies, and Books

Most of the time I love listening to neo-classic, it's just beyond amazing. Federico Albanese, Grandbrothers, Nils Frahm – you should give them a try! In clubs I prefer techno and deep house, it's Beyonce, TLC and The Weeknd in the shower and german Hip Hop as a boost for confidence.

Movies. Probably also all of the stuff the basic hipster human would list, I guess. My secret obsession are catastrophe (trash) movies, because CGI there gives me life.

I didn't find munch time reading books for fun in the last couple of years, but I like Russia's sad boys club, even though "war & peace" was a drag to read. French boys come second: Beigbeder & Sartre, but it's actually a crime to put them in the same sentence. And Wittgenstein, Byung-Chul Han & Fromm in hope to find answers about this funny thing called life.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Best thing so far was definitely my semester abroad in the Philippines!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Philippines, Russian Federation