ABOUT ME

Hi there!

I'm Mie ['Mi-ə]. I study Russian language, culture and intellectual history in various places, currently in England. However, I'm not just into Russia(n), I generally like soaking up languages like gummy bears soak up vodka. I enjoy traveling almost as passionately as I hate the occasionally required visa procedures. I'm good at listening and asking questions, so eventually you will probably have to stop me.

I have a weird and obscure need to see Central Asia, eventually, something which studying Russian doesn't necessarily exclude. Luckily. I assume it's the idea of wild horses and barren landscapes that has yet to be replaced with an image of radioactive villages and post-soviet dictatorships.

In general I am down to earth and easy-going, I love meeting new people and seeing new places, but I also like to stay somewhere for a more extended period of time to take in more of one place, rather than little of many places. I don't smoke, I don't carry around pets, I have been told I laugh in my sleep, but apart from that I think I am a pretty safe bet for a couch surfer.

PHILOSOPHY

Trust - but caffeinate!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I started out by hosting couch surfers when I was living with some friends in Saint Petersburg, who introduced me to the concept. I have couch surfed little myself but hosted people in various places on many occasions. I enjoy meeting new people and staying with someone or hosting them provides a much better insight into a given culture, than just having an impersonal hotel room somewhere.

Interests

Advanced bread-baking and coffee-making, nerdy language learning, horseback riding, book-reading, shower-singing and/or dancing, and other things that I'm not necessarily particularly good at, but that may be done pretty much no matter the location!

• pets
• horses
• culture
• books
• singing
• dancing
• coffee
• baking
• reading
• traveling
• equestrian
• history
• languages

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Armenia, Cambodia, Chile, China, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Japan, Latvia, Mongolia, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, France, Ireland, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States