Hi!
I'm Polina
Now I'm living in Saint-Petersburg

I interested in cultures of other countries and people

I used to use snail mail. It was amazing experience of communication with people
Now I prefer meet in person, it is more exciting))

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

This summer my friend Marina and I traveled around Finland (Helsinki, Jyväskylä, Tampere and Turku). We studied in the Jyväskylä Summer School. Couchsurfing gave us a lot of great experiences. We met amazing people and learned Finland from the inside.
If we lived in a hostel, the trip would be tourist. We felt that we live (not only travel) in Finland.

Interests

I like learning, reading and drawing (watercolor)

• arts
• education
• vegetarian
• anime
• traveling
• drawing
• sociology
• cultural immersion
• nature
• vegetarian food
• vegetarianism
• different cultures
• handmade

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Hurts, Kodaline, Keaton Henson, Florence and the Machine, London Grammar

Books:
"War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
"The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov
"We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin
"The Gray House" by Mariam Petrosyan
"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
"Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Walden; or, Life in the Woods" by H.D. Thoreau
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde

Films by Hayao Miyazaki, "Into the Wild"

TV series: Game of Thrones, Black Mirror, Downton Abbey

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'm a vegetarian for 4 years

I've seen the northern lights

I used to get up at 5 a.m.

I worked at the FIFA World Cup (2018)

I was in the Hermitage three times in one month (I tried to see the whole exposition of the museum)

Teach, Learn, Share

I make notebooks, postcards and other hand-made things))

I study sociology in the university

I'm learning how to learn

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can teach you Russian, ; tell about Russian classic writing, provincial life in small town and Russian education system (if you really want to hear about it)); make origami/postcard/notebook/drawing for you))

Also I can teach you how to cross-stitch

I can tell you about Saint-Petersburg and life here (sights, vegetarian cafes, coffee houses, the Hermitage), about Vologda and my home-town (monasteries, Russian villages).

Countries I’ve Visited

Finland, Russian Federation

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, Russian Federation