I come from a good family: my father taught me to be responsible and organized and my mother showed me how important it is to follow your dreams and never give up…
I have a Specialist degree in Philology (Linguistics & Literature) and currently am a graduate student in Linguistics program (English & French: teaching, translating and interpreting)…
I work as a teacher/ tutor – in hope to help people in pursuing their dreams to speak a foreign language and to make my contribution to cross-cultural communication…
In my spare time I do Irish dancing, play the piano, knit, read...
I also have a cat named Asrta…
Overall, I am a very open-minded, cultured, creative, modest and understanding person.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like and support the idea of being able to stay with everyday people instead of hotels, which are the same as anywhere else, to learn about another culture from within and to get a better understanding of different ways of living...

Interests

• literature
• knitting
• music
• piano
• languages
• art
• irish dancing

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: very diverse - form Bach and Chopin to rock and Irish Feis music. Love The Beatles.
Movies: Star Trek.
Books: "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville; "The Idiot" and "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky; "No Exit" by Jean-Paul Sartre; stories about Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle; "1984" by George Orwell; "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley; "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin; "Doctor Faustus" by Thomas Mann...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Learnt to walk again, moreover, to do Irish dancing after severe trauma whereas doctors would try to convince me I’d stay lame for the rest of my life…

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to knit, play the piano, speak Russian and do Irish dancing...
I love learning about different cultures and other people...

What I Can Share with Hosts

My cooking and listening skills – can cook you some Russian or Indian meals (such as upma) and listen about your day…
Have a peculiar habit of cleaning and organizing things…

Countries I’ve Visited

Ireland, Montenegro, Tunisia, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, United States