Marina Chigirina

Concerned citizen, Environmentalist, Foodie, Photographer, World traveler

'I am just a simple russian girl, I've got vodka in my blood so I dance with brown bears and my soul is torn apart' - may be you know this song) I was born on the very North of Russia, where the White Sea is. Finished school and University (Linguistics) there and ...left the place and started travelling. I saw white bears in the Arctic, huge spiders deep in Thai jungle and drank coffee on half crossroads in the world. But my favourite place on the Earth is of course my home country.

Biking, cooking (and eating), travelling, dancing and doing all this in English.

As far as I am currently working for one private museum on week-ends I came with an idea that people shall change their attitude to museums in general. Many people think that a museum is something boring, old, covered with dust, may be even stinky and the very word 'museum' can scare them away: 'A museum? No, thank you, I'd better watch a movie'. But try to think of it as of a time machine; this is a cool place where you can learn stuff, see stuff (and sometimes even touch stuff). Not every museum is made of walls with pictures on them and chairs in the middle of its rooms. There are so many really cool ones! Museum of parfume, museum of human body, museum of musical instruments, museum of bags...add a good guide and people do not want to leave at the end of excursion!! I recently had 2 girls who came to listen to me twice - in russian and in english. That was cute!!

Administrative Assitant, Consecutive interpretation, first aid and CPR, SOLAS, SSI Open Water Diver, Technical Translation & Interpretation, TOEFL