Actually I don't even remember how I got this dream – I never saw surfing in real life, probably just in some movies and pictures in the Internet. See, I grew up in the small suburb town in the Moscow region, my father was working in the military service and mother in the military tribunal. I doubt they knew anything about surfing at all. So I have no idea where it came from but I've been dreaming about it over 2 years before I actually tried it. I had no idea about surfing in Europe, I have never heard about Peniche and everything I knew about Portugal was that Chistiano Ronaldo is from Madeira (not even a continental part). I was planning my first surf trip to Sri Lanka, but when everything was ready to go my life has made its adjustments – I couldn't go and my best friend went there without me and learned surfing.