I am so confused about everything, but always having fun and always learning a something. I would love to be a bird.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Why wouldn't I? Being able to meet new people and travel the world is a dream.

Interests

I am about to finish school and I realized I don't know anything about life yet. I'm just wandering around trying to find something I like enough not to have an existencial crisis every other day. Haven't succeeded at that... I've learned a lot of fun things in the way tho. My favourites as of now; scenic and plastic arts. Everyday I get a little bit better :).

As for my professional career, I studied biomedical engineering and I am doing my bachelor's thesis in Bogazici University in Turkey. My project intends to provide people with amputations the opportunity to feel again with the help of Virtual Reality and electrical microstimulation to the cerebral cortex. Don't let the fancy Black Mirror name fool you, tho. I spend most of my time crying while the project is rendering or compilating.

• poetry
• jazz
• skateboarding
• engineering
• circus
• biking
• techno
• contemporary dance
• watercolor

Music, Movies, and Books

Recently, a very good friend of mine asked for the most relevant artists in my life. Question to which I hesitated over 20 min and finally answered with a solid: "I think Random Access Memories (Daft Punk) and Reflektor (Arcade Fire) are two of the biggest masterpieces of the 21st century. I don't have any proofs but I also don't have any doubts. It's music to which you can dance to, you can listen to it when you cry, when you are lying in your bed at night asking yourself who you are, when you are having sex, when your on the bus by yourself heading to a new city, as I am right now...

Books:

The unbearable lightness of being. By Milan Kundera. The pages in this book looked directly through my eyes and into my soul. It showed me a lesson about myself I will never forget.

Arráncame la Vida. By Angeles Mastretta. A glimpse of how being in love in Mexico feels like.

Currently reading Even Cowgirls get the Blues by Tom Robbins.

Movies:

The necessary death of Charlie Countryman, ever since I watched that movie I've been wanting to go to Bucharest.

Her, I love sci fi and I am kind of cheesy also.

I suppose there's much more relevant content to me in this list but this are the ones that I can think of as of now.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In the first day of 2018 a confused purple heron decided to interrupt it's migration winter flight to settle in a little park in the suburbs of Mexico City. By chance, young Alejandro had also decided to spend New year's eve without anyone elses company but his dog's, Bilbo. That day this three became friends and two weeks later the heron disappeard. Alejandro thought It might have been just an illusion of his brain.

In summer of 2018, Alejandro was living in an indigenous community in the mountains of Mexico teaching biology and arts. For his arts course, Alejandro decided to do a class about performance, he shaved his head and proceeded to ask his students to surprise him. The outcome was something not even Marina Abramovic would've come up with. As a result of the controversy in the (amazingly brilliant) students' performances, Alejandro was expelled of the conservative community for "seeding evil in their children"

In December of 2018, a curious man offered Alejandro to travel to Guatemala with him the next week. None of them were really sure of what they were doing since they didn't have any money, they just had a Cello, a Guitar and a couple of Mexican songs that they wanted to play in mind. Music gave them food, shelter and fun for over a week.

In the last day of 2018 the purple heron was back...

Teach, Learn, Share

I live to learn and teach. I've worked multiple times as a highschool teacher and it's definitely the most satisfying job I've had. Due to my degree I have a lot of knowledge in general science and math, understanding existence is a big part of every day for me, so the methodical approach is obviously never enough. I am an avid interpreter of the human feeling. I don't have a degree in psychology but there is not a single time I don't question myself in regards to my behavior and it's direct relation to my position in society and nature.

I'm kind of a fast learner so I've developed a lot of abilities throughout my life, whether it is for boredom or fun. There's only a handful of activities (besides all the academic stuff) in which I consider myself experienced enough to provide some useful advice: music, solo dancing, skateboarding, drawing, not listening to authority and ironically, teaching.

I concieve learning as an undeniably bilateral flux, for both parties of the learning process learn and teach at the same time. I also understand learning as a never ending process I think that even the most amateur learner can teach something new to an advance learner. Therefore I am all ears. I am also really interested in in learning how to cook, traveling tips and pretty much anything you are talented at. Let's share.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook for you. (lower your expectations)
I can play music for you. (Instrument not included)
I can be your friend. (quality warrant included)
I can draw your portrait. (I bet you are beautiful)

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Guatemala, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, Turkey