CURRENT MISSION

Not to kill the child in me.

ABOUT ME

I am an broadminded and laid back person who is eager to experience anything in life to make the most of it. I am enthusiastic to learn different cultures, ideas, ways of lives, and to discover whatever is unfamiliar.

PHILOSOPHY

I believe each person is unique and the only way to know them is to simply talk to them. To live, I need to satisfy myself. To satisfy myself, I need to reach a level of ideas, which is possible only when I leave all my envies and fears behind and experience each unique person by myself. Besides that, I'm a nature lover. I think, in our age, we live a life that the mother nature doesn't approve and gets angry with. I personally try to integrate with the nature and understand it more.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

While I was working at a language school as an English teacher, I met the most adventurous man I've ever known in my life. He was also teaching English and there wasn't a place on the west side of Turkey that he didn't see. His travelling stories became the main source for me and, of course, CouchSurfing was mentioned!

Interests

As a literature student, reading books and discussing anything about books are my principal interests. I am interested in art movements -especially those of the 20th century- history, architecture, cinema, and philosophy. I am also an amateur musician, playing guitar and piano, and making music on computer, and interested in musicology and the history of music.

• arts
• books
• literature
• architecture
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• teaching
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Musicians and bands I like:

John Cage
Eric Satie
Philip Glass
Devendra Banhart
Fleet Foxes
Grizzly Bear
Radiohead
Björk
The Smiths
Skalpel
Supersilent
Amon Topbin
Autechre
Beirut
Yann Tiersen
Pink Floyd
Sigur Ros
Tom Waits
Tindersticks
Joy Division
Cat Power
Nirvana

Books I like:

Ulysses
Trilogy of Beckett
Heart of the Darkness
The Stranger
The Brothers Karamazov
Notes from Underground
Journey to the End of the Night
Catcher in the Rye
Walden

Movies I like:

Before Sunrise
Le Feu Follet
The Dreamers
The Double Life of Veronica
Reconstruction
Down by Law
The Three Colours Trilogy
The Shining
The Science of Sleep
In the Mood for Love
Enter the Void
Annie Hall
Donnie Darko

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Macedonia, Netherlands, Serbia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Turkey