My name Ateş, 21 years old, born in Istanbul, Turkey

GENERAL INFO
>Sports addicted, especially swimming. Also old professional and national swimmer. So it means i've been raised by sportsmen discipline.

>Materials engineering student on bachelor degree

>Living in Ostrava,Czech Republic for international student purpose until July

>Camper (where is my tent, is my home)

>Have one twin brother

>Old member of Galatasaray (maybe you've heard of it)

>I love animals, all of them. And i have one cat, he is like my son to me.

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ADDITIONAL INFO
>Beer lover, i will be pleased to drink local beer with my hosts :)

>Master skills at Guitar hero

FUNNY INFO
My name means "fire" in my language :)

***For more energic and brief description, I am an erasmus student with full of willing to travel as long as and as far as i can.

Here you can find my FB page, facebook.com/ates.gosterislioglu

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

How did i get involved in CS?
Last summer i was travelling with my brother and one friend, only with our tents. And we were far away from home. We ended up in a big city of Turkey which is İzmir. As you can image it is impossible to build a tent in a metropol city, so we were sitting in one park desperately waiting for the morning to come. And somehow we met with a group, they were the all couches of izmir having a meeting. They welcomed us to the meeting and offered us cookies :)
At the end one of group members hosted us that night, to be hobest he rescued us :)
That day i realized that how important thing is to meet people during travels and helping each other these kind of situations. Since then i hadn't any opportunity to use Cs neither as a guest nor as a host. But i am looking forward for it :)

My expectations from CS;

When i'm travelling during day walking around streets taking some photos with famous buldings does really not help me to comprehend the culture. I think the best way is to meet local people and spending time with them, so in this aspect CS is an awsome opportunity for achieving my goal. And also dont forget that i am just a student with low allowance, i never say no to a free accommodation :)

Interests

>Swimming at least twice in a week.
>Travelling and exploring around.
>Night running, is best way for thinking efficient
>Learning languages, i am trying on French and German these days.
>Drawing figures with charcoal.
>Tasting local food when i travel around and trying to cook them by myself.
>Reading whatever i find :)
>Exploring musics.

• animals
• cats
• culture
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• running
• walking
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• drawing
• guitar
• camping
• sports
• swimming
• engineering
• languages
• study abroad

Music, Movies, and Books

I am okay with listening all kinds of music but to be honest i am a bit close to soft rock.

Usually interested in classical world literature and historical books. I admire Shakespeare!

and for the movies Sci-Fi is my favorite

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Swum from Asia to Europe within Bosphorus in 2015 summer

Getting wasted in October Fest 2015

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach how to cook some Turkish dishes, most probably you know how famous is Turkish cuisine, i mean we are feeding almost the entire Europe :)

And i am open minded to learn all the things from all the people around the world, such as their languages, cultures, life styles, their philosophy. And i really like listening memories, so i will be listening your all memories patiently :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can offer to my hosts
Culturel exchange, not only for my culture but the cultures that i've seen on my travels.
My friendship, i think its the most important one, we should be friends to feel comfortable during stays.
Also i can cook delicious dishes from our world wide famous cousin.

P.S. for my hosts, i want you to know that you will be always welcomed in my home in Istanbul.

And especially i can offer Turkish delight :) (its famous turkish sweet, you can search it on google)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Turkey