Hi everyone, I am Benjamin,
I am originally an Iranian from Iran but have been traveling for past 25 years now.
After having lived in Turkey for 7 years, [I, as a rule, live for 7 years in each country that I visit, to say that, so far, I’ve lived & worked as an instructor with an orphanage in Tajikistan for 6-7 years, have worked with private schools, and as a translator with United Nation in Northern Iraq for 7 years and have lived & worked with some language courses and private schools in Turkey for 7 years] moved to the beautiful country Georgia about 3 years ago.
While tutoring languages & working as a hiking guide [I frequently go to the nature as men go to the churchs, mosques or temples and I hike in the Nature in the fashion in which men pray their prayers in their temples] in the gorgeous mountainous regions of Caucasus, Kazbegi/სტეფანწმინდა, I, at the sametime, am actively engaged in translating Persian sufic poems from Persian into Turkish, endevearing to deepen my own understanding of Hasidic literature, studying Eastern Christian mysticism, ''Hesychasm'' and am working on a project of writing a book, and am translating a novel from Persian into Turkish as well.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

_ I strongly bleieve that each human being is an unique being by whom I can be enlightened, from whom I can learn something uniquely new, and thus being transmuted, be a better virsion of myself.
_ To improve my linguistic skills.
To learn more of cuture, history and mentality of people from other parts of the world.

Interests

Exchange conversations

• poetry
• yoga
• meditation
• hiking
• camping
• storytelling

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
_ from the world of Hinduism] : Bhagavad Gita, The Upanishads,
_from the world of Mahayana Buddhism] Dhammapada
_ from the world of Sufism:The Mantiq al-tair (=Language of the Birds) Masnavi of Rumi. The Walled Garden of Truth or The Hadiqat al Haqiqa of Hakim Sanai

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Beginning from the border of Bulgaria, by walking-hichhiking in intervals and working for few days in return for food and pocket money, I, at the age of 21 set out on a long journey, walking all the way to the border of Turkey-Iran, from border of Iran in the same manner, to the border of Pakistan.
From Sistan and Baluchestan province of Pakistan to Lahur and Aibtabad, where having visited and worked for few monhts, I then walked all the way to the gorgous region of Gilgit.
Having worked in a bakery in return for some amount of paket money, I walked-hichhiked to the Afghanistan, having worked as a translator with a Turkish construction company for few monhts, headed to the mesmerisingly beautiful ''Pamir'' of Tajikistan.
Spent 6 months there, hanging out with Ismailites, I moved to Dushanbeh city, Tajikistan and my 3-year-long jearney ended there whereupon I settled down and began working as an instructor with an orphanouge.

Relatively recently, in Georgia: hiking to Truso valley, Kazbegi glacier, Juta mountain, Tsdo mysterious village, Gveleti waterfall and Pansheti carbonated mineral water spring and the most difficult one, the-three-day hiking to the glacial Kelitsadi Lake

Teach, Learn, Share

I can share my linguistic knowlage with guests and can help them visiting places around that tourists don't know about.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My linguistic knowledge and hiking experiences in Kazbegi
I might expect my guests, of course if they are willing, to tutor my online students.
To teach me, if I don't know their languages at all, the alphabets of their languages.
And share their knowladge of healthy-eating/properly cooking.

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Georgia, Tajikistan, Turkey