It's a great favor for one person to host people in their home. I know the value and importance of that, so I try to make the requests for a stay as personalized as possible. I don't feel comfortable If I don't. Don't surprise if you see lots of paragraphs in my request. Sometimes I need to send unpersonalized requests too if travel is very soon.

One of the ways I return these favors is to give back to the community what I have taken. I try to host as many surfers as possible, but since I live with my family, not everyone in my family are available. In the future, when I live alone, I can host surfers every week, I enjoy hosting too.

I keep in touch with the people I met on Couchsurfing in the future. One day we will surely meet again (I love traveling hahahh!). And after I build my life, I will repay these favors with much more (promise)!

I usually like to stay with hosts for two nights. One of the purposes of my travel is to get to know people. I don't want to visit a city I am curious about and then spend the night for free. I'm not here for that. I want to build a network. In the future, I want to be in contact with the people I meet here and I want to meet them again years later, be helpful for them, getting help from them. So staying one day is too little to get to know my host. On the other hand three nights, I think, can start to become uncomfortable for both people.

I'm pretty non-judgemental person. Trying to understand people before judging. Because I believe nothing is black and white in life. What we are trying to do is to choose the best option from the selections we have no control over.

I believe I'm also very deep thinker. Not proud about it but I see reasons inside reasons and maybe that's why I'm interested with human mind and improve human communication with technology.

If you are interested in personality theories:
My MBTI is INxJ. My temperament is phlegmatic. Enneagram 5.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'll be honest. I started Couchsurfing out of necessity when I was 18 years old. And sometimes Couchsurfing felt like a burden to me since I'm an introvert. But a lot has changed in 2 years. Now I know how valuable human relationships are. I know how important it is to know people. At this point, it's not like I'm using couchsurfing to travel, but it's like I'm traveling to use couchsurfing. When I think about a city that I visited, I remember my host and how we spent time more than the city.

Couchsurfing provides an excellent opportunity to enjoy travel without going through the mainstream tourist routes and just watching how the tourism business makes money on you. That really immerse you in the culture and life of different countries, get to know the inhabitants of these countries, find out their opinion about what is happening, and the way people live here. Or spend time differently than regular excursions.
Couchsurfing also allows you to make new meets around the world, communicate with people from all over the world. Thus it makes our horizons wider, it allows us to better understand the world in which we live.

*** Surfers, please read home information. There are some important notes.

I'm feeling very bored if I don't use Couchsurfing on my travelings.

Interests

I love science fiction! My interest is 'future'. I'm not a grounded person at all. Always thinking about future and can't satisfied with our current times. This field of interest creates a bond between me and science-fiction, technology.

People think I'm a nerd. But I think I'm more of a synthesis of hippie and nerd. My mom has a bohemian style, she is a doctor assistant. And my father is an engineer with a rigid logic. I feel like I'm a mixture of them.

I'm coding semi-professionally, but I can say it's also my hobby!

• technology
• science
• learning languages
• science fiction
• learning new things

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:

Reading is my long-standing hobby. I read at least 50 books per year since I was around 10. Unfortunately last 2 years couldn't read that much.

Dune is my favorite book. Read it 6 times.

I also love Three Body Problem and I don't know if I've read more thought-provoking fictional book than this book.

Philip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, Asimov, Andy Weir, William Gibson among my favorite writers.

Music:

Lorn. Synthwaves. Every music that makes me feel I'm in the future.

Also I love 'Empire of The Sun'.

Movie:

Would like to answer with two quotes from my favorite movie:

"I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate."

And,

+ Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?

- Sure.

+ Have you ever retired a human by mistake?

- No.

+ But in your position, that is a risk.

It's Blade Runner :)

Also I love Transformers since I'm very little. I had so many Transformers toys.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Backpacked when I was 18. Hitchhiked across France for a month. Visited 9 countries within months.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach to you how to:

• find Mars with your telescope easily!

• hack your neighboor's speakers or their Google TV. You just need a laptop or wi-fi stick.

Share:

• Would definitely like to share my ideas about future and listen to your ideas about future.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Turkey