Hi! I am quite a calm, easy-going, affectionate person once you get past my layers of shyness, awkwardness, anxiety and loneliness:D human, more on the introverted side, simply INFP. I love movies, books, travels, long walks, nature, birdwatching, animals, postcards and stamps most. When I’m not travelling, I like staying at home and spending time watching a good movie, reading, studying languages or baking. Feel free to drop a line if you happen to visit Turkey.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet people from all over the world and break my shyness and to see as much of the world as possible. The more you travel, the more you feel and understand. It is a great opportunity to know such kind people and make new friendships and have a much closer inside view of the places and cultures.

I am so grateful to anyone who is able to host me because you help with my quest to see the whole world:) When I am home, I try my best to accept the couch requests because I would like to return all the hospitality that I have received from amazing people around the world.

I would like to express my sincere thanks to my hosts once again:

Oliga - Tiraspol🇲🇩
Yuriy - Izmaïl🇺🇦
Sergiy - Kiliya🇺🇦
Marcy&Tom - Cosăuți🇲🇩
Sadig - Bakı🇦🇿
Elvin - Qax🇦🇿
Mohsen - Tbilisi🇬🇪
Harut - Amasia🇦🇲
Tuğçe&Taylan - Kağızman🇹🇷
Kian - Qom, Kashan🇮🇷
Mohamad - Isfahan🇮🇷

My guests: Michal🇸🇰, Tingting🇨🇳, Marju🇪🇪, Joanna🇵🇱, Daniel🇧🇷, Ákos🇭🇺, Natali🇨🇾, Arto🇦🇲, Bilge🇹🇷, Behnan🇹🇷, Talat🇹🇷, Denis🇷🇺, Romén🇪🇸, Kenny🇨🇳, Sadig🇦🇿

Interests

I love learning new things! Most interested in: languages, movies, travelling, birdwatching, trekking, hitchhiking, geography, literature, books, nature, mountains, animals; birds, dogs and amphibians in particular, tea&cake, winter, fog, snow, rain, postcards, stamps, banknotes🐨☘

• animals
• dogs
• birds
• amphibians
• books
• literature
• cooking
• walking
• traveling
• stamps
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• spelunking
• camping
• mountaineering
• anthropology
• archeology
• teaching
• geography
• philately
• hitchhiking
• world
• tea
• trekking
• museums
• postcards
• foreign languages
• foreign cultures
• postcrossing
• herpetology
• birdwatching
• frogs
• introverting
• deltiology

Music, Movies, and Books

Books📚
L'Élégance du Hérisson by Muriel Barbery,
Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Samarcande by Amin Maalouf,
Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher,
A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright,
The Bonobo and the Atheist by Frans de Waal,
La Plus Belle Histoire de l'Homme,
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov,
Serenad by Zülfü Livaneli,
Bazen Bahar by Melisa Kesmez

Films🎬
Tamam Mıyız?, Mary and Max, Babam ve Oğlum, Los Ojos de Julia, El Orfanato, The Dark, Sveitabrúðkaup, Skrapp Út, Amélie, La Tout Nouveau Testament, Parasite, Get Out, Midsommar, Gone Girl, Arrival, Little Miss Sunshine, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Holdovers, Barbarian, E.T., Room, Cloverfield Lane, The Father, The Farewell, The Others, Wild Tales, Speak No Evil, Central do Brasil, The Quiet Girl, The Teachers’ Lounge, Just Mercy, Quiz Lady, Changeling, Crna Mačka Beli Mačor, Tangerines, The Deep End of the Ocean, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Aftersun, Saltburn, The Lobster, Manchester of the Sea, Split, Minari, Benjamin Button, Platform, The Help, Captain Fantastic, The Terminal, Sick of Myself, Contagion, The Cure of Wellness, Fractured, Nebraska, The Fundamentals of Caring, I Daniel Blake, Border, The Unforgivable, Godland, About Dry Grasses, A Man Called Ove, Sightseers, Aloners, Mandibles, The Good Liar, Toc Toc, The Ornithologist, Kelebekler, After Love, x+y, Aile Arasında, Virgin Mountain, Undir Trénu.

I’m particularly interested in Iranian cinema. My favorite Iranian films so far: Jadde Haki, Ghasideye Gave Sefid, Tahte Siyah, Persepolis, Ankebute Mokaddes, Piremardha Nemimirand, Sheytan Vojud Nadarad, Maghze Ostokhan, Baradaran Leyla.

Serials📺
The Office, Cunk on Earth, Shtisel, Unorthodox, After Life, The IT Crowd, Black Books, Big School, Teachers, Friends, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, Modern Family, Miranda, Hot in Cleveland, Shameless, The Strain, Caliphate, Resurrection, Black Mirror, Come Fly with Me, Vicious, Benvinguts a la Familia, When They See Us, The Serpent, Unbelievable, The Devil’s Hour, Hellbound, Tore, Çemberimde Gül Oya, İkinci Bahar, Avrupa Yakası, Yalan Dünya, Masum, Tehran, Kızıl Goncalar.

Music🎼
Candan Erçetin, Nilüfer, Cem Karaca, Selda Bağcan, Pinhani, Deniz Tekin, Kalben, Nil Karaibrahimgil, Angus, Julia Stone, Dillon, Daughter, Wolf Larsen, Tove Lo, Lana Del Ray, Kodaline, Alt J (Δ), Dalida, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Coldplay, Beirut, Kistehén Tánczenekar, Chainsmokers, Chisu, Trio Mandili, Okean Elzy, Hayedeh, Ali Azimi, Shervin Hajipour, Marjan Farsad

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Nothing too amazing but:
-Have the loveliest dog ever, Tarçın (Cinnamon)🐶
-Voluntary teaching in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere near Nurhak (2016-2017)
-Climbed the Mount Nurhak (3000 m.)
-Visited plenty of villages around Poland, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Ukraine.
-Travelled all around Turkey, except the southeast (yet:))
-I guess I can maintain a basic conversation for like a 5 minutes in Hungarian, Polish, Finnish, Indonesian, Greek and Georgian lol

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you some Turkish🇹🇷 I can share whatever I have.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iran, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Russian Federation, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Poland, Turkey, Ukraine