Ellooo! 🙋🏼‍♀️ I’ m a 21 years old political science and international relations student living in beautiful İstanbul. I am an outgoing introvert, i absolutely love meeting new people, i believe everyone we meet can teach us something we don’t know and help to widen our horizons but i also enjoy spending time by myself as well. I am quite open- minded and a lover of deep conversations. I am on my journey to minimalism and low waste, i want my life to be based on experiences rather than materialistic stuff and i’m trying to be kind to mama earth as much as i can. I would never think i would write this anywhere explaining about myself but i found myself doing climate activism since i started learning more about climate and ecological crisis (#rebelforlife) One day -if we don’t die from permafrost melting soon- I want to move into a van, go explore and seek discomfort with it. I love doing yoga and meditation, I am a free spirit, I tried couchsurfing during my solo trip for the first time last summer and now want to keep meeting travellers in İstanbul (unfortunately i can’t host you at the moment bc i stay in a dorm )
Lastly, if you want to stalk me on Instagram 😉 : @ecemwashere

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because i love trying new things, meeting new people and exploring and don’t think being broke should keep us back from travelling 🌍

Interests

•I’m passionate about learning new languages, meeting new people and discovering new places 🌍
•yoga and meditation 🧘🏼‍♀️
•might be obsessed with sunsets and sunrises 🌅

• dogs
• photography
• reading
• minimalism
• piano
• snorkeling
• learning languages
• sustainability
• feminism
• netflix
• sunsets
• green living
• zero waste
• yoga and meditation
• women rights

Music, Movies, and Books

🎶 I have all kinds of genres in my playlists, i just listen whatever i feel like haha
🎬 I’m more of a tv series person than movies, these are some of my favourite shows: Black Mirror, Breaking Bad, Stranger Things, La casa de Papel... and i’m kind of an documentary addict and also love watching stand up comedies, and ted talks
All time fav movies: Fight Club, Interstellar

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

•Working as an Au Pair
•Solo travelling

Teach, Learn, Share

Gotta love a good (or more) quote :

🖋”The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”
-Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
🖋 “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
-Jane Goodall
🖋”This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
-Dalai Lama

What I Can Share with Hosts

We can be tourists in İstanbul together because i’ve been living in İstanbul for 3 years and still have so much to explore, we can eat tasty Turkish food and i can show you the best spots to watch the sunset 🌅

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bulgaria, England, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Qatar, Scotland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Turkey