Multimedia journalist, reporter.

Been away for long time. Relaunched the app in hope to meet some good people with good vibes and get myself into traveling mood again.

IG: emilbaghirov

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

There are lots of different ways of travelling or getting to know the world. Discovering nature, exploring culture, cities, architecture, cuisine, nightlife and so on. After a while of travelling, I have become aware that exploring human beings is an amazing thing itself. The way that people are thinking, expressing, acting, their thoughts, feelings, emotions, reactions. It's really huge and incredible to see how unique is each human being.

You can go somewhere, see all the stuff, try the stuff or whatever, but in the end, it feels kind of uncompleted when you don't meet people who actually live there. We should cross somehow each other's paths to get to know the world and expand our perception, understanding and imagination. Couchsurfing is a cool tool for this purpose.

Interests

• chess
• hitchhiking
• documentary
• analog photography

Music, Movies, and Books

I like almost all kinds of music, except maybe rap, trap, RnB kind of music which I don't particularly listen, however I might enjoy seeing people doing such music at some concerts or local bars.

Lately, I'm into listening radios, such as FIP, besides some electronic, techno, as well as surf rock, beach goth so on and I would always mention Pink Floyd here.

There are some movies I might quite say that have changed my understanding of life. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Wild Strawberries, Persona, A Clockwork Orange, Paths of Glory, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, The Elephant Man, Strangers on a Train etc. On the other hand there some movies as like The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou, Little Miss Sunshine, Soul Kitchen, Relatos Salvajes and all Wes Anderson's movies are awesome!

And there are some books that have changed my understanding of life, even my personality I guess. Ivan Turgenev - Rudin, Anton Chekhov - My Life, Leo Tostoy - The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Albert Camus - The Stranger, Dino Buzzati - The Tartar Steppe, Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf, Jack London - The Apostate, Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception, Jack Kerouac - On the Road and so on. I might say literature is divided two parts: russian literature and others.

Teach, Learn, Share

Adapting René Descartes`s proposition, we share, therefore we are. It's not that easy to be deeply tolerant and open-minded to new thoughts. Though we should sometimes force ourselves in that regard, once you got into the state of mind, it's amazing.

The same goes for learning, as having a desire for learning, curiosity should be one of the major points of one's existence.

I don't think I can teach, that's not my nature. We can share, learn, exchange something, I can tell, show stuff, but I can't teach.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Cup of tea?

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Azerbaijan, France, Russian Federation