CURRENT MISSION

to become turkified :)

ABOUT ME

a workaholic and a maniacal lover of:- the Turkish language- violet things- good music (yes, GOOD music)- snow in Lapland- Iranian movies (even the pretentious ones produced only to win Cannes festival)- Boğaz Köprüsü in ISTANBUL- Galata Köprüsü in ISTANBUL- cats in ISTANBUL and cats cats cats anywhere else- peeping at the boys playing with waves in Ortaköy, ISTANBUL- erm.. ISTANBUL itself?- Swedish kanelbullar- khoomei and Tuva and steppes and turkic tribes- Tori Amos, the neurotic piano terrorist- travelling by trains (especially long & complicated).yeah.besides, i hate pidgeons and kokoreç.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Since I do not live alone and need take into consideration the needs of my flatmates, I'm not that active a host for the time being. Still, I'm trying to support the CS community by offering to show the Cracow I've fallen in love with to CSers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

not rich yet. hope to improve though :)

Interests

Türkiye, Türkiye, Türkiye!

• cats
• festivals
• walking
• nightlife
• drinking
• pub crawls
• movies
• traveling
• music
• piano

Music, Movies, and Books

hundreds! thousands! millions!

just to name a few:

category 1: Mercan Dede, Kazım Koyuncu, Cem Adrian, Sigur Rós, Archive, balkan music, Tori Amos, Devendra Banhart, CocoRosie, Joy Division, Duman.

category 2: Ghobadi and Kaurismaki. Kaurismaki and Ghobadi. and Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

category 3: Gombrowicz. Pamuk.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

don't-judge-by-the-appearances experience when during one night in Aleppo, Syria, my co-travellers and I were looking for a place to drink and a lady from Dubai all covered with black burqa overheard our conversation and she offered to show us the way to pubs, alcohol and nightlife. all of us were pretty dumbfolded :)also, seeing real camels walking freely on the Amman-Petra highway in Jordan.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Myanmar, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Poland, Sweden, Turkey

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