CURRENT MISSION

Time is short. The World is Big. Travel as much as possible and live!

ABOUT ME

I am a philosophy master student in Bogazici University, İstanbul. I graduated from translation and interpreting studies department. Ideas thanks to new books, places and people make me happy. I love travelling and experiencing the new :) Meeting you, hearing you ideas or visiting your country will enrich my soul! Contrary to my work (book translating) which requires sitting all the day, I love moving and moving around the world!

My blog in Turkish: http://yolmatika.blogspot.com/

Now I live in the dormitory of the university but I would like to help any friends visiting Istanbul and try to show them nice places of the city so that they will like the city and not be cheated by tourist-preyers :)

PHILOSOPHY

As Sartre says, existence comes before essence. We have the responsibility to construct our own essence. Being open to new experiences and moving all the time constructs our essence :) Live wise and live to be wise! People make you wise! Travelling make you wise!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Couchsurfing is like a key term that I always hear from my traveller friends. Everone talks about it. It is like a temple for travellers. Finally, I decided to participate.

Interests

Philosophy, Biolinguistics, Literature, Cooking, Travelling, Learning Foreign Languages, Reading, Writing stories, poems, travel experiences, listening music, meeting new people

• writing
• books
• literature
• poetry
• perfumes
• cooking
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• music
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: 12 Angry Man, Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Books: The Idiot (Dostoyevsky), Madame Bovary (Flaubert), Poems of Nazim Hikmet, Pablo Neruda, M. Hernandez

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Interrail experience was my first visit to Europe since that time I have been addicted to travelling :)
I also travelled around nearly all cities of Turkey :)

Teach, Learn, Share

People from all cultures are always welcome.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, Spain