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Overview

  • 36 references 24 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Russian, Spanish, Turkish
  • 33, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Euro bum
  • Rice University/Boğaziçi University/Universidad de Málaga
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

I live for the moments and always ready for excitement. Travel as much as possible, meet new people and learn from them. Always up for adventure and trying new stuff. One day l want to travel around south America by motorcycle just like Che did and do the Mongol Rally :) I've been on the road on and off. Since I'm working an office job now, I'd like to host some fellow travelers to pay back my debt, I mean forward :) cheers !

ABOUT ME

Well my biggest passion is travelling. Other than that I enjoy art(impressionism, modern, surrealism bla bla ), drinking(who doesn't) and good company. I did a lot study abroad and internship things around the world. Basically spent all my vacation days doing trips too. 30 something countries ? I lost count lol. Love being spontaneous and always up for adventure. Not much planning just go with the flow and somehow I always have a good time haha ;)

PHILOSOPHY

Short one: WHY NOT ?

Long one:
I believe that getting lost will help you finding yourself, so that's why I very much enjoy the feeling of on the road. To me life is about the people you meet and things you create with them. Orhan Pamuk said people always l try so hard to find their true selves and they can never make it because what you call your true self is pieces of others who have some how influenced your life. I'd love those pieces of me to as wild and diverse as it could be.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I went to small town with only 3000 people in Germany to do an internship with Siemens (I was really surprised to find out there was a couchsurfer). After couch surfing for a few days I found an apartment right next to my host's house. We end up being neighbors and really good friends. I visited his family for Christmas the year after. It was a great experience.

Interests

Reading especially when I am on the road. Novels, history, philosophy, etc.
Arts. I can spend days in museums literally
Eastern Europe
Ruins, industrial wasteland and abandoned buildings
Walking and getting lost in new cities
I love doing random things just for the lolz
Beer, wine and vodka ;)

Music, Movies, and Books

Big Woody Allen fan. Maybe Midnight in Paris or the Dreamers ? The Seventh Seal could be favorite too. Wes Anderson, Tarkovsky, Bertolucci, Jean-Pierre Jeunet....

I like Orhan Pamuk, Orwell, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs, Hemingway, Jonas Mekas(also makes movies) Camus....list goes on :)

Bob Dylan, Gogol Bordello(I saw them!), Beatles, Manu Chao, AC/DC, CCR.......

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've been to the Sahara and held a baby fennec fox in Tataouine( where George Lucas shot the first star war)

Went to Chernobyl(Pripyat) and took a book from elementary school ;)

I hitchhiked along half of the Turkish coast in 10 days

I attend Transnistria "Independence" Day celebration 2016

Helped locals push cars out of snow on Red Square and Sahara desert and Cuban streets with my buddy Josh ;) that's 3 continents of car pushing ;)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to say cheers in many languages haha

What I Can Share with Hosts

Good bad and the crazy stories :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Germany, Lithuania, Spain, Turkey, United States

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