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  • 68 references 43 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German, Turkish; learning Spanish
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2007
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

New destination => BERLIN!

ABOUT ME

Me is a good person. Me had hosted lots of couchsurfers in Istanbul and travelled across the Europe using couchsurfing for nearly 5 years. Me lived in Budapest, London and met with travelled there. Now me moved to lovely Berlin for work and looking forward to meet up locals and adventoruos visitors.

Buzz me if you ever come to Berlin and give a hug.

Shortly! Me is Kemal.. Nice to meet you: )

PHILOSOPHY

first => to be happy
second= > to make people happy around me

dont much care about money, career, grades... it already works if these two things re in your life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Sharing something is always good. My home, my food, my couch... and travelling is always good too.

Thats why I liked here! and ll help who wants share or travel: )

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

* My first real CS experience was in İstanbul Winter Camp. I was kind of a part of OC. It was great. Thanks for those who participated!* I also try to join many meetings I can... Meeting new people is always fun.* I started hosting this year! My first guests were Sina and Katha from Germany. (26-29 Sep 08) * I hosted again two people from Germany. Hosting Christina and Evelyn was really one of my best CS experience(21-24 Oct 08)* Hosted two super friendly girls Sam and Kim from US.(6-10 Nov 08)* Hosted 3 friends from Germany Anna, Luise and Vera!(25-27 Dec 08 )* Wiebke and Antonija from Vienna crashed at my place for three nights!( 3-6 Feb 09 )* Myriam from Switzerland was my super guest for a couple of nights. (8-9-10 Feb 09)* Kleo and Marie from Canada, Quebec City were my lovely guests and stayed for 8 nights! wow that was my record. (8-16 Apr 09)to be continued...;)* Hosted a friend from US; Jenna, for six days.(June 09)* Hosted two interrail people from Belgium and France for 3 nights (July 09)* Hosted two friends from Germany, Julia and Choon Ja for 4 nights (July 09)* Hosted a Wiener, Nadine for 4 nights (August 09)* Hosted Ling from NYC for one night (August 09)* Hosted two lovely Estonian girls for two nights (August 09)* Hosted two French girls, Caro and Emy for 3 nights (August 09)* Hosted two German Friends, Maren and Eva from Germany for 4 nights! (September 09)* Hosted Ange from very far away,Australia, for 5 nights. (October 09)* Hosted Andrew from Australia for one night(October 09)* Hosted Jessica from Utah for 1,5 nights=)(November 09)* Hosted Sara from Italy, Eva from greece for 2 nights (December 09)* Hosted Anne from Hamburg for 5 great days (February 10)* Hosted Noelle from Sweden for 3 days. (March 10)* Hosted Imke and Kristina for 2 days (March 10)* Hosted Lena and her friend for 2 days (March 10)* Hosted Mary and Marienne for 2938493205 days =) (Apr 10)* Two lovely friends Sarah and Karin have been my guests for 3 nights (Apr 10)* Vera and Ange from Germany were my guests for 3 nights! (June 10)* Moa and Karin from Sweden were my superguests for a 5 nights.(June 10)* Hosted three friends from Germany Cacelia, Katja and Theresa for 6 nights (June 10)* Hosted Edina, Margo and Andraj for a week (July 10)* Hosted Yvonne and Lilli for one night (July 10)* Hosted Laura for 5 nights from US. (July 10)* Hosted Yoshie and Ei from Japan for 2 nights (July 10)* Surfed with Vanna at Zagreb for 3 nights (August 10)* Hosted Amanda from Switzerland for 3 nights (September 10)* Hosted Dasha and her friends from Czech Rep for 3 nights (October 10)* Hosted Fanny & Ylva from Swe, Bre from USA, Canan from Ankara for 3-4 days. God we were crowded!(October 10)* Surfed with Larissa in Wien 2 nights (November 10)* Surfed with Alicia in Wien 0,5 nights (November 10)* Hosted Linna, Barbara from Latvia, Karen & John from South Korea for 2 nights (December 10)* Yonna, Laura and Tatyana were my NYE 2011 guests (January 11)* Vicki from far far away New Zealand for 3 nites. (February 11)* Felix and Babsi were my Munchener guests for 3 nights (March 11)* Flippa, Martyna and Kasia were my guest for 2 nights. (April 11)* Kunya from Kazakhistan has been my guest for a week. (May 11)* Viktoria aus Deustchland has been my guest for couple of nights.(August 11)* Irmi my Syrian friend :p was my guest for couple of nights. (August 11)* Julia and Choon Ja visited me again after 2 years. It was more than hosting. (August 11)* Hosted Polish friends Patrycja and Małgorzata (September 11)to be continued ... ;)

Interests

It might be everything that I enjoy.. it changes time to time. Those times, Lindy Hopping and enjoying Saturday nights with friends more because I work hard :/

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Paulo Coelho, Paul Auster, Jose Saramago, Albert Camus, Herman Hesse, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jean Paul Sartre , Zülfü Livaneli, George Orwell, Knut Hamsun, Franz Kafka, Khaled Housseni, Aziz Nesin are my favourite writers. Also like poetry Nazim Hikmet, Ahmed Arif, Can Yucel are great names of Turkish Poetry.

Movies: Prefer more European movies: like Mar Adentro, Shaun of Dead, La Vite e Bella, Snatch, Das Leben der Anderen, Jeux D'enfants, Leon... From Holywood: Back to the Future Series, Star Wars Series,Bourne Series, Fight Club, Into the Wild, Forest Gump, American History X, The Crow, Everything is Illuminated, and lately The Dark Knight

Music: yess it is the most important part of my life. Prefer alternative, indie rock and electronic ... Snow Patrol, Death Cab for Cutie, The National, The Decemberists, The Arctic Monkeys, Feist, Bright Eyes, Bloc Party,Girls in Hawai, Morissey, Blonde Readhead, Kashmir, The Weepies, Kasabian, The Killers, Interpol, The Shins, Radiohead, Metric, The Friendly Fires, Tocotronic, The Subways, Two Door Cinema Club, Franz Ferdinand, The Strokes, Hot Chip, The Ting Things, Royksopp, Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan are my favourite!!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

stayed in a border for six hours between Germany and Czech Republic.(cuz we had passport problems)Than being friend with border duty man. Turning back from border at night 00:30 to vienna: =>
first by taxi to a czech village
village to prague by train
prague to vienna by train again
arrival to vienna 13:00 : )

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Hungary, Turkey

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