My name Mesut, I'm 25. Living in one of most crowded cities, Istanbul. My job is doing banking between international financial institutions. I have many international colleagues but I can not travel around with them and that is why I am in here.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

As I mentioned before, even though I have my colleagues at abroad, I cant travel around in a city with them. I am looking for some possible fun friends that I can talk with and travel around together. Travelling a city with a local friend is the best way to know that city and culture. For several times, I experienced this way of travelling as host and guest, and that way again I am on couchsurfing.

Interests

Actually most of my interests stated above but if I need to emphasize one of them, that would be walking all around the city and combining it with taking photos and having conversations about the cities and our cultures. Apart from that, any sport is interesting for me and trying new foods and drinks is interested. One more little thing.This is useless for other people but I really enjoy "Do it Yoursef" staff. Some of my furnitures is made by myself and I rarely buy presents, I always prefer to make it instead.

• photography
• dancing
• cooking
• walking
• drinking
• reading
• cycling
• sports
• swimming
• talking with people

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
The lumineers(they are fuc*in lovely)
Oscar Issiac / Dave van Ronk
Eddie Wedder / Bob Dylan
Edward Sharpe and the magnetic zone
Ahmet Aslan(Turkish)
Rock and country music in general
Books:
Ernest Hemingway for sure
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
F. M. Dostoyevski
Sabahattin Ali
Movies:
Woodie Allan (e.g. midnight in paris )
Christopher Nolan (e.g. Interstellar )
Tim Burton (e.g. Swanney Tood)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Even though they are not so amazing:
I have seen 17 city and town in 21 days, starting from sofia untill amsterdam.
I have managed to get highest point on a bank's exam among 40K people ( I still dont get how I did this)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach my language of course which is Turkish. Also, cooking and DIY staff are practiced a lot by myself, we might do these. I would like share good sides of my country's culture. ( we might keep negative side for ourselfs: ) I suppose this will sound boring but I could mention on economy and trade finance if it is interested.

What I Can Share with Hosts

They will have a chance to find out all culture of my people. Of course they will have fun while we traviling around, having conversation and hanging out.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, Turkey