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Overview

  • 28 references 21 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Turkish
  • 33, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Educational Measurement and Evaluation Specialist
  • Graduate School
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Reading the World

ABOUT ME

I'm an open-minded, reasonable and cheerful guy. I have an explorer soul. I like talking about literature, religions, philosophy, psychology, mathematics, music and traditional instruments... I play classical guitar, but I'd like to play cello :/

PHILOSOPHY

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ~ Thomas Paine

Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things. ~ Rumi

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

1) in Turkey.
Summer of 2013 ~ Samsun - Daday - Kastamonu - Ankara - Bursa - Balıkesir - Manisa - İzmir - Kusadası - Denizli - Ankara - Cide - Kastamonu

2) in Europe.
Oct. & Nov. 2014 ~ Prague, CZE & Warsaw, POL

3) in Asia
2015 ~ Batumi, Adjara, GEORGIA

Interests

playing classical and acoustic guitar, Math, science, philosophy, psychology, reading, theatre, opera, ballet, literature, learning English, different cultures, meeting new friends, futsal, trying to play interesting/traditional instruments, interesting board/card games, civil society, cinema (not horror movies), trying to memorize words from other languages, street arts (especially graffiti), tango, music, Russian literature, travel, hamsters and cats, freestyle football, doing sport, fitness, soft songs with impressive lyrics and soft sounds from other countries, ...

  • cats
  • arts
  • culture
  • books
  • literature
  • singing
  • street art
  • tango
  • ballet dancing
  • cooking
  • beer
  • boating
  • movies
  • reading
  • tv
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • opera
  • sports
  • soccer
  • swimming
  • history
  • languages
  • mathematics
  • psychology
  • religion
  • science
  • sightseeing

Music, Movies, and Books

Music :
> Tove Lo - Stay High, Disco Tits
> Greta Van Fleet - Highway Tune
> Maria Fisker - Ghost of Love
> Passenger - Let Her Go, Hotel California (cover)
> Imagine Dragons - Thunder, Radioactive, Believer, Whatever It Takes, Not Today
> Hippie Sabotage - Devil Eyes
> Enver Can Gündüz - Take Me to Church (cover)
> Sena Şener - Self Control (cover)
> Adam Lambert - Mad World (cover)
> Jah Khalib - Leila
> The XX - Intro, Crystalised
> Kurt Cobain - Across the Universe (cover)
> Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud, Perfect, Shape of You
> Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
> Linkin Park - Numb, Faint, Crawling, What I've Done, In the End, Breaking the Habit, One Step Closer
> Selda Bağcan - İnce İnce Bir Kar Yağar
> Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know
> Rag'n'Bone Man - Human
> Charlie Puth - Attention
> Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside, Californication
> Gazapizm - Heyecanı Yok
> Cem Adrian - Öf Öf
> Lara Di Lara - Bencil
> Yüzyüzeyken Konuşuruz - Bir Sinema Filmine Bilet Almışım, Ateş Edecek Misin?, Kendi Evimde Deplasmandayım, Ölmemişiz
> Adamlar - Kapısı Kapalı
> R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
> Ariana Grande - Side to Side (ft. Nicki Minaj)
> Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around
> Two Feet - Go F*ck Yourself

Movies : Amelie, Leon, The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, The Prestige, Into the Wild, Noviembre, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I am Sam, Waking Life, Se7en, Fight Club, The King's Speech, V For Vendetta, Life is Beautiful, The Perfume, No Country For Old Men, The Sixth Sense, Back to the Future Trilogy, Pulp Fiction, A Clocwork Orange, Persepolis, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Snatch, 21, Sherlock Holmes, Reservoir Dogs, The Birdcage, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Meaning of Life, The Green Mile, Stigmata, Meet Joe Black, Yes Man, 500 Days of Summer, The Truman Show, Karpuz Kabugundan Gemiler Yapmak, Winter Sleep, Interstellar...

Books : Dostoyevski, Chingiz Aitmatov, Friedrich Nietzsche, Oguz Atay, Milan Kundera, George Orwell, Charles Bukowski, Tolstoy, Yusuf Atilgan, Sabahattin Ali, Nazim Hikmet Ran, Franz Kafka, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gogol, Anton Cehov, Carl Sagan, Tezer Ozlu, Cemal Sureya, Albert Camus, Orhan Pamuk, Oruc Aruoba, Chuck Palahniuk, Pablo Neruda, Platon, Konstantinos Kavafis, Erich Fromm, John Fante, Cemil Meric, Ernest Hemingway, Omar Khayyam, Ayn Rand...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

For example, I have joined the Dragon Boat Race in Samsun, and my team lost. (P.s : I couldn't swim.)

I have been most of cities of Turkey. I want to see all of them.

What I Can Share with Hosts

As I mentioned above, I play guitar. So I can sing a song from Black Sea Region with my guitar, if you like. We can also play together. And I have been a lot of cities in Turkey. I may help you to suggest nice places. I share my Couchsurfing experiences.
My bookcase is quite big. I have almost two thousand books and magazines. My dear Turkish surfers can read them. Unfortunately, I have just a few English story books :/
I like surfers who know a lot about their country, culture, history, etc. And also, i like to share cultures. I'm not good at cooking. Maybe you'll cook something traditional, huh? I want to taste your meals, hear your sounds, listen your stories.
I like to accompany my surfer to go for sightseeing. I can walk 10-15 kilometers in a day, if I'm sure that I'll have a nice day with my companion.

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Georgia, Poland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Turkey

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