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Overview

  • 10 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Persian (Farsi), Turkish
  • 37, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • Graduate student at Virginia Tech Washington-Alexandria A...
  • bachelor of Architecture
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About Me

ABOUT ME
Actually, I am not really interested in writing about me but as I have to, I can mention some things.
I was born in Iran and spent most of my life there. One year ago I left there in hopes of experiencing new and different life in other places; Get to know different cultures and seeking for more freedom.
Now I am in Turkey and probably I will stay here for one more year.
I really like traveling around the world though I didn’t really had the chance for it that much. But in one of my dreams I always picture myself like a gypsy, moving from a land to another, doesn’t have a place.
However in another one, I have this old brick house with a BIG library and a balcony and it’s placed in downtown of a crowded city. Well I guess they are a little in contrast. But I can host a lot of couch surfer there to make my dreams closer ;)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

4 month ago I had a trip to Istanbul and in the train I met a nice German guy and his Iranian friend and I heard about CS from them.
I canceled my hostel in Istanbul because it was awful and then my German friend found me a couch surfer. It was my first experience.

and now, I am a couch surfer

Interests

I study architecture and I am satisfied by my choice but I hope in future I have an opportunity to study literature because it’s my true passion. I also am interested in movies and you can see my list here.
I like dancing. I use to do ballet and contemporary for few years. Though these days I don’t have the chance to do them, still love dancing.
There are a lot of things I am interested in and I am not gonna write them all here, because I wanna leave something for our conversations if we meet, so that’s it.

  • writing
  • literature
  • architecture
  • dancing
  • ballet dancing
  • movies
  • traveling
  • surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

My favorite directors are:
Ingmar Bergman (Passion of Anna, Wild Strawberries,Persona ,...)

Krzysztof Kieslowski(Blue, Red,Decalogue,...)

Jim Jarmusch ( Dead man, night on earth, dawn by law, Broken flowers,...)

Alfred Hitchcock (Rear window, Psycho, Vertigo,...)

Richard Linklater ( Before sunrise, Before sunset, Before midnight, Boyhood)

Abdolreza Kahani ( Absolutely Tame Is a Horse, Nothing, By no reason)

Nuri Bilge Ceylan ( Once upon a time in Anatolia , Winter sleep, Distant)

Classical Music ( specially Bach )and Opera

127 Band ( Persian band. Jazz,Gypsy punk,rock )

Archive,Radiohead, Antony & the Johnsons, Iron and Wine, Muse,
Zbigniew Preisner, Mohsen Namjoo, Frank Sinatra, Edith Piaf, Mariza, Pink Martini, Nina simone,Cole Porter

And Books :
Novels (classic and modern)my favorite authors are :Dostoevsky, Kundera, Camus, Heinrich Böll, Émile Zola, Garcia Marquez, J.D.Salinger, Sadeq Chubak, Dowlat Abadi etc

Sociology ( women studies,...)

Drama ( James Joyce, Eugene Ionesco)

Poetry (Forough Farrokhzad, Nima Yooshij, Charles Baudelaire,...)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One amazing thing in my life was Couch Surfing

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Mexico, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Iran, Turkey, United States

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