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Overview

  • 24 references 10 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Turkish
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Entrepreneur
  • Computer Engineer
  • From Urla, İzmir, Türkiye
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About Me

I’m on sabbatical year(s), traveling full time.

Always happy to meet interesting, intelligent, passionate and mindful people on the way and if you like Battlestar Galactica, it’s a real plus, just drop me a line.

I’m an entrepreneur and a software programmer, I worked for three lifetimes in the last ten years and decided to quit for a while. So at the moment, I program only for fun. (Yes, programming might be fun, too)

There’s nothing I have to do right now and my current goal is keeping it in the same way.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host people.
I try to attend meetings.
I meet couchsurfers at the places i go.
I surfed in several cities.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I Hosted :
• Mateusz Pilecki and Mateusz Wojtakowski (Poland)
• Patrick Sagmeister and Nathalie Schneider (Austria)
• Javier Sesé and Marta Sesé (Spain)
• Roni Weiss (USA)

--Edit after a year--
At the first days of my CS days i was planning to write everyone i hosted and stayed with, then it started to be a little bit hard and also i forgot to do it. In summary, i hosted many people and met via CS.

--Edit after three years--
Whatever, this is the third time i update my profile, yes, keeping track of everyone is pretty hard :)

--Edit after twelve years--
I still keep these old parts on my profile, it somehow reminds me the changes I had through the time. I wish, I had made an edit each year. Maybe I do after that. So answer to the question, why I’m still on Couchsurfing after twelve years, well, because it’s so awesome!

Interests

  • coffee
  • working out
  • reading
  • traveling
  • guitar
  • piano
  • outdoor activities
  • hiking
  • entrepreneurship
  • physics
  • science
  • software

Music, Movies, and Books

Some movies i like in random order:

Back to the Future
Goodfellas
Star Wars
The Man from Earth
Into the Wild
The Godfather

Some TV Shows :

Battlestar Galactica
Doctor Who
Utopia
The IT Crowd
Firefly
Rick and Morty

Favorite books

Zorba - Nikos Kazancakis
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Some music if it makes sense

Chopin
Dark Tranquillity
Pink Floyd
Dream Theather
Michael Jackson

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Realizing, the path to anything passes through being mindful, then everything is amazing.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can definitely teach computer programming if there's anyone interested in these kind of things. And i can help you about growing your own business or being an entrepreneur, passive income strategies, stuff like these.

I’d like learn more about meditation and yoga when I meet people who are interested in. I’m new to this area but loved it naturally.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can of course share ideas with you but it’s a little bit abstract.

I can brew you fresh, good coffee. If you’re hosting me, probably I have my Aeropress with me and I can brew with that, it’s just awesome. If I’m hosting you, then the probabilities are limitless, I can brew you a great espresso or V60 or whatever your taste is like. But I still prefer Aeropress most of the times even when I’m at home, it’s just a marvel of engineering.

And I can share banana pancakes with you, without any sugar, fat or flour in it. I try to cook my own food almost all the time and also would be happy to cook for you. I can’t guarantee the taste of it will be delicious, -it’s delicious to me, though- but I can guarantee it’ll be low fat and high protein and I can tell you the exact calories you’ll take when you eat it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Turkey

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