Hey there! I'm an Emergency Room doctor in NYC who loves traveling.

New York is one of my favorite cities - a diverse, international metropolis with the opportunity to meet people from all over the world, and of course the city that never sleeps.

On the weekends I’m not working, you’ll usually find me chilling at a rooftop bar or speakeasy, or planning my next trip abroad

ig: @tarekuma1

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Some of my favorite moments have been authentic experiences of daily life - roaming around the Soviet classrooms at a university in Ukraine; sitting in on a German class in Turkey and somehow learning Turkish; visiting a high school in Poland; meeting people from Turkmenistan dressed in traditional clothing

These experiences meant more to me than going around to all the touristy sites in a city

Interests

• animals
• culture
• photography
• dining
• fitness
• walking
• flying
• aviation
• movies
• music
• sports
• geography
• history
• languages
• medicine
• science
• tourism
• sightseeing
• food
• russian language
• turkish language
• exploring
• gym
• europe
• arabic
• reggaeton
• russian
• spanish
• eastern europe
• turkish

Music, Movies, and Books

Action and comedy movies in general:
Ocean's Eleven, Star Wars, Bourne series, Lord of the Rings, Matrix, Groundhog Day, Inception, Mission Impossible, Wolf of Wall Street

Master of None, Suits, Silicon Valley, Louie, Breaking Bad, Sherlock, Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother, Stranger Things, Dirty Money, some Turkish series (Aşk-ı memnu), Unorthodox, Queen’s Gambit

Open to all kinds of music but generally reggaeton and pop

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Working as the event doctor for concerts at Madison Square Garden and sports games at Yankee Stadium

Teach, Learn, Share

I love learning about different ways of living, and I’m always up for a new experience. I like understanding the perspective of locals, so always happy to meet up! We can go for a walk, grab food, share a beer, and discover hidden parts of a city

I think language is an essential part of understanding a culture, so I do enjoy trying to learn new languages

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States