Hey there! I'm an Emergency Room doctor in NYC who loves traveling. I believe in this day and age we are all global citizens 🌎

🌃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.

I have some availability to host at my current place, either way if you’re in the city we can meet up

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 empty Soviet classrooms at a university in Ukraine; sitting in on a friend’s German class in Turkey and somehow learning Turkish; meeting people from Turkmenistan dressed in traditional clothing

Interests

• photography
• wine
• fitness
• history
• languages
• science
• spanish

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, Pursuit of Happyness

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 pop, electronic, and reggaeton

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Some highlights:

1️⃣ Event doctor for concerts at Madison Square Garden and sports games at Yankee Stadium🚑

2️⃣ Worked in NYC emergency room during the COVID-19 pandemic🦠

3️⃣ Medical rotations in Vienna, Austria🇦🇹 and Wrocław, Poland🇵🇱. (Not studying abroad in college was one of my biggest regrets)

4️⃣ Hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia, Turkey🇹🇷

5️⃣ Day of the Dead in Oaxaca, Mexico🇲🇽

6️⃣ Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil🇧🇷

7️⃣ Songkran festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand🇹🇭

8️⃣ Holi festival in Jaipur, India🇮🇳

9️⃣ David Guetta closing party at Ushuaïa club in Ibiza, Spain🇪🇸

🔟 6/7 of the New 7 Wonders of the World -
Great Wall of China🇨🇳
Christ the Redeemer🇧🇷
Machu Picchu🇵🇪
Chichén Itzá🇲🇽
Colosseum🇮🇹
Taj Mahal🇮🇳
❗️If you’re looking to go to Petra, Jordan🇯🇴 or Pyramids of Giza in Egypt🇪🇬, let me know and let’s go!

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 drink, and discover hidden parts of a city. I enjoy taking photos 📸

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

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, 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, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States