CURRENT MISSION

Discover Atlanta

ABOUT ME

I am a curious person about almost everything and I like to learn. I grow up in Ankara and luckly had a good community surrounded by artists, musicians, travelers and scientists and Iearned a lot from them. I have studied physics and then finished a master about renewable energy sciences and now a PhD... For some years I have been living in Istanbul, working as a researcher in a University, researching about sustainable energy sources and sunstainable buildings. I like running, biking, walking, photographing, listening the city and playing some instruments. I am again lucky that I am surrounded by people like I had Ankara, so I keep learning from them.
I am quite interested in music, photography, literature, languages, history, anthropology, travelling, nature.
Recently, I am very curious about the surrounding zones of Anatolia including Balkans, Caucasians and Middle East. The languages, history, music, culture, cuisine and all interactions between them amaze me.

PHILOSOPHY

I prefer to say "folks" instead of "nations". We should meet and see how close we are to each other. Nowadays, to avoid, to hate people is the easiest behaviour....

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have heard about CS from a friend long time ego and after first experience, I just wanted to meet more travellers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was hosted in Thessaloniki, Athens, Beograd and Novi Sad. And I have host some friends from Serbia, France, Spain, Iran, German and Estonia. And i met with such great people. Now I have great friends and even families in each city...

Interests

I love Music, which helps you to discover the secrets of this world, it connects people and nobody can destroy this connections. I play guitar, bass guitar, and I try to play kemençe (lyra from black sea region).

I love reading, books are the outside of the window and they always help.

I like photography. There is some shots of me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pusluatlas/

I like to play football and basketball, it comes from childhood, we didnt have something to do better than these games. Recently I am running and I want to finish a Marathon soon...

• culture
• books
• literature
• photography
• marathon
• running
• walking
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• basketball
• soccer
• anthropology
• history
• languages
• mathematics
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

I like lately "world music". ( I dont still dont understand why it is called world music). I like middle east, anatolian, balkan, black sea region(turkish, greek, armenian, georgian,) italian, arabic and african music
I like Rock music, especially 70's are the best period for me. I like physicadelic rock, electronik, jazz, electronic Jazz, Fusion and etc etc..

I like to read about philosophy. I read turkish literature and I try to find the books from neighbore literatures like from balkans and middle-east. I love history books especially from middle ages and modern times.

I like especially europian cinema and balkan cinema...

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach physics and math:) languages that I can speak, maybe some music...I'd like to teach, anything I can...Teaching is the best way of learning...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Turkey, United States

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