CURRENT MISSION

travel the world, love the world, bringing peace vibe to the world, meet different cultures.

ABOUT ME

I could never succeed explaining myself. It sounds like an interview question for me and I never wanted to be in the interviews. Life should be much more different and funnier than interviews. So do I. My references or photos can explain me a bit. Below is my life schedule

-Born in Adana (south of Turkey) and lived there until my university days. then
-2001-2011 : istanbul (studied bachelor and master degree. started working. some part is in Austria, Germany, New Hampshire/US)
-2012 : Dallas/ Texas (where I became very active in Couchsurfing events )
-2013-... : Seattle/Washington ( I hosted lots of travellers, joined events, had great CS friends, organized several pub crawls, Seattle CouchCrash 2016)

I am not an active couchsurfer last 3 years. But I still check all the messages I receive.

PHILOSOPHY

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can host anybody from the world. I can go anyone's home in the world.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

- I am both surfing and hosting in last 10 years and i met great people from couchsurfing

- hosted several people from Europe while I was living in istanbul, surfed in europe.

- I participated CS Dallas meetings almost every week for a year and I have lots of great friends from Couchsurfing Dallas Community while I was living in Dallas

- Between september 2012 to 2016,in Seattle I hosted lots of people from many countries of the world. I was the most active couch hoster in Seattle. I attended lots of CS Seattle meetings.

I am not a very active couchsurfer since 2017 but I still check all the messages and get involved if I am not busy.

Interests

drama/improvisational theatres, cinema, acting, soccer, street art, basketball, premier league, film festivals, burning man, running, hiking, snorkeling, costume parties, traveling, indie music, roadtripping, microbreweries ...

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC,

indie, brit-pop, alternative, rock, deep house, dubstep so on.

some samples: devotchka, tame impala, the black keys, placebo, radiohead, beirut, the smiths, the do, bjork, bella&sebastian, mumford&sons, arctic monkeys, the beatles ...

MOVIES
generally independent american movies or European festival movies. Some examples of movies I like:
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German films: Die Welle, Das leben der anderen, Soul Kitchen, Gegen die Wand, im Juli, Edukators

France movies: Mood indigo, 2 days in Paris, 2 days in New York, Eden is West, paris jetaime, love me if you dare, la mome

American movies: Before sunrise/sunset/midnight, Juno, Trainspotting, Kill Bill, Little Miss Sunshine, Whatever Works, Midnight in Paris, Boyhood, me earl and the dying girl

Spanish movies: Noviembre, Biutiful, Mondays in the sun, L'Auberge Espagnole, Chinese Puzzle

British movies : Sommers Town, This is England, Green Street Hooligans, submarine, The Theory of Everything, black mirror

Italian movies: A Street in Palermo, Il capitale umano, Mine Vaganti, Un giorno perfetto, Room in Rome
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Favourite Directors: Pedro Almodovar, Richard linklater, Fatih Akin, Costa Gavras, Lars von Trier, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Haneke, Shane Meadows, Cedric Klapisch, Woody Allen ...

BOOKS

world classics, existentialism, fiction, psychology, drama, play books

some sample writers : maxim gorky, neil labute, sartre, camus, nietzhe, montaigne, erasmus, charles dickens, brecht, moliere, cehov ..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Burning man is enough by itself... everyone should do it once in a life time. utopic life/city without any materialist things.

-Going to a favela party in Rio De Janeiro being the only one not speaking Portuguese. People partying in a huge poverty regardless.

-Going inside the coffin for Japanese death Festival in Tokyo. It changed my sense of death
other than that;
- Polar Bear Plunge in a cold Pacific sea in first day of the year , snorkeling with sea lions in the middle of the ocean, running between Asia and Europe

Teach, Learn, Share

I always feel happy, you know why? Because I dont expect anything from anyone. Expectations always hurt. Life is short, so love your life, be happy and keep smiling.

W.S

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share how wonderful couchsurfing was before it became a commercial, profit-oriented place

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Turkey, United States

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