CURRENT MISSION

travelling from Istanbul to Paris together with my boyfriend

ABOUT ME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4CDc9yCAqE

PHILOSOPHY

Let's keep that for a talk over a beer :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Online, tiny puny. Just joined.
Offline, humongous! A sleep-over expert.

Interests

getting into feisty discussions with friends
pancakes
getting into feisty discussions with anyone
theories of representation
cycling
Belgian and Dutch beer
chocolate cake
morality of consumption
The Wire
dedusting my ukulele and learning how to play it
post-colonialism

...

• chocolate
• beer
• marathon
• walking
• traveling
• cycling
• baseball

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies

Persona, The Graduate, Spring Summer Autumn Winter Spring, The Decalogue, 400 Blows, Annie Hall, In the Mood for Love, Drive, Umberto D, Clockwork Orange, Waking Life, La Strada, ... let's talk about movies over a beer as well :)

Music

(from the random tracks on my player now) Radiohead, Portishead, Bjork, Apparat, Gotan Project, Slow Blow, Mum, Explosions in the Sky, Andrew Bird, Nosaj Thing, Notwist, Teodora Enache, ...

Books

The Little Prince, Brave New World, Zenobia, Wild Sheep Chase, 1984, ... plays by Ionesco, Pinter and Pirandello,... anything by Marin Sorescu...

+ many geeky ones, from urban anthropology to consumption studies, from phenomenology to political theory

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Jumping off a biiiig waterfall in Spain with my boyfriend, Samuel.
Eating a whole goat with my friend Tymon and the Maasai men in the village where I lived in Tanzania.
Going to a baseball game in Binghamton, New York, after a travelling marathon of 3 days (Nairobi-Istanbul-Amsterdam-Alkmaar-New York).
Seeing Portishead live in a roman theatre in France.

Teach, Learn, Share

What a great idea!

Taking photographs.
Using photographs in research.
Editing photographs.
Editing text.
Making borş.
Making delish chocolate cake in 10 min.
Walking with your eyes closed.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Hungary, Kenya, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, Romania, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States