I am a former semi-professional basketball player from Hungary who also played for the National Youth Hungarian Basketball Team from the age of 15 until 20.
When it turned out that I was not going to become (fully) professional, I decided to go to university, and pursue a degree in Economics and Business.
It seems like traveling, exploring, getting into contact with various cultures are both directly and indirectly part of my family and the activities I choose to do.
My dad was born in Kyrgyzstan in a mixed family, then studied in Leningrad/St.Petersburg, then moved to Hungary. More or less, the same thing is happening to me, I was born in Hungary, then moved to the Netherlands to study in English. Then I did summer school at London School of Economics, and currently I am doing a one-year-long exchange programme in Rome, Italy at LUISS Business School.
Moreover, as part of the National Youth Basketball Team of Hungary, I had the privilege of visiting more countries than I could have ever hoped for.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Diversity and traveling are inherent ingredients of my life, therefore, I would like to visit those parts of the world where I haven't been yet, and meet people who could introduce me to the local secretes of their cultures.
Bucket list of destinations:
- Scandinavia
- Latin America
- Caribbean islands
- Canada (Vancouver)
- USA (Seattle)
- New Zealand, Australia
- Jordan (Petra), Israel, Egypt, Morocco
- South Africa (Cape Town, Johannesburg)

Interests

- Sports of any kind, ranging from chess through skiing to ball sports
- Music - except hardcore rock
- Books
- Traditional dishes/food of a particular country Im currently visiting

• dogs
• books
• dining
• chess
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• skiing
• sports
• basketball
• business
• economics

Music, Movies, and Books

- The most recent book I read is from Frank Pasquale titled 'The Blackbox Society: The secret algorithms that control money and information', which is about the collection of Big Data and how the corporate world and governments secretly interplay to use them to their (competitive) advantage

Also:
Thinking fast and slow (Kahneman)
Gold Standard - Rules to Rule by (Ari Gold)
101 lessons they don't teach you in business school (Haroun)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once I rescued a dog from drowning
(Im a dog-lover, we got 2 dogs back home)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Goulash from Hungary

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands