Turkish/Cypriot//Neuroscientist//WorldTraveller//Amateur Photographer//

I'm a curious human being who loves to meet new people and to listen to their stories and share mine. After an AFS exchange year in the US during high school, I could not be contained in a single place. Luckily, attending New York University in Shanghai has allowed me to be mobile during my college years.

I swing dance and also love contact improv. I love exploring places, looking at art, journaling, and drawing. I love making things; a song, a drawing, a photograph, and idea.

I love hearing striking, new ways of living that are different from mine. I stand against ageism, sexism, racism... -isms of all kinds.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Staying with locals is always the highlight of my trips. I learn so much about the place I visit, but also adding faces to places make them so much more memorable

Music, Movies, and Books

Be my Goodreads friend!

Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time
Oliver Sacks - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Brene Brown - I Thought It Was Just Me But It Isn't
Albert Camus - Stranger
Yalom - When Nietzsche Wept
Erich Fromm - To Have or To Be?
Maggie Nelson - Bluets

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Made gifts and danced around NYC while giving everyone gifts and smiles!

Scuba diving in the Aegean for a week with a team of documentarists who were shooting a documentary about conservation of aquatic life!

Leaving home at the age of 16 to live with a family in a country I haven't been before!

Teach, Learn, Share

“Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.” - Baha'ullah

"I think everybody should love everybody." - Andy Warhol

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bermuda, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United States, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Ghana, Turkey, United States