Hi friends, my name is Istemi, I am an MSc. Architect living in Ipswich, UK.

Briefly, I studied Bachelor of Architecture in Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul between 2006 and 2014.

While I was studying, I visited numerous places inside and abroad.

Then, from October 2015 to December 2017, I worked at Saudi Arabia as an Architect and in this time I have begun to travel post-Soviet countries such as Russia and Belarus and the Baltics.

Between July 2018 and January 2020 I studied my Master degree in Civil Construction and Real Estate Management in Riga.

Then Pandemic...

During the pandemic, I applied for an entrepreneur visa to the UK, and I have been living in the UK since May 2021.

I remember that, while I was a child, I was drawing always. Because of my parents are teacher, I could find paper and pen always. Then I started to draw geometrical and to be related with graphical design. In my university years, I have found opportunity to set my all interests together: hand-drawing, graphical design and architecture.

My family and friends say that all of them are related with visual memory and intelligence. In conclusion, at the last years, I am related with photography. They are right may be... I cannot think a life without art, that might be terrible!

On the other hand, I have grown with Russian Classics and I want to learn this culture as detailed.

Shortly, I would like to meet with new people while travelling. I believe that I am open-minded person.

If it is asked, my mostly life philosophy is "pessimistism of mind, optimism of effort". By the way, I try to make plan about future, but I live the moment :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meeting new friends and have fun while travelling

you can follow me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/istemialpkose/

Interests

Meeting new people

• architecture
• interior design
• graphic design
• photography
• traveling
• travelling
• watching movies
• reading books
• meeting new people
• new friends
• foreign languages
• foreign cultures
• watching films
• drawings
• black-white

Music, Movies, and Books

My the best books: 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, Clockwork Orange, Crime and Punishment, War and Peace, When Nietzsche Wept, Utopia...

I listen all kind musics but especially I pleasure with European Classical Musics and according to my mood, alternative rock music.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Learning Russian language at Arabian Deserts.

Teach, Learn, Share

Photography, graphical design, hand-drawing, architectural movements, history of places

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share my friendship and we can enjoy.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Latvia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Kingdom