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Hector Monserrate

Current Mission: learning Turkish

Personal Designations

Community Designations

CS Team Member Family Ambassador (Istanbul)
Pioneer
BaseCamp Collective Istanbul Collective
Turkey
Istanbul
Istanbul


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General Information
Hector Monserrate is a CS Family Ambassador!
Hector Monserrate has been vouched for
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Hector Monserrate is online right now!
member sinceJuly 15th, 2006
profile views8,169
age29
genderMale
membernameHECTORUPS
occupationSW Engineer
grew up inZaragoza (Spain)
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Languages

  • EnglishIntermediate
  • Spanish (Spain)Expert
  • ItalianBeginner
  • TurkishBeginner

Groups I Belong To

Tunis 1551:3850Beşiktaş 261:58
Why: i live in Besiktas. Im even fond of the football team
Zaragoza 951:4267Istanbul 40771:89796
Why: Going to Istanbul CS Collective
Active in 14 more groups.

Couch Information


No couch currently available for surfing.

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Besiktas. 20 mins walking to taksim and 30 minutes by ferry to kadikoy.

I live with my wife Ceren in a very small apartment which I also use as my office and that is the reason I am not able to host at the moment.

Friends (205)

ReloadedInfiniteReloadedInfinite
35, Male
Istanbul, Istanbul
Turkey
Friends since June 2010
"Met him lots of time in Istanbul meetings"
Friendship Type: Best Friend
I vouched for Hector Monserrate
Met in person  
CERYCERY
29, Female
Istanbul, Istanbul
Turkey
Friends since October 2009
"my best friend and my husband"
Friendship Type: Best Friend
I vouched for Hector Monserrate
Met in person   Hosted30+   Surfed30+   Traveled30+  
Ismael ViejoIsmael Viejo
29, Male
Zaragoza, Aragon
Spain
Friends since July 1998
"Rowing"
Friendship Type: Best Friend
Met in person  
Andras Foldvari Andras Foldvari
59, Male
Budapest, Budapest
Hungary
Friends since August 2008
"Canoe tour in Hungary"
Friendship Type: Best Friend
I vouched for Hector Monserrate
Met in person   Hosted3   Surfed6   Traveled27  
Gokhan SezerGokhan Sezer
33, Male
Istanbul, Istanbul
Turkey
Friends since January 2010
"I met him in a friends wedding :p"
Friendship Type: Best Friend
Met in person  
Tim AndersonTim Anderson
28, Male
Caernarfon, Gwynedd
Wales
Friends since July 2006
"We met in Estonia where we both worked in the summer of 2006. We had many drunken nights out and a couple of road trips to Riga and Vilnius."
Friendship Type: Close Friend
Met in person   Traveled29  
JO_LILLA JO_LILLA
42, Female
Vasteras, Vastmanland
Sweden
Friends since July 2008
"we met in a hostel in Basel and he tag me along on CS"
Friendship Type: Close Friend
I vouched for Hector Monserrate
Met in person   Traveled3  
Sebastiaan van Ineveld Sebastiaan van Ineveld
26, Male
The Hague, Zuid-Holland
Netherlands
Friends since August 2008
"CS Canoe trip Hungary"
Friendship Type: Close Friend
I vouched for Hector Monserrate
Met in person   Hosted1   Surfed2   Traveled15  
Darío GalianoDarío Galiano
33, Male
Madrid, Madrid
Spain
Friends since February 2004
"University"
Friendship Type: Close Friend
I vouched for Hector Monserrate
Met in person   Hosted7   Surfed7   Traveled7  
Colleen SollarsColleen Sollars
37, Female
San Francisco, California
United States
Friends since July 2009
"working for CS!"
Friendship Type: Good Friend
I vouched for Hector Monserrate
Met in person   Traveled30+  
Hector Monserrate
Taking notes at the Istanbul Conference 10/2011
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Personal Description

dreams only last this long.

CouchSurfing Experience

PEOPLE I HOSTED:

Darío Galiano 7 days

Julia Castro 5 days

Martina 6 days

Liza 4 days

Jasper 4 days

Amalia 5 days

Lori 2 days

Cai trefor 6 days

Andras Foldvari 3 days

Sebastian 2 days

Cédric Duliere 1 days

Noa 1 days

Dan 1 days

Frederic Sultus 7 days

Julia 2 days

Vesi 1 days

Joni 2 days

Markus 1 days

Evelien 12 days

Oznur 2 days

Birgit&Alex 2 days

Khaled 3 days

John 9 days

Sebastian 1 days

Irina 5 days

Cyril 5 days

Pierre 5 days

Patricio 2 days

John 3 days


Charly 3 days

Pavlina 2 days

I WAS HOSTED BY:

Priya 1 days

Darío Galiano 7 days

Vince 4 days

Tamas 1 days

Gabriela 3 days

JOãO RIBAS 3 days

Cédric Duliere 1 days

Baratech 1 days

Alina 1 days

Jeroen Geerdink 3 days

Andras Foldvari 2 days

Sebastian 2 days

Mat 1 days (in NYC)

Lara 2 days

Rory 1 days

Manuela 3 days

Gönenç 3 days

Erin 1 days

Lola 1 days

Tony Truant 2 days (Barna)

Dejan 1 days

Mare 1 days

Viktoria 4 days

Christian 4 days

Vipar 3 days

Andreas 2 days

Lukas 2 days

Pierre 5 days

Anil 2 days

BIG EVENTS:

CS NYE Party 07/08 in Oslo

'Free Hugs' & 'Pillow fight' event in London 2008

CS Paella 2008 in Switzerland

CS Canoe Tour 08 in Hungary

Organizing Reunion&Triple Bday party in Belgium (October 08)

LIY in Lisbon, over 300 ppl (November 08)

Marseille invasion (December 08)

Brasov Spring Camp (Romania, March 09)

Utrecht Midsummernight (Netherlands, June 09)

Movie Nights at Basecamp (US, Summer 09)

Bulgarian-Romanian meeting (spring 10)

Vienna Calling 1010

Interests

I like meeting and having friends of all possible kinds and places. I love hearing stories (above all traveler's ones). I'm becoming addictive to CS events, i find CS a brilliant tool to organize and get different people together.

I also like stamina sports such as running, swimming or biking, spend shit loads of time on it. Its turned out to be an excellent way to make good friends anywhere. these kind of sports look unsocial and too individual... but actually they make people challenge themselves to the limit and that really brings people together

Philosophy

what comes around goes around. And this is true!

Anybody can talk the talk but just a few actually walk the walk

Music, Movies, Books

yesss, please

Types of People I enjoy

i like pretty much all friendly, happy people. My friends are the ones who share some interest with me or just smile at me (:

One Amazing Thing I've Seen or Done

a Marathon (3 times)

/ Working in an internship in Ireland and going to uni in the UK... at the same time

Working in Tallinn while living/volunteering in a backpackers hostel (tallinnbackpackers) for 8 months

Training for 7 months in Galileo Triathlon club

Living and working in CS Basecamp (San Francisco)

Falling in love in Turkey

Opinion on the CouchSurfing.org Project

I like the OCRs functionality!! :D

Locations Traveled

LIVED: Estonia, Ireland (Republic of), Italy, Spain, Turkey, Wales


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References (132)

  • 131Positive
  • 1Neutral
  • 0Negative
  • 25From Hosts
  • 28From Surfers
  • 40Traveling
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Neco Fil
From Neco Fil
 Istanbul, Turkey
 Mar 18
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Traveled 2 days 
Positive

Hector ıs a very good person, always helpfull, talktavıve, pozıtıf:))

Alper Tekin
From Alper Tekin
 Istanbul, Turkey
 Dec 1, 2011
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Hector is a smiling guy, always similling... :) He is so friendly and humorous. He told me about the background of CS and what he does now for CS. Wish to meet you more and have fun together :)

Gokhan Sezer
From Gokhan Sezer
 Istanbul, Turkey
 Nov 28, 2011
Met in person Best Friend,  
Positive

CS is a really nice website.I am really thankful to CS that i made some real friends here.Hector is one of those people.He's decent,logical,happy guy.He is always ready to help.Sometimes he's teaching me some useful spanish sentences ;)I'm really curious when i'll visit Spain how the girls will react when they're gonna hear that sentences :D

Melis Hazal CALGAN
From Melis Hazal CALGAN
 Istanbul, Turkey
 Nov 19, 2011
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Hector is the first person i met in the cs meeting.Even though i broke his i-Pad(which actually isn't broken) and came to the meeting late,he still helped me greatly.He is a great teacher :)

Patrick Donald
From Patrick Donald
 Buenos Aires, Argentina
 Nov 16, 2011
Met in person Friend, Surfed 3 days  
Positive

Este chaval es un tío con toda la buena vibra y super way! Es un buen amigo, anfitrión y sabe divertirse. Si el grupo de Istanbul tiene buena vibra, gran merito es su pro-actividad para con el mismo. Gran experiencia que me hace extrañarlo enormemente.

Koray the Türk
From Koray the Türk
 Istanbul, Turkey
 Nov 14, 2011
Met in person Friend,  
Positive

He is nice, great, everytime possitive, helpful, kind and bla bla bla. Sometimes it makes me envy to describe a cool guy. Hector is that. joking apart if you are his friend it means that you are lucky .)

Doan Polat
From Doan Polat
 Istanbul, Turkey
 Nov 11, 2011
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

he is our ambassador :) trustable, helpful, talkative and positive! good organizer as well, anytime he does his best for the solutions..
Hectooooor! el hombre perfecto! :)

Engin Ertan 
From Engin Ertan
 Istanbul, Turkey
 Nov 3, 2011
Met in person Friend,  
Positive

It's always nice, each time I meet him.
Hector is a vital member of the Ist. group.

ALI999
From ALI999
 Istanbul, Turkey
 Sep 29, 2011
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

There isn't much to say about Hector that hasn't already been said. He's such a genuinely lovely, friendly guy who seems to have a permanent smile on his face who reflects the true CS ethos and spirit. Here's to more fun times ahead.

Bora Eke 
From Bora Eke
 Izmir, Turkey
 Sep 27, 2011
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Surfed 2 days  
Positive

Hector is a great person. We had meet first while I was surfing CS Istanbul Collective. He does a lot for CS. He does not speaks much. However He is honest and tactful. We have a Turkish saying express him; "Adam gibi Adam - An Upright Man" I highly trust him. It was great to meet at Istanbul Conference again. Thanks for helping me participating in CS more. See you my friend.


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