CERY 29, Female Istanbul, Istanbul Turkey Friends since October 2009 "my best friend and my husband" Friendship Type: Best Friend I vouched for Hector Monserrate 30+30+30+
JO_LILLA 41, 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 3
Tim Anderson 27, 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 29
FightingFalcon 28, Female Riga, Riga Latvia Friends since July 2006 "we met in Tallinn Backpackers and allways had almost scientific conversations" Friendship Type: Good Friend
Dadka Bartokova 23, Female Banska Bystrica, Banska Bystrica Slovakia Friends since June 2006 "god sent me hector to my life like an angel :D:D" Friendship Type: Best Friend
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When i travel I hate plans and thats why more often than not i travel all by myself. I love to crash on the airport of an unknown city and dont know what to do next, this way i meet a lot more people who usually give me ideas of what to do. This unpredictable feeling makes me excited.
When i am at home I love to take guests around town for my own tours or im always up for a beer.
CouchSurfing Experience
Being a member of CS and HC since mid 2006 i wasn't really that active till i attended the CS NYE in Oslo. Ever since, i was hosted in Helsinki, Berlin, Budapest... and i hosted myself some people in Madrid and Zaragoza. Lately i'm kind of only using CS.
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 don't get these young people with their stupid dreams and world discovering eagerness. Grow-up, get a job, get married, and get over it"
If you think that go and piss your time away by watching tv rather than traveling
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
Overall, its amazingly brilliant. I take my hat off.
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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 :)
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
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 :)
From Patrick Donald Buenos Aires, Argentina Nov 16, 2011
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.
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 .)
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! :)
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.
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.
He is one of us and our enişte.. Hey girls, I have a bad news for you; This handsome man is married with a beautiful Turkish girl.. :)))) hehe
Everybody hang out with him, he is relly reallyyyyyyy full of life..
My friend always keep smiling like i see you all time... Enjoy the rest of your life in Istanbul..
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