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Overview

  • 11 references 9 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Turkish; learning German
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Purchasing Specialist in white goods sector
  • Mechanical Engineer & MBA
  • From Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To travel around the world as much as I can and meet local people in order to digest their culture and language better.

ABOUT ME

I am open minded and very liberal person who likes to travel around the world and get to know different cultures, languages and cusines.

I enjoy the life as much as I can. Old Tibetan saying "Life is what you make of it"

I work as sales manager in Electromechanical components business.

PHILOSOPHY

If there were no bad in the world, you wouldnt know the meaning of good.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

After the disaster I had in my travel to Paris with a local tour, I figured out that I would be much more successful planning my own trip. I heard about this website from a friend and I think even I could not find a free couch in my travel abroad, any advise or meeting is a plus for me.

Interests

Photography, Scuba Diving and Skiing are my major interests.

  • culture
  • photography
  • dining
  • tv
  • traveling
  • camping
  • scuba diving
  • skiing
  • swimming
  • business
  • languages
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: I read tons of emails at work so my performance in book reading unfortunately decreased after graduating from university. The recent book I am trying to read and finish is Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. I also like books like Freakonomics by Steven D Levitt and I read non-fiction books if I need to clear my head and I like dragons :)

Movies: 12 Angry Men, Inception, Star Wars Series, The Shawshank Redemption, The Usual Suspects, In to the Wild, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Se7en, Memento, The Green Mile, Reservoir Dogs, Ethernal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Lord of the Rings, Sin City, V for Vendetta, American History X, Matrix 1, Terminator 2, The Shining, Back to the Future, Alien

Shows: Fringe, Lost, Lost Room, Game of Thrones, Dexter, Person of Interest, Lie to me, FlashForward, South Park, Friends, Coupling (UK version), Spartacus, The IT Crowd, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, The Mentalist, Nip/Tuck,The 4400, Las Vegas, ALF:)

Music: changes according to my mood; rock, rap, hip-hop, pop, jazz, classiccal, heavy metal, R&B; practically everything apart from country and arabesque.

Food: Korean (barbeque and soju), Japanese (sushi, all kinds of raw fish and sake ), Thai (in USA, the real Thai food in Thailand sucks), Mediterranean, Mexican (love tacos) and ofcourse the best cuisine in the world Turkish food:)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was practicing to hold my breath when I was in highscool just to have fun. After some time I hit the personal record of mine 2 mins. 38 seconds under the water without breathing. One year later I was in a summer camp in Malibu CA. They took us to the beaches around CA. One time in the beach I was talking to a friend inside the ocean, the water was around my waist and she was standing on the beach. I saw my friends eyes widened and I looked back. There was a huge wave in front of my nose. I just took a very deep breath for that second and the wave got me. I couldnt count how many times it flip-floped me but I was trying to find the land and air and it every time hit me on the bottom of the sea. I hit my head several times also but fortunately I managed to swim on top of the water and after to the land. They told me I was in the water more than 2 minutes and they were shocked how I did survive. The lifeguards were there asking me how I was. I thought about my practice at that second and what would happen if I didnt practice for fun.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach how to take photos with my pro cam. I always love to learn about different cultures, language and cusine. I can share information about the city I live. I have a lot of information about Turkish food and special restaurants. I also have a very wide range of movie database and surfers can use the wide screen tv in the saloon and watch a good movie.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lebanon, Maldives, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Turkey, United States

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