CURRENT MISSION

Studying and Climbing

ABOUT ME

Our names are Asli and Tyler. Asli is from a beautiful place in southern Turkey, came to Istanbul for university and never left. Tyler wandered to Istanbul from the states a couple years ago, and never left. We teach English to support our coffee, beer, and travel addictions.

PHILOSOPHY

Live every week like it is shark week.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We have a place for people to stay in a great city, and can show people around if we have free time. If we're working, at the very least we can make recommendations for things to do, then hang out at night. Sometime in the future we would like to surf to couches beyond.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We joined this year, and we've already had several wonderful guests. Couchsurfing has been great to us so far, the people we've met have been great fun and interesting.

Interests

Travel, Music, History, Anthropology, Literature, Photography, Rock Climbing, Learning New Things

• culture
• literature
• photography
• dining
• beer
• coffee
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• rock climbing
• anthropology
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Too many, but here are some:

Writers: Dostoevsky, Haruki Murakami, W.G. Sebald, Umberto Eco, Hemingway, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Kafka

Music: boards of canada, why?, subtle, odd nosdam, bjork, radiohead, aphex twin, old country like Patsy Cline, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, isis, red sparowes, boris, merzbow, duman, good hip hop

Films: Annie Hall, Wild Strawberries, Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam (aka Turkish Star Wars), In the Mood For Love, 2046, The Vertical Ray of The Sun, The Seventh Seal, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Wristcutters: A Love Story, Rushmore, After the Wedding, Happy Together, Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Rashomon, It's a Wonderful Life, Zhang Yimou's earlier films

Tv: Arrested Development, Extras, 30 Rock, Breaking Bad, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Game of Thrones

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Just one? alright. Tyler has been rock climbing in America, Europe, and Asia

Teach, Learn, Share

We can teach you English. haha. No, seriously, we would love to talk and share some of our knowledge about Turkish culture, history, food, and drink, and we are always interested in learning about those things from other places.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Turkey, United States

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