CURRENT MISSION
not to forget

ABOUT ME
I am a graduate student, live music and performance arts addict and I am really curios about people. I want to know about them, I want to understand them.

I am pursuing my PhD in Electrical Engineering at UCLA. Altough I don't have a lot of time to travel, I try to make use of every single chance that I can couchsurf!

I can get excited from a lot of different stuff. Sometimes work, sometimes a cat, a song, a poem, a book, a candle, a radio story, an IPA or a person.

I developed great friendships with my past fellow couchsurfers and hosts, I mean it. Yeah, CS is great and I've never met a single un-cool person through CS yet.

Usually I forget things very fast including my journeys that's why I am trying to make my travel adventures as remarkable as possible and that's where CS comes in!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I surfed in Europe and USA, and established great friendships, shared amazing moments with CSers. As cheesy as it sounds, I think this is a platform that actually contributes to the world peace!

Interests

Film Photography.

Piano,
Classical music,
Any good music,
Musicals,
Well, any performance art actually.

Eating,
Cooking,
Baking,
Beer (IPA, I love)
Wine.

Running,
Hiking,
Researching,
Panicking,
Podcasts.

and Traveling.

• cats
• arts
• books
• performing arts
• photography
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• baking
• running
• traveling
• podcasts
• darts
• music
• live music
• classical music
• piano
• hiking
• paragliding
• engineering

Music, Movies, and Books

Just some samples:

Music: Chopin, Beethoven, Fazıl Say, Satie
Beach House, Vampire Weekend, The Mumlers, Dark Dark Dark
Regina Spektor, Norah Jones, Andrew Bird, Radiohead
Tony Rice, David Grisman, Black Prairie
Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Sidney Bechet, Bueno Vista Social Club
Little Joy, Father John Misty, Nils Frahm

Movies: Mommy, Mustang, The Room, The 25th Hour, Once, Fight Club, The Hours, Fifty First Dates, Old Boy, Triplets of Belleville, Mary & Max, The Boyhood

Books:
Ask the Dust (John Fante)
The Summer of Katya (Travenian)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Conquest of Happiness (Bertrand Russell)
Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
I am a Strange Loop (Douglas Hofstadter)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Paragliding half-drunk in Oludeniz/Turkey,
Hearing people harmonizing,
Sharing a laugh,
The old man at East Jesus in Niland, CA.

Teach, Learn, Share

I am willing to learn anything that I dont know! But of course I dont have to learn something necessarily.I can teach playing piano, anything about musicals, cooking some Turkish food, playing darts and how to explore LA! We can also go to some musicals or plays, see some live music if you are willing to. I am a huge fan of performance arts and totally addicted to live music. Just let me know that in your request.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Croatia, France, Iceland, India, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Italy, Turkey, United States