First of all hi! My name is Erdem and I'm 25 years old who lives in İzmir/Bornova with my flatmates (Lamin from Cameroon/Yavuz from Turkey). I do mechanical engineering for living. I'm into philosophy, science and existensial crisis sometimes. I must say :p I was an erasmus student and I miss those days because I'd met so many foreign people and became friends with most of them, it was privilege to have that for me. I bet you can get along very well with me i mean i hope so :p I like jogging and playing football (I dont like watching matches) but not a sporty guy :/ I always carry a book in my backpack. I value friendship, chasing after the truth and science. I smoke tobacco, I' like to drink booze, I make my own beer and I smoke green stuff sometimes ;). I'd tried playing drums, violin and guitar but i think im not a player :d and one last thing, one reason to live this life would be a music for me: https://open.spotify.com/user/erdemermis?si=K8hfkuLpQhKMx3QH3QhALA

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To be honest at first saving people from paying for accommodation and it's a good chance to meet people from other countries or cities. But the most important thing is that I'm curious about people's world-view.

Interests

• chess
• traveling
• camping
• table tennis
• engineering
• philosophy
• albert camus
• jogging
• booze
• talking
• playing football
• riding bike
• seinfeld
• king's cup
• nazım hikmet
• writing essays

Music, Movies, and Books

Pink floyd/Radiohead/Blochead/Erik Satie/Fazıl Say/Solomun/Moderat/SoaD/Darkside/Cem Karaca/Selda Bağcan/ Massive Attack/Portishead/Blur/Apparat/Farid Farjad/Ramin Djawadi

Withnail and I/The Sunset Limited/Once upon a time in Anatolia/The Man from Earth/Baraka/ Oslo:31 August/The Godfather 2/Stalker/Bicycle Thieves/Seventh Seal

Inside Notes from Underground/The Myth of Sisyphus/Thus spoke Zarathustra/Nausea/In Praise of Idleness/Tehlikeli Oyunlar

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

King's day in Amsterdam, / Visiting Kafka's city / listening Fazıl Say on Mount Ida / being a host on CS

Teach, Learn, Share

Language exchange, talking about trip memories and life experiences, actually you will see when you come :p

What I Can Share with Hosts

My home is their home too. (Mi casa es su casa)

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Turkey