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A solo traveler visited 95 countries (August 2022) with IT career and higher education in California. Volunteered some years in earthquake zones and developing countries. 100 days sailing in the Caribbean. A mountains lover, competitive swimmer as a teenager, adventurous traveler, friend of CATS, a simple human beings who enjoy organizing quiet homes. Video made in August 2021 in Sri Lanka Introducing Teacher Annie in 2 minutes 20 seconds https://youtu.be/5NCLZt3piUM ***Warning*** Zero tolerance of men using Couchsurfing as Tinder or Dating App. Asian women are neither pornstar nor Thai massage. Please respect your hard working wife. Be a wise man. LIFE MISSION Experience and explore the world as much as possible when I am healthy and still young. Friendships Worldwide. Offered my helping hands to those in need. Work hard, study hard and play hard. Dream to own 2 guesthouses in different continents as a local community hub when I reach 55 years old. ABOUT ME Solo traveler who has visited 90 countries (November 2021) Have organized 400+ events in Hong Kong since 2012. Founder of Hong Kong Happy Hiking Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/happyhiking). Active in hiking, swimming, kayaking, etc. Grew up in Hong Kong - 13 years in all girls' Catholic school that school principal preferred us to play music but not sports. Parents expected me to study in university to become either a piano teacher or secretary in an office. Studied and worked 15 years in USA - university, graduate schools and worked at Sony Electronics, Oracle Consulting partner, Clorox, Applied Biosystems, etc. Since May 2008 Sold all my stuffs, quit a good job, left the comfort zone, went to Sichuan China to volunteer in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake relief effort for two year. First as an independent solo volunteer, later worked with Japanese NGO from Kobe and other foreigners' groups. An unforgettable experience ever. Happened in 2009 Volunteered independently as English teacher, farmer, health care worker, janitor, babysitter.... in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet, China, Thailand and Japan. Happened in 2010 Traveled 8 countries in the Middle East and southern Europe for 3 months. Couch surfed total a month in several countries. Problem with hosts in Athens and Istanbul using CS as dating/sex hunting site. Happened in 2011 Volunteered in Japan earthquake/tsunami relief work for 2 months From 2012 Active hiking leader. Have organized +400 outdoor activities (hiking, kayaking, canyoning, cultural visits, etc.) in Hong Kong Happened in 2013-2014 Survived from sexual assaults and an abusive relationship with a medical doctor. I learned a lot about personality disorders and mental illness from this experience. The doctor appeared to be a gentleman who loves children, animals and patients. Business Traveling in 2013-2014 Qingdao, Pingyao, Chengdu, Laos, Myanmar with executive clients Backpacking travel in 2013-2014 Myanmar (December 27 days) Thailand Chiang Mai hiking group 2 months in 2015 (March-April) Malaysia Borneo (Singapore-Sawarak-Sabah-Penang-HK) Visited 6 national parks, including Mt. Kinabalu 2 months in 2015 (August-October) Istanbul > Bulgaria > Romania > Hungary > Slovakia > Czech > Austria > Germany > Liechtenstein > Switzerland > Italy > Slovenia > Croatia > Bosnia > Montenegro > Albania > Serbia > Kosovo > Macedonia > Greece > Istanbul 3 weeks in December 2015 Fiji Islands 5 months in 2016 (July 18 to December 14) Hong Kong, Taipei, Istanbul (a day after military coop), Netherlands 16 days, France 18 days, Iceland 10 days, Stockholm 8 days, Norway 1 month, western Sweden, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Portugal 16 days, Spain Andalusia, Morocco 17 days, London, Bangkok, Taipei, Hong Kong Happening in 2017 My father underwent an orthopedic surgery which costed me US$20,000. Although stressful and difficult living in a financial city Hong Kong, I am trying to spend more time with him. April 16 days Southern Vietnam May 8 days Hunan China October 2017 A 27-day super challenging trip with my mother to Greece and Italy as her 70th birthday present. November 2017 - February 2018 Traveled from Italy to Bristol UK and took a flight to Toronto. Crossed the border at Niagara Falls. Renewed my US Permanent Residency Card in Washington DC. Visited many museums. February - June 2018 Backpacking in Cuba and hopped on a sailing boat for 100 days. Sailed Cuba to Jamaica 28 hours. Sailed around Jamaica. Sailed a very tough 7-day passage Jamaica to Puerto Rico. Sailed around Puerto Rico. Left the sailing boat on my 100th day due to NARCISSISTIC ABUSE. Took ferry from Puerto Rico to Dominican Republic and resumed backpacking. Stopped by Belgium for hiking, flew Hong Kong to visit my father's heart surgery. July 2018 Healing from narcissistic abuse August - October 2018 Inner Mongolia > Mongolia > Siberia Russia (laptop, hard disk, journal were all stolen by Russian THIEF) > Northeast China > North Korea November - December 2018 Kyoto Japan Chiang Mai for father's 78 birthday January 2019 Phillippines El Nido, Coron March - June 2019 New Zealand South Island 45 days, North Island 27 days Melbourne 6 days June 2019 Presentations at Travel Expo Hong Kong Convention Center July 2019 Vietnam Phu Quoc Family trip with parents Malaysia KL, Ipoh, Penang festivals August - November 2019 Nice > Genoa > Lake Garda (Hospital) > Dolomites > Prague > Wroclaw > Krakow > Zakopane > Przemyśl > Lviv > Odesa > Moldova > Kiev > Minsk > Vilinus > Warsaw > Marseille > Nice > Beijing > DaTong > Hong Kong November 2019 Celebrated 79 years old father's birthday in Sabah Malaysia Completed Rescue Diver Training December 2019 Parents to Zhuhai and Macau January 2020 Recovery and Work February 2020 to September 2021 30 days Sri Lanka was the plan but I eventually lived on the island 19 months and 10 days. Fought the battles of 2 sexual harassment court cases. 2 Sri Lankan men got sentences and criminal records. Attacked by dogs 2 times. Taught English to underprivileged village children. Experienced a life as Sri Lankan under Covid situation managed by a highly corrupted government. October 2021 Dubai Expo 2020 Figuring out the next destination as Hong Kong still requires 21 days hotel quarantine and no room availability already in November or December 2021
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Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing
Before Couchsurfing website was born....... First homestay at 4 years old with a Japanese family. Home stays during business trips in USA, instead of staying in star hotels. Spontaneous home stays on the road. Surfed and hosted through friends, friend's referrals, Craigslist, WWOOF networks, etc. Simply love to meet with people that I surfed sometimes even when I was on business trips. CouchSurfing has given me both positive (genuine friendships, cultural exchange) and negative experience (sexual harassment, verbal harassment, narcissistic personality disorders). I have encountered at least 50 men through Couchsurfing that they were hunting for one time or short term SEX. Not that I am a woman who negatively see men but to save some people's precious time, please use other social media platform or go straight to red light districts. Other than the sex hunters, there are also people who prefer very stable lifestyles and unhappy marriages but look for couchsurfers (potential lovers) to share entertaining stories. This is not exactly healthy and not doing to build genuine friendships. I have hosted a man from Argentina who claimed himself in a super happy marriage but appeared to me as a man with big EGO. He was very determined to make himself happy and did not care about the host at all. He enjoyed talking about himself so much that I was very exhausted listening to his lies. Couchsurfing is an adventure, isn't it?
Musique, films et livres
My driving experience in USA - 10 years of daily 20-60 miles commute to work - Cross country trip 36 states, 2 months, 13,000 miles in 2003 by my own car, a manual 6-speed Matrix. Slept in car at rest area on highway every other night and some camping at national parks. - Driving my parents to visit Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Utah national parks, Las Vegas. My driving experience in Europe - Southeastern France 2005 - Cappadocia Turkey 2010 - Greek islands and slept in cars by the seaside 2010 - Iceland highland off-road and south coast 2016 - Norway Bergen, Stavanger, Kongsberg 2016
Une chose incroyable que j'ai faite
Volunteered several years without earning income. Can you do something without getting paid? Made the decision and studied abroad in USA when ALL family members were against the idea. Financially supported myself since 2nd year university and attended graduate school in USA when my bank account balance went negative. Earned the US Green Card at 11th year of living in US through employment with higher education. 3 years in Sichuan China earthquake affected villages. I did tent-surfing, camp-surfing, ground-surfing with the villagers. Sichuan is now my second home. 2 months in Japan tsunami affected towns/villages. 2 months teaching in Nepal remote mountain village. 2 months in Japan living and working at organic farm. 3 months in India of intensive training of backpacking skills. Met many fellows travelers on the road who have worked hard and inspired others.
Ce que je peux offrir à mes hôtes
Genuine friendships, travel experience, positive life perspectives. Message to a special group of people Couchsurfing is NOT dating site. STOP using Couchsurfing for sex or submissive Asian wife hunting!!! NON-SMOKING Environment ONLY
Mes centres d'intérêt
Backpacking Travel, Cultural Exchange, Mountains Hiking, Water Sports, Volunteering, Recycling, NGO