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Santa Clara, Utah, United States
@MULTILINGUAL
Member since 2011
CURRENT MISSION My current mission is to speak as many languages fluently as there are while alive, to be able to play the piano as well as Liberace, to be a master at mixed martial arts, to beat class C chess players blindfolded, to beat ping pong 🏓 players rated 1500. ABOUT ME Hello. My name is Joe Wu. I am a single, unattached, fully-blooded Chinese man, born and raised in the United States. I have lived in Taiwan, France, Germany, Orange county California, and China in that order. Therefore, I can converse in Mandarin Chinese, French, German, and Spanish. I can also speak Swedish and Esperanto. I speak Hungarian and Japanese, but both to lesser extents. Finally, I can get by in Italian, Dutch, and to a smaller degree Russian. I now live in St. George, Utah right next to Santa Clara. I am NOT a Mormon. Sincerely, Joe Wu PHILOSOPHY How do you live your life? Wait until the couch surfing host meets me in case our philosophies are diametrically opposed. Since I am very political, you may believe something different than I do. It's all right with me just as long as you are kind to me.
Interested in Animals
Interested in Billiards
Fluent in English
Learning Sign Language - American
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Traveling, surfing the internet, activities... there’s a lot to do here. What’s your favorite way to get involved? Smoking is not allowed where I live. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE What kinds of experiences have you had through CouchSurfing? None yet. I'm new to it. I used to be a member of SERVAS, another host-based club.
Music, Movies, and Books
Forgive me. The list of interests would not post in the order I listed them. I love all sorts of movies, music, and books. Let the couch host ask me which ones when they meet me.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Share a story of something that really struck you. My life in China. I'll tell you about it when I see you.
Teach, Learn, Share
What kinds of skills or information could you share with someone? What would you like to learn? I could teach you some foreign languages at the beginning level, English, how to play the piano, international chess, and mathematics. I tutored a high school student that went from a D to a 100% on his final in mathematics.
What I Can Share With Hosts
I can help with chores, I can help them with their English and other languages. I can play the piano for them. I can play international chess, the card game called "bridge", and ping pong with them.
My Interests
What do you like to do in your free time? I like to speak, listen to, and to study foreign languages. I like to play classical, easy listening, ragtime piano music and to improvise my own jazz and I listen to piano music every day. I enjoy watching all kinds of T.V. programs and I get a big kick out of going to movies. I practice and watch Jeet Kune Do which was created by Bruce Lee and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. I am an avid chess enthusiast. I also get on the internet a lot. I can speak with anybody anywhere and preferably a language other than English. When I meet you, I would love to speak your language, but if you would rather learn English from me, I would be glad to trade teaching each other our native languages because I already taught English in China and this city in schools.
