*please do not contact me outside of couchsurfing if we have not talked on couchsurfing yet. I put my Instagram (business profile) on this account as a reference since I don't have many references. It is not a place to look for my phone number and email and contact me on other platforms. It makes me uncomfortable when that happens and get an anonymous phone call. Please! Just message me here.*

Now on to my intro... :)

I am a freshman at Amherst College, MA, but my home base is in Surrey (or Vancouver, BC) and my plan is to pursue environmental studies and mechanical engineering. Then I will be able to help the world with the help it needs. I believe that the world as it is right now is somewhat crumbling due to man's iron fist—what with climate change, child exploitation/trafficking, or fundamental human rights.

Yo soy una estudiante en Surrey (o Vancouver, BC) y mi objetivo es a estudiar las ciencias Environmental y ingeniero en universidad. Entonces, voy a ser capaz a ayudar el mundo con la ayuda que necesita. Creo que el mundo como es ahora es desmoronándose porque de los humanos—cambio climática, las derechas de humanos, y más.

I am on Couchsurfing—as opposed to Airbnb, hostels, hotels, etc.—because I love to hear people's perspectives and how they differ with mine. And if I can hear contrasting perspectives from around the world, that is even more enriching. I'd like to travel the world and make friends along the way.

Estoy en Couchsurfing—y no en Airbnb, hoteles, etc.—porque me amo escuchar las perspectivas de gente y como ellos difieren con los míos. Y si puedo aprender las perspectivas contrastantes de todo el mundo, esa es más enriquecedor que cualquier otra cosa. Quiero viajar el mundo y hacer amigos por el camino.

I love to have deep conversations about dreams, politics, history, music, philosophy, or simply anything mind-boggling.

Me encanta tener conversaciones profundas sobre sueños, política, historia, música, filosofía o simplemente cualquier cosa alucinante.

My central philosophy is this: the world isn't mine but mine to make better. Also, do whatever makes you happy as long as it doesn't come at the expense of someone else's happiness.

Mi filosofía central es esta: el mundo no es mío sino mío para mejorar. Además, haz lo que sea que te haga feliz siempre que no sea a costa de la felicidad de otra persona.

My Instagram account is @allie.ho so you can check me out and know that I am real and check out what I'm up to!

¡Mi cuenta de Instagram es @ allie.ho para que pueda verme y saber que soy real y ver lo que estoy haciendo!

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

Like most people on this platform: to learn about each other's cultures and experiences.

兴趣

I've been learning music since the age of 3 playing piano, trumpet, bass, french horn, and more. I've played club volleyball for 5 years and am an aspiring backpacker.

• environment
• music
• hiking
• backpacking
• volleyball
• philosophy
• beach volleyball
• conservation
• environmentalism
• pride

音乐、电影和书籍

Music

Jazz: Jacob Collier, Jim Hall, Pat Metheny, Esperanza Spalding, Sammy Nestico, Trombone Shorty, Tristan Paxton, Kamasi Washington... The list goes on.
Classical: Elgar, Rachmaninov, Schumann (Clara and Robert), late Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, Brahms, Dvorák, Ravel... an on...
R&B/pop: H.E.R., Anderson Paak, Childish Gambino, Tyler the Creator, Tom Misch, Moonchild, Aaron Taylor, Bruno Major, Earth, Wind and Fire,
Don't know the genre: Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Pentatonix, Duendita, James McAlister
Latin: João Gilberto, Alejandro Sanz, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Il Divo,
I can probably go too long with all these categories, I love every type of music, no matter what language.

Books

The Stranger - Albert Camus (All time favorite!!!!)
The Power by Naomi Alderman is a great book about how if gender roles were switched in our society and what it might do to the world.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Host, All Quiet on the Western Front, Great Gatsby, Cleopatra's Daughter... There are so many more books...

Movies

STAR WARS! 5 to 7, Marvel series, Life of Pi, Avatar, Inception, Les Miserables. Ummm if you have not watched all the Marvel movies, you don't know where it's at, it's literally my childhood.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Met the Try Guys in Disneyland

Spoken at the May 3rd Climate Strike with over 3000 youth
Update: Also spoken alongside Greta Thunberg on October 25th in Vancouver with 15,000 attendees

Spoken at an anti-trans-mountain Expansion protest in front of 2000+ people along with Christine Boyle/Reuben George/Svend Robinson/Grand Chief Stewart Phillip...

Met my good friends

I've never argued with my brother! <3

教，学，和分享

I can teach you how to play the piano! Or bass or trumpet if somehow you have that handy.

I'd like to learn about anything that interests you because I think that anything that makes a person passionate is interesting when it is conveyed.

I can share my dark sense of humor with you when I get comfortable 😂 I'm a little shy at first.

I'd like to learn how to dance, informally or formally. I've done ballet for 6 years, but other than that, I am a stick that only knows the Harlem Shake and floss.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

A great time and maybe we can jam if you have instruments :0
We can talk about dreams and stories and if you're interested, the latest dump of politics!

我游览过的国家

Austria, France, Indonesia, Italy, Taiwan, United Kingdom

我居住过的国家

Canada, United States