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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese (Simplified), English; learning Arabic, French, German, Japanese
  • 31, Female
  • Member since 2012
  • Student
  • Master of Engineering
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Successfully graduate from UVa!

ABOUT ME

Love travelling and meeting people, especially love to learn languages!
PhD student in Virginia, a whole year exchange study in Ireland, studying engineering but crazily loving literature and history.
Marrying with my fiancé on August 1st!

PHILOSOPHY

To experience more, to know wider, to think deeper.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My friend just came back from a long couchsurfing trip and I found it wonderful! Not only to stay, but to know more local stuffs. Think differently and think locally, so cool!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm a newcommer of couchsurfing, just surfed several days in Bordeaux and Toulouse of France and Cordoba of Spain.

Wish I can have more experiences of this terrific way of travelling and changing ideas!

Interests

Reading and writing novels, travelling and singing.

  • writing
  • literature
  • singing
  • reading
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • engineering
  • history
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

For movies I like Harry Potter, The Lord of Ring, Ratatouille, all Garfield movies, and all Miyazaki Hayao productions.

For music I like classical and pop.

For books I like science fictions and adventurous novels and also detective novels.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

So many!
Christmas eve on the Seine cruise in Paris, when I fell in love with my fiancé
Enjoy sunset in Turkey and Greece
Celebrite new years in Bacelona, San Francisco, and a lot of great cities with fireworks
Drive all the way through the Taklamakan desert
Eat icecream and enjoy the outdoor hot springs in -50℃ freezing winter in the most North part of China
And planning to have my wedding in Alaska glacier this August!

Teach, Learn, Share

Well I can teach math haha, and I'm a real good teacher in Chinese culture!
Learning French and Guqin (a Chinese instrument like zither)
Would definitely like to share my travel experiences in all over the world!

What I Can Share with Hosts

My amazing trips in Europe and US;
All about China: food, music, beautiful scene, culture, literature, history, characters, politics and more!
And.....if you are interested in math... as a phd student in applied math, quite good at math problems though I don't really like them haha :P

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Belize, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Ireland, United States

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