CURRENT MISSION

To find all that is awesome.

ABOUT ME

I'm studying International Affairs at UCSD. Most of my travels (a bit over three years) have been in East Asia (China/Taiwan/HK/Okinawa/Philippines/Singapore, etc.), but I feel like I need to see more of the US. I road-tripped solo from Boston to San Diego over July-early August 2017, and that made me feel that all the more.

PHILOSOPHY

Be the person your dog thinks you are.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My first experience was being hosted in Tianjin, China, where I stayed with a professor of architecture at the city university. An awesome experience getting to hear about the city from a local. Couchsurfing also enabled me to only pay for one night of housing over the course of my month-long trip across the US. Have nothing but good things to say.

Interests

When I'm feeling intellectual: politics, government, international issues.
When I feel like living: photography, reading, observing, living, breathing.

• photography
• walking
• politics
• reading
• socializing

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: anything Murakami, Brave New World, The Red and the Black, Slapstick

TV: Shameless, Good Eats, Criminal Minds, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Movies: American Beauty, Little Miss Sunshine, The Shawshank Redemption, Toy Story (1, 2, 3), Up

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Observed a line of hundreds of monks calmly walking back into the Fo Guang Shan monastery in Kaohsiung, TW.

Teach, Learn, Share

Share: the random bits of knowledge stashed away in my brain.

Learn: more of those bits.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Macao, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Taiwan, United States