CURRENT MISSION

Collect make share live - stories

ABOUT ME

Teaching English in Turkey, year 3. Open to ancient wisdom.
Love adventures.

Don't bother writing if you're a lecherous stranger who
1. wants "to get to know me"
2. seeks an "English teacher", or
3. wants to "get a drink".
I will not write back.

Don't write messages in Turkish either. I DON'T know it that well.

Türkçe konuşamıyorum. Still learning.

我是华裔， 在美国长大。 我是在福建省生的。我的汉语马马虎虎。别问。Also: I can't fake a Chinese accent worth my life.

Aspiring journalist. Hopefully.

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My first, Zimbabwean political and economic refugees in South Africa: http://www.vimeo.com/5482647. Filmed spring 2009 in Johannesburg. Premiered at the Queens International Film Festival!

PHILOSOPHY

Wanderlust.
I'm maybe a Cylon.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Confession: more surfer than host-er. Please don't judge me too harshly. And for some reason I can't remember to log into this site and check things, so it's not unusual for me to be MIA.

Also: not many people come to Ankara, Turkey! If you're not a nutbar and like to hang with 20-somethings, holleerrrr.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Once you go CS, you don't go back.

Interests

中国。Africa. Journalism. Writing. Videography. Red wine (but never by myself, and if we only have 1 bottle, I will be shamelessly greedy). Good conversation. Culture&language.

• culture
• writing
• documentaries
• festivals
• wine
• red wine
• drinking
• teaching
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

The National, Kings of Leon, Tan Dun, Florence + the Machine, Frank Sinatra, Chris Cornell, She Wants Revenge, John Williams, Habib Koité and Bamada, Kate Nash; Special Topics in Calamity Physics, King Leopold's Ghost, The Joy Luck Club, Song of Solomon

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Was a carrier for tuberculosis when I was 16;
lived with bedbugs for 3 months and was possibly colonized by them (the scars on my legs are finally fully healed);
almost been eaten by lions;
nearly had my head taken off by an overhanging mountain ledge because my crazy horse didn't feel like being considerate of its passenger;
met Morgan Zvangirai, Koigi Wa Wamwere, and Kerry Kennedy;
looked after baby sea turtles in Costa Rica (they are the most adorable reptile on the planet, officially);
snorkeled in untouched reefs in Mozambique;
argued a mock-asylum case in a legit Daly Center courtroom in Chicago before a legit judge;
filmed a documentary about Zimbabwean refugees;
saw the aftermath of South African xenophobia in 2008 and people's actions against it... .. .. ...

Teach, Learn, Share

Just because you take a bite doesn't mean you have to swallow.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Egypt, France, Hungary, Japan, Lesotho, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Serbia

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Africa, Turkey, United States

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