I am Minji Kim from South Korea. My name is shown Mandoo King. That's my nickname. Mandoo means dumpling in Korea. not just dumpling. King size dumpling!

I have been traveling for the last 7 years around New Zealand and Australia.
I said to my mom, “Mom, I will be away for a year.” In the end, it turned out to be three and a half years in New Zealand. I converted my old mini car (Nissan Note 2016) into my little house. I put everything that I had in my car and traveled around the whole of New Zealand. That feeling of love, confidence, and freedom — I felt alive and truly myself.

When I went back to Korea, I couldn’t stay there because my heart told me to go and travel more. So I jumped to Australia. I bought a 2003 Toyota RAV4. I did my road trip with it for 2 years. I bought my car with 220,000 km on it, and I sold it when it had 270,000 km.

So here I am. Now I am in Canada to start the next chapter of my life.🥳🥳

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

Traveling is not seeing landmark for me. I want to deep dive in local culture. I want to learn new perspections of life and give back inspiration or motivation. I love all interactions❤️

兴趣

Hiking, walking, camping, bouldering, phycology, drinking a tea or coffee, socializing, making new friend, traveling, trying new things, dancing, reading a good book.

• singing
• dancing
• walking
• drinking
• reading
• hiking
• travel
• travelling

音乐、电影和书籍

I love all music but heavy metal. Lately i am more into Latin, afro music.
I haven’t watched movies a lot lately. (I used to watch it a lot.) I was into pretty everything but horror( Ironically, i love Zombie movie somehow🤣.)

Recent books that i loved
1. Siddhartha book by Hermann Hesse
2.The four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

I have 3books a month challenge myself. It is very good for me to push myself reading more books. I started reading in English slowly but surely hahaha

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Walking in camino, Spain. I couldn’t speak neither English and Spanish. But i had a best time.

So I walked around 900km for 33 days with my school backpack, hiking shoes with a hole and four season sleeping bag(I thought it would be warm there even though it's winter hahaha). But i made it! Considering of all the difficulties, it is still the best trip i ever made. I learnt a lot of myself and fell in love with my life again.

教，学，和分享

I will teach you anything that i can teach you.
I have a feeling like i can share more about my life story and lessons that l learnt from my life! she is the best teacher! hahahah

And i’d love to learn how to cook your favorite dishes and skill that you want to share with me!

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

My love language is sharing time. love to go to gym together, talking over a cup of tea or coffee, watching TV show or movies, hike, bouldering, hiking, walking and more.
(If you share just a place, that's also fine with me!)

I have worked in various positions throughout my life. I worked as a barista (Queenstown in New Zealand), vineyard worker (Cromwell, Blenheim in New Zealand), cleaner (Tauranga in New Zealand), kitchen hand (Perth, Australia), cellar hand (Melbourne, Adelaide in Australia), and farm hand (Tasmania, Bundaberg in Australia). And more!!!
I also did shift work such as 12 hours a day, 6 days in a row. I am physically strong. So i can help you if you need help!
ps. I just got my Yoga Teacher Certificate (200h) this year, so we can do yoga sessions together too!
let me know if you need any help! I can help you !😃

我游览过的国家

Australia, Cook Islands, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Spain

我居住过的国家

Australia, New Zealand, South Korea