I’m Miya. Currently a first year PhD student at Kashiwa in Chiba🥜🌊🌏🔬🥼
I’ve been living in Tokyo from 2016 to 2018, then I went on an exchange in Zurich for a whole year. That’s when I started couchsurfing!! :D Life is an adventure and I’m on an endless quest. I’ve lived in Beijing for 8 years, Hong Kong for 10, Zurich for 1 and Tokyo for almost 7 so far. Where am I gonna end up later? 🤷🏻‍♀️ maybe 🇦🇶? 😂 just going with the flow :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like the concept of sharing without asking for return.
Being a tourist is fun, but not as fun as living the life of a local. I like couchsurfing since it allows me to meet crazy, kind and extraordinary people that I wouldn’t normally meet in a routine life.

Interests

Too many...mainly music and sports. I’m also into space, science and spirituality ;) I love crazy talks about aliens and robots and...idk😂 Always up for something new ^^

• arts
• poetry
• singing
• environment
• vegetarian
• vegan
• farmers' market
• yoga
• meditation
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• softball
• geology
• philosophy
• science
• freedom
• spirituality
• universe
• hippie
• chilling
• local food
• farming
• foodie
• antarctica
• taekwondo
• languages and cultures
• aliens
• hong kong
• japanese culture
• quantum mechanics
• weird stuff
• chinese culture
• open mind
• space exploration
• tokyo
• environmental science
• beijing
• universal love
• nasa
• mars
• dali
• plant based food
• geoscience
• nomadic life
• flexitarian
• sharehouse
• farm to table
• chiba

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: I love singing and playing guitar, ukulele, piano and flute :) I listen to all types of music in all kinds of languages. Chinese, Cantonese, English, Arabic, Mongolian, Tibetan, French... Singer I like include the Lumineers, AnnenMayKantereit, Radwimps, James Bay, Jason Mraz, Cody Simpson, Queen, Eagles, Bob Marley...
Movies: Into the Wild, Mr Nobody, Forest Gump, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Les Choristes...
Books: Three Bodies, Moment in Peking, Twilight (read it 10 times when I was in primary school😂)...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

If it’s just one, it’d probably be staying alive and living a life hahaha

Others:
-went to Antarctica and kayaked
-not talking for 10 days during a meditation camp
-Hitchhiking (Switzerland, France, Croatia, Morocco...)
-moving to Japan alone for university
-climed Mount Fuji at night to see the sunrise but the sun didn’t come out and it started to rain -___-
...

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, English), guitar and singing, piano, flute, ukulele, taekwondo
Learn: anything that I don’t know :) ...
Share: music (we can form a band haha), food (I like experimenting with my food, but I can cook chinese or Japanese food if u prefer), laughters, stories of our lives, good times ;)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook for/with you if you don’t mind creative experimental food that you might’ve never tasted before😆 (sometimes end up weird lol)
I can sing for you if you have a guitar or ukulele or piano. Or a cup haha
Stories.
Good times.

Countries I’ve Visited

Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Croatia, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Macao, Malaysia, Maldives, Morocco, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Hong Kong, Japan, Switzerland