CURRENT MISSION

I want to finish my masters thesis soon and at the same time starting to write a book about my life in Sweden and how I enjoy every moment being and learning in Sweden. It is a hobby that I just found for myself and I am so happy with it!!!

ABOUT ME

I am now turning to 29 years old but friends told me that I still look like a school girl. It is because I am very small in appearance, but inside, I have grown up to a point where I can proudly say that I have overcome my various inner fears and have learnt how to enjoy this life to the full. The more I travel, the more I learn, the further I get away from my family physically but closer I get to them, in my heart. I treasure every opportunity to meet new people from all corners of life since I know, I will learn a lot from them and give them a lot to be surprised about. It is just me - always fighting to improve the goodness in myself. My only problem is I was born in the lunar year of a pig, that's why I am an extreme deep-sleeper. I don't love sleeping. I want to wake up early in the morning and just by waking up early can give me a big smile on my face. That's it. So simply simple!
I am not a fully extroverted person because to a certain extent, I am still an Asian girl and have been grown up with lots of teaching on how to behave, how to keep a certain distance with strangers. But over time, I have been learning to mix the Asian roots in myself and the openess and sociability of Western people, especially after going abroad to study. That's why I am friendly, sociable and honest (which i think is a real advantage in most cases) with a little stubbornness and self-determination.

PHILOSOPHY

Don't have to think big, trying to be become a happy person is already good for your self, family and society. And how to be happy, let's find inner peace in your heart. Do things that you really love. If you don't have any real passion, you need to work the hard way to find, even if it takes your whole life. It's worthy, I can assure!

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I know about couch-surfing after going with my roomate to Girona, Barcelona. She applied and got accepted by a host in that little oldie but cutie town.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was hosted in Girona by a guy named Ruso and his family. Over there, we were warmly received and involved in making sausages with his family during the new year holiday. I love this experience so much and every image from the time I stayed in their farm is still alive in my head. Also in the same trip to Spain, I was hosted by a couple who are both PhDs in mathematics. It was lovely and fun spending time with them, chatting, eating clams late at night.
After that Barcelona trip in January, 2011, I travelled with my close friend and we stayed in 2 more houses of couchsurfing members in Verona and Firenze. It was late APril, 2011. Since then, I stayed home and getting crazy now because of my burning wish inside me to travel and meeting new people.

兴趣

I am a big fan of working out in gym. My most interest is in yoga, body balance, and zumba. Sometimes, I do weight-lifting as well.
I also love taking photographs and writing. I am so fascinated with the idea that I live, study and travel, then write all my experiences and feelings so that one day I can publish it for all young people to enjoy, probably learn something from my experience. I am not going to fail. But even the idea of failure to publish it can not deter me because I want my children (if I have in future) to know how I live and struggle to complete my own self.

• writing
• books
• causes
• yoga
• working out
• zumba
• traveling
• surfing
• mathematics

音乐、电影和书籍

Movies: A beautiful mind, Kunfu Panda, Thanks for smoking, The 12 angry men, Doubt, Prestige, John Malkovich, etc.
Music: The Beatles, ABBA, The Core and Pink Martini
Books by author: Noam Chomsky

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

The most amazing thing I have seen is a beautiful Swedish singer hugged and kissed on the cheeks of a man, who has a deformed, scary-looking face and movement disorder as well as mental disorder symptoms. I also saw how people on the bus communicate with him instead of teasing or ignoring him.

In general, the most amazing thing I have done is finding out the root causes for the dark side in me and once knowing the causes, I have tried to find ways to better control my feelings and behaviours not to people who love and care about me. In specific, it can be just simply riding bicycle over a distance of 8 km from home to school within 22 minutes.

教，学，和分享

1- The most valuable thing I learn from couchsurfing is that it is a fantastic way of travelling. Travelling does not mean only nice scenery and comfy hotel. It is more about seeing new people, learning about differences in their life, their mindset by living their lives, even just for some days. And that will definitely opens your mind and heart, making you less ethno-centric and more endurable and sympathetic. Hate comes from weakness, from people's fears of "strangers". I found myself stronger inside by opening my heart to learn about strange people. By understanding them, you neither feel scared or different from them anymore.
2- I have great opportunities to make home-made sausages of Catalonia region, Spain and learn how simple, happy and hospitable local people are. Hit the road, go to Girona, you will see and feel somehow the same way with me.

我游览过的国家

France, Indonesia, Italy, Spain, Thailand

我居住过的国家

Sweden