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Overview

  • 17 references 11 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English, Taiwanese; learning French, German, Sign Language - Russian
  • 41, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • Project manager
  • University
  • From Xiamen, Fujian, China
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To learn

ABOUT ME

—————- okay new update from 2019: please do NOT use me as a free travelling advisor, book your own transportation, plan your own trip! I’m NOT babysit anyone here! I only provide a free private room or couch for you. (My responding rate is low cause I will not respond to anyone asking me to help with planning and/or organizing their own traveling trip. Local I’m happy to give local traveling tips while you’re here). Be a grownup and be respectful of my time please. ———————-

Below are the old stuff I’ve wrote up since a decade ago so yup I’m keeping it without ever looking back. ————

Searching for happiness and exploring the world developing the depth of her life, no much differences than anyone else deep inside..
I used to do a lot of travel/road trip/mountain trekking at my home country China, have done some rock climbing as well, and enjoyed them all. But never felt enough.

About some years ago I get addicted to sailing, so spent all my weekends for sailing, and have raced in a few sailing regattas in China, won a couple champions in China in 2011.
I decided to come to NZ at the end of 2011, primary for sailing since this is the best place for sailing in the world. I quit my job as a VGM at an american company two months before I came to NZ .
I had a wonderful amazing time in New Zealand for almost two years, that experience had make this country my second homeland.
Then I travelled for a few months in Asia. And then I went back to China, and still miss being aboard!

PHILOSOPHY

An Alien land is also a homeland.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hang out, I walk around, I see things happening with or without me.

I seriously started looking at this website after attending a couple CS wednesday night's drinks at Welly, New Zealand.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Experiencing it.

Interests

Sailing, Rock Climbing, tramping, biking, kayaking, motor riding, reading, photographing... dancing(like no one's watching! lol )

  • arts
  • photography
  • crafts
  • reading
  • traveling
  • painting
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • sailing
  • rock climbing
  • handmade
  • creative writing
  • mountain hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Before sunset/ Before sunrise, if I were only to name one or two.

Books: Marva Collins Way, Thanks, 3 cups of tea, The little prince, My name is red. 1984. 1Q84. The smoke jumper. The horse whisper. The Notebook(I translated it into Chinese just for fun). Narnia.
I read lots of books in chinese version when I was little such as Gone with the wind. Jane Eyre. and lots of such that I don't know the english names.

All of Anny Baby's, and all of Echo's books.

music: Crazy or elegant.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A sailing trip from Qingdao all the way down to Xiamen China, groups of dolphin go along with you, you are in nowhere but just the sky and ocean.

Lived in the jungle once for some days without any other human contacts.

Teach, Learn, Share

I learn.

I'd love to teach you whatever I know, but I always feel like people know so much more than I do!

I love sharing- sharing is caring as people say! But not just physically, I think sharing ideas have so much more to it.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories.
Things that I have learned through my life...

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Russian Federation, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, New Zealand

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