Ciao,hello,my Chinese name is Yuanyuan Ma but you can also call me Polly，I am a 22 years old girl from Wuxi（A city closed to Shanghai）,China,and I am now studying at Accademia di belle arti di Perugia!i love traveling so much,Mi piace viaggiare da morire!Because traveling bring you not only the happiness but also the experience of life,you can know a lot of things,such as different culture from different places,different hobbies from different people...

And I love sharing my stories with these people who are named to be 'strangers',due to the sense of mystery or the sense of freshness.do you understand my meanings?hahh..

What can I do for you?i don't know,but I can make you happy,and I can paint,I can write something for you...I can cook some Chinese food,but maybe it is not as nice as you imagine...I love music and any kinds of art styles,but I am not that kind of crazy person,i am that kind of very crazy person(I made a joke),I won't make your home in a mess,hahh...on the contrary ,if you need make a clean,I can help you,lol...

I want to meet some people with strange but curious minds,and maybe they are really humorous and weird ,perhaps you are an artist or a writer,or there are always different things on your mind,you can tell me stories,I can tell you mine too.

I hope we can be friends for a long time because of this short stay.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

A kind of life experience.
A kind of sharing of happiness.
A kind of different style of making friends.
A kind of purity TRAVELLING.
A kind of enjoying life...

Interests

Drawing
Trip hop
Jazz
Folk
Poetry
Novels
Drama
Listening to guitar music
Thinking of my life
Eating
Drinking limoncello
Films
Seas
Piazza
Sweet chocolate
Cafe' senza zucchero
..........

• arts
• culture
• writing
• poetry
• dining
• cooking
• chocolate
• chinese food
• beer
• walking
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• music
• jazz
• guitar

Music, Movies, and Books

The Leaver And The Left
West Coast
Creep
End of May
Ohne Dich
The Xx
Mazzy stars
Radiohead
Massive attack
From your balcony
H.i.M
The Beatles
Carla Bruni
Hurts
One Day
August Rush
Love Songs
Love of Imagination
Letters to Juliet
Before Sunrise
Before sunset
Glommy Sunday
Love me if you dare

Pride And Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Emma
Persuasion
Poetry from Rimbaud

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sleeping for 48 hours
Enjoying life for my whole life

Romance

I

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
- One fine evening, you've had enough of beer and lemonade,
And the rowdy cafes with their dazzling lights!
- You go walking beneath the green lime trees of the promenade.

The lime trees smell good on fine evenings in June!
The air is so soft sometimes, you close your eyelids;
The wind, full of sounds, - the town's not far away -
Carries odours of vines, and odours of beer...

II

- Then you see a very tiny rag
Of dark blue, framed by a small branch,
Pierced by an unlucky star which is melting away
With soft little shivers, small, perfectly white...

June night! Seventeen! - You let yourself get drunk.
The sap is champagne and goes straight to your head...
You are wandering; you feel a kiss on your lips
Which quivers there like something small and alive...

III

Your mad heart goes Crusoeing through all the romances,
- When, under the light of a pale street lamp,
Passes a young girl with charming little airs,
In the shadow of her father's terrifying stiff collar...

And because you strike her as absurdly naif,
As she trots along in her little ankle boots,
She turns, wide awake, with a brisk movement...
And then cavatinas die on your lips...

IV

You're in love. Taken until the month of August.
You're in love - Your sonnets make Her laugh.
All your friends disappear, you are not quite the thing.
- Then your adored one, one evening, condescends to write to you...!

That evening,... - you go back again to the dazzling cafes,
You ask for beer or for lemonade...
- You are not really serious when you are seventeen
And there are green lime trees on the promenade...

Sept. 29, 70

- As translated by Oliver Bernard: Arthur Rimbaud, Collected Poems (1962)

Teach, Learn, Share

Teaching Chinese
Learning Italian

What I Can Share with Hosts

Happiness
Writing something for hosts
Making them happy

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, China, France, Germany, Italy, Maldives, Serbia

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Italy