Hello,

I'm Sophia, a product designer as freelancer and a student now studying innovation management in Central Saint Martins college, University of the Arts London.

To experience the world is an important part of my life as a designer, I like to learn local culture and be inspired by different kind of life style. Also I'm a Mandarin teacher with certificate.

I've been to many different countries, so that I can share various experience with you. Furthermore, I have friends from worldwide that I can understand and embrace any kind of culture differences.

My goal of life so far is trying to tackle with variety social issues by using technology to solve it. 'Help those people who urgently in need.' is my motto.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I don't like to be a classic tourist. I prefer to experience the local life when I travel to a new country, and I like to share and be shared experience and life stories which can make me learn more about world.

Interests

I love design, movie, travel, photography, music, skateboarding, surfing , wind surfing, boxing and cooking.

• arts
• culture
• design
• photography
• education
• dining
• cooking
• technology
• traveling
• music
• surfing
• skateboarding
• boxing
• teaching
• freelancing

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Indie, Classical, Country.
Movies:
Atonement, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Interstellar , Love Rosie, Her, Days of summer, etc.
Books:
La Sombra Del viento, Kite Runner, The Thirteenth tale, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My graduation project was focus on the remote primary schools in Taiwan, which are lack of diversity education resources. My team design a cotton candy cart and using service design to tackle the core problem. We sell cotton candy in the city and make people aware of the problems of lacking education resources. Then we bring the cotton candy and notebooks to remote primary schools. It means that we bring the joy and knowledge to them and teach them different aspect of learning new things.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can teach you basic but useful Mandarin(Chinese) and the Taiwanese culture.
Also I'm good at cooking Taiwan traditional food which can make your day !
As long as you have some difficult problems, I can use the innovation strategies or design insights to figure out.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Taiwan, United Kingdom