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Overview

  • 56 references 52 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English, French, German; learning Ancient Greek, Dutch, Spanish, Yue (Cantonese)
  • 35, Female
  • Member since 2013
  • to live and learn
  • philosophy
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION
try not to lose the sense of reality

ABOUT ME

Studying philosophy to have a better understanding of literature and eventually, human spirit. Working hard to keep the balance of reading, thinking and travelling. Willing to understand complicated things but trying to keep a simple heart. Having the nostalgia for a past/lost world or a world that never existed.

PHILOSOPHY

The hardest and farthest but most beautiful and exquisite journey is to understand another human heart.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

both surf and host. Share our stories, sometimes we sing or dance together. Sometimes I cook, or, at least, I try to cook...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
in different corners of the world

Interests

reading; traveling; singing;

  • books
  • singing
  • cooking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • dialects

Music, Movies, and Books

my 3 favorite books:
A Dream in Red Mansion
Journey to the West
100 años de Soledad
other writers that I like:Su Shi, Chuang-tzu, Lao Tse, Li Bai, Du Fu,Xin Qiji,Wu Jingzi,Lu Xun, Qian Zhongshu, Gabo, Dostojewski, Borges, Octavio Paz, Flaubert, Bolaño, Chekhov, Lévi-Strauss, Rousseau, Heine, Yukio Mishima....

I'm doing my research on Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Michel Henry ect.

Music? folk mainly, jazz, blues, country

Movies? Tarkovski, Kieslowski, JIA Zhangke, Ang Lee, Charlie Chaplin, Wang Kar-Wai, Fellini, Almodovar...

If you write me a request, tell me your most favorite book or song or movie as a sign that you read my profile~ ~

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

should be thingS: anthropological researches in the minority regions of China; hitch-hike in Tibet and the sunrise of the Himalayas; volunteering in Gaunsahar a small Nepali village surrounded by snows mountains; changed my major from history to philosophy; busking on the Oberbaumbrücke; wanted to learn to be a clown but ended up learning acrobatics in a circus en la ciudad de México; always having my dear loyal and lovely friends (mentally) by my side.....

Teach, Learn, Share

I could help you learning Mandarin and several Chinese dialects. Cultures of China in general and of the minorities in the Southwest. Chinese, German and French philosophy. Traditional Chinese folk songs usw.
Tell me your stories, addictions or disenchantments

What I Can Share with Hosts

some beloved books? philosophy? songs? (spicy)chinese dishes?anyway good humor and laughs for sure.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, North Korea, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, China, France, Germany, Greece, Mexico

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