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Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh
@xiwen-li
Member since 2015
I'm from Beijing, China, been musician my whole life (went to music school until I finished bachelor’s), then transitioned to becoming humanitarian aid worker by accident in 2020. Currently I have my home base in Berlin, Germany, while working around in different locations for humanitarian projects. (At the moment I am in Bangladesh) Half Korean half Chinese, born and raised in China with my mother's family from North Korea. After pausing my music career in 2020 for some years, I restarted my passion in music again after living in Nigeria in 2025. If you’re interested in my music, you could check out the Instagram page @entedeckt. I am flexitarian, which means I have different diet everyday depends on my mood (basically I eat whatever I feel like to eat 😂). But I’m probably the only Asian you’ve ever know who doesn’t eat rice. (I do eat sushi and rice noodles though) Why? Only because I don’t like the texture that much.
Interested in Art
Interested in Clubs
Fluent in German
Learning Arabic (North Levantine)
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
To meet new people and make friends, to travel like a local. I love to meet different kind of people and cultures, to chat with them, to have fun, to enjoy life!
Music, Movies, and Books
I love most kind of music, especially electronic, rock and classical. I am also a DJ playing mainly psychedelic techno and trance with improvised live music. Movie top 10 of all time: 1. Mr. Nobody 2. Victoria (the German one) 3. The Story of Yonosuke 4. Before sunrise/sunset/midnight 5. Lola Rennt 6. About Time 7. Interstellar 8. Seven psychopaths 9. Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu? 10. All Harry Potters I read mostly non-fictions. No favorite book yet, trying to discover some more. Trying my best to read some French non-fictions lately but my French is really not there yet.😭
One Amazing Thing I've Done
I went backpacking Thailand with my mum and that’s pretty dope (though we had fight EVERY SINGLE DAY lmao). I started volunteering for festivals since I was 15, by the age of 18 I started traveling solo. Never had a gap year, still in school, and will stay in school for another couple years. I once ate four flight meals on the flight with five glasses of wine. Yum. (I wasn’t even asking the fourth one but they just brought it to me, probably I looked starving 😂).
Teach, Learn, Share
I studied flute for my whole life until I broke my arm during an accident when I was travelling in Malta. Later on, I studied gender studies and humanitarian action, which led me to what I am working today, Currently studying French, hope to reach C1 in 2026. I used to speak some Italian but forgot all of them, and I understand a bit of Arabic! I learned Dutch for a week, it’s probably the easiest language in the world! I'll share you lots of my stories both from my travels and from my life in Beijing and other cities.
What I Can Share With Hosts
Maybe a private flute concert! I could share you my story and listen to yours. Exchanging different cultures and stories is one of the best things in the world!
My Interests
Music, film, yoga, contemporary art, bicycle FOOD FOOD FOOD!!! I love to travel around the world and meet new people. I usually travel alone, and the best thing for me is ALWAYS ON THE ROAD.
