Heyyyyyyy 你好
I’m Yedong from Suzhou and currently in Montreal. I speak Wu Suzhou dialect, Mandarin Chinese, English, and currently struggling with French. I feel like that traveling is more than tourist attractions and beautiful landscapes, but also about local life, and to see, to experience another way of living. Sometimes, I imagine myself as an anthropologist who’s doing field study. Culture, an elusive thing, embedded in every aspects of the environment around us. Whenever in a new city, I love to take a bus, visit local markets or just sitting by the window ordering a glass of coffee, observing every walks of life flowing in front of me. My dream, like every other traveler, is to visit every country of the world, but I’d like to do it slow. Sometimes I may wonder a traveler 1000 years later, by that time, everything will be in its developed phase, and the world will tend to be the same, won’t it be boring to travel by that time?

I will be available to host in Suzhou from 12/30-1/14.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet locals, to share our values, to learn the culture, to feel the vibe, to create memories.

Interests

Cycling, Hiking, Cooking, Reading, Language learning, Table-tennis, Growing plants and aquarium, Weiting novels, Collecting different forms of memory of traveling

• literature
• cooking
• board games
• reading
• cycling
• hiking
• sports
• table tennis
• badminton
• language exchange
• caving
• languages and cultures
• carnivorous plants
• baking bread

Music, Movies, and Books

Music 🎺 rock, classical, folk, pop and many more
Movie🍿 romantic, fantasy, action, criminal.
Book📖 Yukio Mishima, Hsien-Yung Pai, Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann, Samuel Beckett. Though I study engineering, being a writer is always a dream in my heart

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhike along the border of Afghanistan

Teach, Learn, Share

How to speak Mandarin and Suzhounese, two almost different languages

How to cook using recipes from Eastern China~

How to use chopsticks

How to write calligraphy

How to cultivate plants

How to play table tennis like a master

How to record footprints about your trips

What I Can Share with Hosts

A small gift, and a great memory:)

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Cuba, El Salvador, England, Honduras, Hong Kong, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Panama, Russian Federation, South Korea, Tajikistan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, China, England