If any of these offend you, please skip me: I am pro-Palestine 🇵🇸, LGBTQ+ 🌈, and proudly Taiwanese 🇹🇼.

Based in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. I'm a language teacher that cooks, a bartender that translates books, and a writer that sings in a choir.

Just call me Salim. Yuhe is my Chinese name, and so few people excelled in the pronunciation that I rarely realized if someone was calling me. Couchsurfing didn't allow me to change it so it's still my display name. You can try calling me Yuhe, but when my force of habit finally hits, it'll end up with an hour-long lecture on Mandarin phonetics.

I read every profile carefully when I receive or send requests, so I expect the same from you. :)

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

I don't really travel that much anymore, so it'd be nice to hear about crazy stories and weird encounters that other fellow travelers have.

Don't take it personally when I don't reply to your message(s). I tend to ignore requests that don't fit the criteria I mentioned on my profile, or it simply means that I'm unavailable during the days you request. Not being an a-hole, saying no is hard, and I've got stood up by Couchsurfers twice since I moved here already, so...

兴趣

Food, languages, and (right) music (for me)... I can talk about these topics for hours to the point you might tell me to shut up.

I don't mind talking about politics at all, but I have very strong and stubborn stances on Israel-Palestine and China-Taiwan conflicts, and I really don't mind kicking someone out just because I disagree with them on those topics — I mean it, don’t even try. Some little hints: I'm Taiwanese, and I majored in Arabic. Now you know what to avoid.

• cooking
• baking
• drinking
• gardening
• music
• languages
• social movements
• lgbtq+

音乐、电影和书籍

Music: My main genres are world/ethnic/folk music, indie pop, indie rock, and Mandarin pop. But open to anything!

Movies: I don't really watch movies, but my favorite ones so far are: "Stutz", "Oslo, August 31st" and the French musical version of "Le Petit Prince"

Books: I'm collecting Le Petit Prince's editions in different languages. :D

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Submitted an academic paper to a conference and got accepted while working as a bartender full-time. I presented the paper in front of the well-known and highly respected professor who wrote the most popular Arabic textbook in the world, which I also used in college; afterward, he came to me and encouraged me to proceed in academia. I almost threw up because of nervousness. I don't even know how I multitasked.

教，学，和分享

I'd love to teach you how to cook your favorite Asian stuff and learn how to make your best ones :)

For those interested in staying at my place, you're always welcome. But please check the page “My Home” first for more information. To confirm that you have read it, greet me at the end of the message with one of these words: pho, donkatsu, or kimchi.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

A song, a piece of poem, or an experience in my life.

我游览过的国家

Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Viet Nam

我居住过的国家

Kuwait, Norway, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Taiwan