I'm now studying in Norway for an exchange semester, and I hope I can host guests and also be hosted in days to come :-D This is my second time abroad. Last summer I went to Finland and had a very good time there. Now I'm in Norway, and maybe I am just mysteriously connected to North Europe all the time.
Young people in China don't get many opportunities to get abroad as Europeans. And they can seldom enjy life due to huge pressure in all aspects. I am lucky and it is until now that I find there are so many different cultures and fabulous people outside my own country.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

It was last summer that I registered in couchsurfing, as I have no place to live for my last two days in Helsinki. So I just tried couchsurfing, but finally I found a host through Airbnb. o(╯□╰)o
Now I have a single room in Bergen, Norway and hope I can meet and host new friends and share every anecdote in travel or in normal life we want to share.

Interests

I love reading and writing things. I study linguistics, but I love philosophy more, especially existentialism. I also watch a lot of football and has been a fan of Juventus for more than a decade. Movie is also something I can talk about for a whole day.

• writing
• books
• cooking
• clubbing
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• soccer

Music, Movies, and Books

The Stranger (L'Étranger), The Plague (La peste) by Albert Camus; The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger; Films by Martin Scorsese, Ken Loach, Sergio Leone, Brian de Palma and Werner Herzog (five differen styles, right?).
As for music, I am an expert on original music from movies, or you can call soundtracks. I can easily tell which movie it comes from listening to a piece of original sound track. Maybe this is something special for me, hahaha.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I collected pop-top cans in Helsinki streets every night last summer for half a month and got 30€ in total. That's really unforgetable, as I put myself into the position of a junkman or ragpicker. I came to know the hard life of lowest social class. And I just fell in love with the drunks in Helsinki, cuz they gave me a small fortune!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can cook many traditional and most typical Chinese dishes. And I have invited friends to have a taste here several times. Recently, I try a new dish every day, that is to say, I am a very qualified cook now.
I went to three Balkan countries this April, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania. I spent 10 days exploring these places and it is my most soul-stirring travel until now. I can share my experience as I think they are the countries that are seldom visited and not that popular amony tourists.
And back to my homecountry. China, to many people, is a remote, mysterious, socialist, and undemocratic country (and also heavily-populated, for sure). Most of my foreign friends are interested to know what the real China is like. As a typical Chinese living in China without any abroad experience for 24 years (until last July), I can share my own feelings of this country and look forward to answering your possible questions.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Books and movies, and also football if you don't support Inter Milan, hahaha. I watch and follow all major leagues in Europe and always like to give my own comments to the players, coaches, strategies and also transfers of some certain clubs.
I think I am a person with traditional characteristics and personalities of eastern countris. And I am learning to be more international. So perhaps from me, you can get some idea what eastern is different from western, in terms of people's behavior or way of doing things.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Norway