hello, my name is Charlene Jin (金孝容). here are a few things about me:

· 21-year old female.
· undergraduate student of economics at UC Berkeley.
· born and raised in Taiwan (ROC).
· daydreamer.
· i cannot host male persons in my home because it is a female-only household. there will be no exceptions to this rule.
· as a heterosexual female, there is a high chance that i will turn down requests to hang out from males. i am committed to an exclusive romantic relationship and will avoid any encounters that disrespects my boyfriend. nonetheless, i still very much enjoy making new friends with males who take genuine interest in my personality and human character — not my feminine gender.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

· make new friends.
· explore new worlds.
· go wandering for a year because—just for once in my life—i want to have neither purpose nor direction.

***apologies, i won't be able to host recently because i'm away from home up till mid-October.***

兴趣

• writing
• poetry
• singing
• folklore
• photography
• film making
• cooking
• baking
• reading
• camping
• earth science
• economics
• geography
• history
• journalism
• philosophy
• beach
• scouting
• debate
• the cosmos

音乐、电影和书籍

BOOKS*
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Book Thief
Life 3.0
Free to Choose
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Dream of the Red Chamber

MUSIC*
Sóley
Слот
Desert Chang
The Moon and the Nightspirit
Yann Tiersen
Nephew
Mayday
Pale Honey
Yann Tiersen
Mélanie Pain
Cécile Corbel

MOVIES*
Good Bye, Lenin!
Forrest Gump
Wolf Totem
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

· lasted 14 days without taking a bath.
· stayed silent and patiently waited for my boyfriend to stop eating animals — all by his own volition.
· climbed to the top of the tallest mountain in Taiwan.
· held onto the understanding that fairies do exist in nature.
· was the first person in my exam group to get a camp fire started when i was testing for my third-level girl scout badge. the fire starter i made was so beautifully carved that the examiners took a photograph of it for future reference. (ahh, all the things i used to know how to do back when i was 15 years old...missed those days.)

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

i can do household chores, cook Californian food, cook Chinese food, do English-Chinese translation, discuss Chinese language and culture, discuss economics.

我游览过的国家

Austria, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Nepal, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, United States

我居住过的国家

Singapore, Taiwan, United States