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Overview

  • 15 references 12 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English, Yue (Cantonese); learning Spanish
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • social worker
  • MSSC, social work
  • From Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

wear bottle shoes to travel the world

ABOUT ME
I climbed Kilimanjaro and started a project called "Tanzania Dream Project" (https://www.facebook.com/TanzaniaDreamProject/) that works with local african coffee farmers to make the world a bit more fair and adorable.

I am wearing bottle shoes to travel around the world, mainly by overlanding to spread the message against poverty.(see www.facebook.com/bottleshoes if you luv to learn more this interesting stuff :P)

Countries/ cities completed with Bottle shoes:
Tanzania, Zanzibar
Nepal: Kathmandu, Birgunj,Bhaktapur
India: Varanasi, New Delhi, Kolkata
Thailand: Bangkok, pattaya, Chiang Mai, Chiang Khong County
Laos: Luang Prabang
HongKong: Tai Po, Tai Wai, Mong Kok, Stanley, Tsim Sha Tsui
China: Lanzhou, Xinjiang, Guangzhou, Tibet Lhasa, Zhangmu, Kunming,Yunnan xishuangbanna
Macau
Taiwan: Taichung, TaiPei
Japan: Osaka, Kyoto, Nara,
Kazakhstan
Russia
Ukraine
Italy
France
Germany
Poland
Miami
Bahamas
Cuba
Caiman islands
Jamaica

PHILOSOPHY

learning, exploring, put your faith into actions

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

host and being hosted, whats more? lol

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

very few arrange in advance over internet, have been trying to drop off in new met friends home at new york, mexico, south africa, etc.

Interests

backpacking, sports, green lives, things under sunshine, chilling, Kayaking, music, things under Rain, cycling, coffee roasting and brewing

  • education
  • dining
  • fitness
  • traveling
  • music
  • cycling
  • backpacking
  • kayaking
  • sports
  • teaching
  • social work
  • thinking
  • jazz music
  • specialty coffee

Music, Movies, and Books

Bob Marley, Paul Simon, Eva Cassidy, Chantal Chamberland, Oscar Isaac, Super Mario (yes Super Mario), Eagles, Beyond, Anita Mui, Cheer Chen.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A dream comes true to travel by overlanding different countries by wearing bottle shoes, the shoes made up with a pair of wasted plastic bottles
Have been staying with Amazon tribe family, grabing scorpion and spider with them haha, lovely.
Overlanding Eurasia from HK to Venetia with bottle shoes.
Got robbed by Mexican policemen and got my phone back from their merciful hands because the phone was too new to be sold there lol.
Climbed Kilimanjaro and met my then best friends in coffee farms, started up a community project called Tanzania Dream Project.
Camping in no-men land in the middle earth world in New Zealand...

Teach, Learn, Share

I lecture social work, experiential learning and group counseling, I love sports and fitness training, cycling.
I can teach you Chinese language and share with you Chinese idiom if you are interested.
I roast and do coffee that bought from my beloved farmers in Tanzania. We can enjoy a good and fair cup of coffee together.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories sharing mainly, I could also bring you some Chinese Stuff if you are interested.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, England, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Qatar, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela

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