CURRENT MISSION

Lijiang local embassador?(^_^)/Trying to build a classroom n finally a school in some place beautiful&less crowded.

ABOUT ME

i'm Kaiyang,my english name is Ariel--as the name of the Disney "little mermaid".Beijinger.i'm a energatic person for life,art,travel,and meeting cool people.i find a person cool from various aspects:character,specialty and knowledge( maybe appearance should be counted,lol~)
Currently i'm a Chinese Mandarin teacher once majoring in TCSOL.it's so lucky that i love what i learned during these 5 years and i enjoy being a Chinese language teacher to help foreign students.
Chinese culture is attractive.i love it very much,but yes i'm also eager to experience more about the world in a deeper way compared to sightseeings or acdamic studying.So that's why i like backpack travelling, meeting locals and if fortunate enough, making new friends.i'm a big fan of CS. i hope i can be a CSer in the near future.so if u travell to Beijing and come to me,i'd like to assist u to experience the grace of this ancient city as well as the firece modern essence of it,espcially in the art and food field~ ;-)

PHILOSOPHY

life is a magic book:the more u read,the thicker it is.
life to experience,life to exchange,life to emerge;life is grace.
be humble to all the livings.
love mother nature!!!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

The story started from my dear close friend Yining's amazing exp of CS during her european study period. After almost 2 years since she recommanded this project to me, in 2010, i finally realize that if i keep being alienated from the internet i will never have the chance to experience the grace of CS and be an alien in the end.So here i am! i am willing to help travellers to know my lovable hometown-Beijing better, and meet new friends! i love culture exchange and backpack travelling. in the end, i'd like to say sth that have been in my mind since i knew CS: who creat this idea?! it's damn fierce!;-)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

HOST:
2010-May:
Very first hosting experience(a very charming girl,Kat,tgther with her family, from Austria!!)
2011-June:
Magaly from Mexico(a couple of times we meet!! A lot of fun we have! For food, for art factory touring, for everything!!)
2011-July:
Phillip from UK(meet a lot more times! He is coming to study in my univ BLCU for Chinese language!!!)
Jana from Czech(!!! no more words only these three happy exclamation can express my feeling for our meet!)
James from UK or Jinan Province,China?haha...(friend of Jana, cool and fun!)
Joel&Arla from Finland(First Finnish I've ever met, they r nice and quiet and they have some sense of cold humor;P Do give me kinda general image of Finnish! and yes, I'm a big fan of Nokia though Apple is invading!)
Tim&Thomas from GoldWind Co. and Kehper, all from US(first group of guests for kinda prelude meal of Foodie Buddie Activity)
2011-August:
Edvardas (FBA dinner of Cantonese seafood with Yining tgther. Good!)
Tom an Australian from Korea( our meet was a bit dramatic, buy i was glad that i gave him a chance to explain the mistakely stood-me-up thing and then we had good talk)
Danny Fain from Israel(Curious abt his studying field which is art related and also abt his country, good that my chocolate&heavenly ice=cream saved u from blood sugar losing;-P And impressed by ur QUICK tour to the Great Wall--he set off in the morning from downtown and got back b4 1pm, how can he made it???)

2011-December:
Jussi from Finland
Yoonjina from Korea
Sofia Sung from China
Nicole from Canada

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SURF:
2012-Mar-11 Eijiro san in Tokyo, thank u sooo much for accepting my urgent request, our otosan!
2012-Mar-12,13 Tomoko, Tokyo, she is really a great elder sister to me!! Chi Tomoko^-^
2010-July-08: First surfing experience started in SG!
2010-07-10~12 in KL,MY(special thanks to Anand)
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2010-Jan: Unfortunately,i haven't have any CS exp up to now. i'm looking forward to meet and help CSer who come to Beijing.hope i can build longer and solid friendship with CSers.

Interests

backpack travelling,
musics(especially OSTs for some movies and animation, dying for it) and movies,
both classical and modern drama-play,
cooking,
collecting the infomation of some yummy but cheap and unfamous restaurants,
exploring anything that in any way is of a funny essence and then shoot it with my camera or write it down at once to preserve the memory

• arts
• culture
• books
• coloring
• perfumes
• dining
• seafood
• cooking
• breakfast
• chocolate
• movies
• traveling
• magic
• opera
• backpacking
• hunting
• surfing
• animation
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

*Albums i adore:
Dangerous,Hopes and Fears,In my Place,Back to the beginning;
*Artists i admire: Mozart,Beethoven,Shakespeare,MJ,U2,Ennio Morricone,Yoko Kanno,John Willams;
*Loads of OSTs of movies and Japanese cartoon movies.
*Movies: Just name some western films here--The Godfather I&II,The Legend of 1900,The Notebook(so beautiful),King of War(scripts are so sharp!),Edward the Scissor Hands,Sleepy Hollow,perfume-the story of a murder(graceful in a weird way),big fish,vincent(short but strong).Die Welle(Really cool & a quite nice try in dealing with the topic of Nazismus).
Angus, Thong, & The Perfect Snogging(Yeah a stupid teenager's film but for no reason I just like it so much;-P)

*Books:mostly i read chinese books.i'm not very interested nor resourceful in english literatures.but the play by Shakespeare and short fictions by Oscar Wilde,i like them very much.i want to read these books in orignal edition but i don't have access to:( 2010:recently my good friend,a book maniac, has relit my curiosity towards English books:)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

at this moment 2 things come to my head:
one is,i have participated in the whole work of a big drama-play which was casted totally by visually-impaired people!
another is, my first backpack experience abroad, i have made a 10-day 4-star travell to Thailand with 500yuan double-way flights,1000yuan for 4 days of stay in 4-star hotel including amazing buffet breakfast and 0yuan for visas~

Teach, Learn, Share

serious teaching of Chinese language to foreign students--i'm so lovin' it!
"Food surfing"--finding those hidden local favourates!
color match(can these be called skills...?)
shooting pictures espcially using traditional film camera,developing films
some Peking Opera
talking for hours......

Countries I’ve Visited

China, France, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

China

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