Hi, I'm Japanese girl, Hina and far from the word ''shy'', trust me. I basically trust everyone. Especially love ppl who can talk with about meaningful things deeply, but any kind of topics are welcomed. Hanging out with friends is nice but I also love, actually absolutely need certain time to be alone and that's why I always do solo traveling. Of course meeting ppl at the destination is also wonderful.

Now I'm studying in Sweden as an exchange student for a yr. When I was a middle and high school student, my dream was to be a ballet dancer, so was going to 3 ballet studios and training almost every day. However I gave up after suffering from diet disorder, now have recovered though, and got another dream. That was going to university and finding what I wanted to do in the future instead of ballet.
After entering in the university, I firstly joined in the volunteer because I've been fascinating by it since I was a middle high school student. However I got a question instead. That is ''What is working at NGO like''. In order to uncover this, started internship at fair trade NGO company. At the very bigining of the job, it was fun, but gradually became bored by continuing writing about the company on SNS, so I quit.
Staying in Sweden is like, life-changing event. Everything was amazing. The environment is so different from Tokyo obviously in that population, air, nature etc but in fact easy to immerse myself into it cuz of maybe warm welcome from the Swedes.
What's more, through traveling some countries around Sweden, have learned the world was much bigger and safer and the people were gentler and softer than I could expect. My first trip was off to Finland and since then, I'm sticking in traveling whenever I have time and money.

Now I'm really attracted by Ireland. Plz give me some info or recommendations if you could:))) So excited to hear such things!

Have many interests and these are so changeable, but anyway like learning new things and discovering shining things. Nice to meet you:)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Can make friends with many people who have various backgrounds. It must be fun cuz maybe can hear and know about the different cultures and make my view much wider. Of course can save money for staying. Cheap and free things are the best friends for students.

Interests

I'd been learning ballet for about 15yrs but can dance any kind of dances like zumba, jazz, hiphop,,,,,.
Especially like singing musical songs and Disney songs.
If there is a piano, I'll definitely jump into.
Love solo traveling. As for movies, my best is Ghibli movies made in Japan.

• animals
• singing
• dancing
• ballet dancing
• organic food
• walking
• anime
• traveling
• eating out
• drawing
• classical music
• karaoke
• backpacking
• swimming
• gender studies
• mathematics
• youtube
• eating
• watching movies
• vegetarianism
• learning new things
• wild nature
• sweets
• listening to music
• ramen
• indigenous people
• japanese
• playing piano
• eco-friendly
• sustainable living
• drinking tea
• ghibli
• disney
• learning about other cultures
• musical theatre
• poland
• chopin
• netherlands
• taking photos
• celtic music
• watching documentaries
• cafe hopping

Music, Movies, and Books

Music...every Ghibli music, anime songs, ABBA, Carpenters, Enya, The End of the World(Japanese), Ikimonogakari(Japanese), Momokuro(Japanese), Celtic music, My heart will go on, High School Musical, Chopin

Books...Old man and the sea
Movies...Ghibli movies, Titanic, Disney, The Secret of Blue Water(anime)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Swam about 400m in the pool when I was an elementary school student. Haven't swum such a distance since then, so I don't know whether I can do now, but if I have time, wanna try it again.

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach...dancing, how the life in Tokyo (Japan),Hokkaido(Japan) and Sweden is, how to cook rice without rice cooker, how to do Karaoke, how to get perfect pitch

Wanna learn Violin, Celtic music, beautiful English, traveling hacks

Please give me some inspirations about what kind of jobs are appropriate for me:(

What I Can Share with Hosts

hot tea, dancing and singing

Countries I’ve Visited

Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Sweden