CURRENT MISSION

There's no border in life. Look wide, go wide.

ABOUT ME

Hi,

I'm Yi-Ning, a curious, imaginative and independent person interested in many things. I like to explore new areas, to meet new friends and to learn/share different cultures and stories!
When I am in city, I often go to museums, movies, bookstores, creative area or local markets. I also like to go in nature, not an expert but like to have more and more adventures. Experience and enjoy life !

I grew up in Kaohsiung. Currently I'm also working in Kaohsiung city.
I was a French major student, during my study, I went to Aix en Provence for student exchange in six months and traveled a lot, I made new friends, even good friends by Couchsurfing. I'd been to Thai-Burma border as a NGO intern for 1.5 months.
After graduation, I stayed one year at HengChun historical town to teach Geography and basic French (I miss HengChun, it is a fantastic town surrounding by nature) , and then moved back Kaohsiung to teach children English. It was fun to be with children, but no much free time and holidays to travel.. Now I’m working for a system integration company. I’m still want to have more traveling time haha, trying to find flexible opportunities to work and move easily.

If you are coming to Kaohsiung, welcome to meet up and let's explore the city or other areas near by !

Having dreams and making them cometure.
Love nature and life.
We are all in this beautiful world.

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For travellers who are coming to Taiwan or already here, if you have any question, you can contact me by CS or FB message. If you add me friend on FB, let me know that you are from CS Thanks :)
( You can send a CS message when you add it)

Also you can follow my IG, where I pictured and wrote about my trips and life scenes in Taiwan

Facebook ➜ https://www.facebook.com/yininghwang

IG ➜ https://www.instagram.com/thesillywanderer/

PHILOSOPHY

- The Song “Imagine” by John Lennon
- “Happiness only real when shared ” by Christopher McCandless

Love my family and friends.
Like to enjoy new things and see beautiful things:) Discovering is also a great activity, you can try to fool around in an area you know it very well, you'll always find out something amazing that you didn't see it before!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Found CS Projet on a Taiwanese website. It's a creative and a great idea to meet new friends from the world.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Meeting people from different places and at that moment, you talk, you laugh, you are just like old friends, it's amazing!! Each person I met was unforgettable. Lucky to meet you! ♡

Interests

- meeting people
- hang out with friends
- try/learn new things
- reading books/ watching movies/ TV series
- go for museums/ parks/ nature
- drawing
- handicraft (for example, hand-made cards)

• walking
• movies
• reading
• music
• hiking
• swimming
• languages
• art
• food
• nature
• friends
• cultures
• biking
• learning new things
• museums
• life stories
• visual culture

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
- Into the Wild, Tim Burton's (Big Fish, Corpse Bride...etc), The Big Blue, Stranger than Fiction, Fight club, L'Auberge espagnole, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Nobady Knows, Together, Elina, The Way Home, Das Fliegende Klassenzimmer, Birdy, Midnight in Paris, Joyeux Noël, Intouchable, films by David Lynch... too many!

Music:
蘇打綠 (Sodagreen), 張懸 (Deserts Xuan), 五月天 (May Day), Manic Sheep,
雨のパレード, DYGL, Kyo, Grégory Lemarchal, Coeur de Pirate, Feist, We are trees... and more

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Lied down under sparkling stars night with music after BBQ on freezing mountain with all friends.
- Chose a date to celebrate birthday of my, Pun and Sunny, then bought a cake, spent whole day beside beach
- Took an open umbrella, Jumped down from a high cabinet with my bosom friend (when I was kid)
- Broke a wall in my home with many neighbors and friends; someone broke his hammer stick too
- Spent three weeks and visited lots of places in the east of Australia
- My dad put me on his back while he was swimming!
- Traveled Miao-Li county without planning and didn't know where to sleep overnight in winter with Hallie (the end is amazing, people were nice there)
- Lied down on streets near my house at night, ran crazily through several streets without shoes
- Every family trip when I was child
- Explored in every places even in school with friends or sometimes alone (imagined ourselves as great explorers)
- My exchange student life in France
- The time I was an intern in a Taiwanese NGO work team near Thai-Burma border
- Taught at HengChun, everyday surround by noisy but lovely kids
- Writing postcards for friends also received postcards.
- Having precious friends that met from CS for years~ And we had tried to meet and travel together again somewhere in the world! ♡
- Keep traveling the world ~
- Joining CS!
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Teach, Learn, Share

- I can teach you Mandarin and basic Minnan ( a dialect that most Taiwaneses speak in daily life )
- Share Taiwanese culture/stories
- Share traveling stories
- Talk about any topic or ideas of this huge, sometime strange but beautiful world
- I am going to learn to make some Taiwanese dishes, then I can share/ teach you too ; )

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Cambodia, China, Egypt, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Monaco, Philippines, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Taiwan