CURRENT MISSION

To experience the world while I'm still young (and wild) and free.

ABOUT ME

I'm Chinese-American - my mom grew up in Hong Kong and my dad was born and raised in El Salvador. I was born in Texas but I grew up in Portland, Oregon. I love the Pacific Northwest - the BEER, the coffee, the trees, and the people. I went to university for 4 years in Los Angeles and lived in London for a year for graduate school. Now I live in Brooklyn, NY, and I love it.

PHILOSOPHY

Change is good. Everything will work out in the end.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My best friend and I CouchSurfed with Mathieu in Paris for 4 nights - we had a blast!

I hosted Daniele, who was moving to London from Bergamo, Italy and needed a place to stay for a few days while he looked for an apartment.

Holger, from Germany, came here on holiday and stayed for four nights at my place.

Interests

I love cooking elaborate meals from scratch, people-watching, and wandering through new cities. I am a vegetarian for environmental reasons, though I do eat fish (I have a weakness for sushi!). I also enjoy reading, visiting art museums, and having pints with good friends.

I also like cheese...gelato...hot sauce...chocolate...red wine.

• fish
• arts
• cooking
• chocolate
• wine
• red wine
• cheese
• beer
• coffee
• vegetarian
• working out
• reading
• painting
• fishing

Music, Movies, and Books

Writers: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Leo Tolstoi

Books: The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, Bel Canto, Interpretor of Maladies, Paradise Lost, Love in the Time of Cholera, War and Peace, Anna Karenina

Movies: Casablanca, Gosford Park, Sense and Sensibility, The Graduate

Music: Third Eye Blind, Matchbox Twenty, Rob Thomas, Goo Goo Dolls, Stereophonics, Negrita, Journey, Rejn, Simon & Garfunkel

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I spent a week at a Navajo Indian reservation - painting houses, tutoring children, driving through beautiful desert highways, and bonding with amazing people.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, China, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States