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Overview

  • 16 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English; learning German, Italian
  • 40, Female
  • Member since 2007
  • professional bummer
  • grad student
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To outdo Marco Polo

ABOUT ME

I love everything about traveling, meeting new people from different cultures, hearing stories from halfway around the world, getting lost in streets of strange places, brief encounters with perfect strangers...

PHILOSOPHY

I live to see the world.
To eat, breathe and see everything as much as I can.
I want to experience the very most of every present moment.
I want to inhale and discover every bit of emotion this life has to offer.
Not being afraid to live, to give my all and let go of myself completely, to savour the very essence of being young and free.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Would love to meet as many people as possible from different cultures, introduce them to whatever I know and in turn learn about the world they know.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Stayed with Letti, my first CS host in Adelaide! Met with Toff, who drove over to have some pasta and beer with us. Since then I've met with plenty of fantastic people from the world of CS and can't get enough of them!

Interests

Travel, music - listening and playing, writing, art, film, photography, dance, people, and lately, video games

I worked as a journalist shortly before post grad and would love to meet any journalists out there.

  • arts
  • writing
  • photography
  • perfumes
  • dancing
  • beer
  • video games
  • traveling
  • magic
  • music
  • journalism
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Favourite reads - Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Tony Parson's Man and Boy, Bill Bryson's Down Under, Nick Hornby's High Fidelity

Favourite flicks - Before Sunset, Closer, Star Wars, Be With Me, Priceless, The Godfather, Death Proof

Ear Candy - Pancho Sanchez, John Mayer, Counting Crows, Damien Rice, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Hootie & the Blowfish, Nada Surf, Mojo Blues Band, Freddy King, Diana Krall, Miles Davis, Eva Cassidy, Suzanne Vega, Chick Corea, Dave Matthews, Rage, Iron Maiden, Rage against the Machine, Green Day, John Pizzerelli, Jaco Pastorius, John Scofield, US3

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Crashed a car in Death Valley California, got stranded in the desert for 3 days...and survived.

Teach, Learn, Share

Sharing music and skills- all the better if you're a musician yourself!

Languages - want to learn to swear in as many languages as possible. I'll teach you what i know too. =p jk.

Silly magic tricks - like making toothpicks jump; guaranteed to keep crying kids (or adults) quiet for a few minutes.

Thoughts on life - want to hear what others think about life.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Germany, Italy, Singapore

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