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Overview

  • 64 references 44 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English, Korean; learning Spanish
  • 32, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • Student & Freelance writer/translator
  • MFA
  • From China
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About Me

Hey all CSers so happy to be back to this lovely community despite the pandemic
I made a decision to leave Korea and relocate to Canada this year
Now I am backpacking in Thailand and will be flying to San Francisco in November :D
Looking forward to meeting people with good vibes 🍀

Love and Peace🌈

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studied and lived in Seoul
film buff, exhibition goer
live show with craft beer
passionate chef without certificate
ovo-lacto vegetarian

(ps: korea could be one of the most challenging countries for vegetarians to eat out,
if you are a vegetarian and lost in meat menus - especially Korean food
feel free to write to me and I will be glad to help!)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

meeting different people and traveling around to explore what's unwritten in guidebooks.
communicating and learning from each other.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was hosted for the first time in May, 2012 in Chengdu. My friend and I went to a music festival there.

Hosted my first guest in Seoul, Oct, 2013. She's a korean singer living in Sweden.

Interests

reading books
films
guitar
gigs, exhibitions
photography
astrology, tarot
and anything about adventure

  • arts
  • books
  • festivals
  • beer
  • vegetarian
  • movies
  • music
  • buddhist
  • volunteering
  • cinema
  • exhibitions
  • museum
  • astrology
  • spicy food
  • workaway
  • cooking and eating

Music, Movies, and Books

Jazz, tango, salsa, swing, blues and classical music.
Some meditation music as well when I miss connection to the nature.

Movies:
Theo Angelopoulos, Hong Sang-soo, Fernando Solanas, Zhang Lu, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Andrei Tarkovsky, Aki Kaurismaki.

Books:
Literature, Poetry, Astrology, Film critics, Political philosophy

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travelled by minivan from Qikou village to Jiaxian(China) along the Yellow riverbank road in July 2013, witnessed the terrible weather and landslides of the mountain areas, walked across the mud and landslides with bare feet and transfer to small taxi crowded with 13 people in.

Drinking and chatting with friends from 11pm to 9am at Haeundae beach in Busan (can't do that anymore lol)

Teach, Learn, Share

Chinese cuisine, Calligraphy, Chinese, or Korean(?) haha...

What I Can Share with Hosts

Chinese cuisine, Chinese & Korean language, travel stories and tips for the countries I've been to, western astrology and Chinese astrology study

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, South Korea, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, China, South Korea

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