2025 summer update

Gonna spend a summer semester in Boston, would be able to host but accept female guests only:)

As a 12 year old fan of BVB, never had I thought that I would be able to check out the games of Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Bayern Munich in a week:)
(And ready to see my team get shot 10 goals in a week:)

2025.4 update

Finally I think I needed to get a little bit more serious with my profile:)

I think I am also a kind of ChatGPT type of person, but ChatKuwa is of a particular style.
Actually, Kuwa is the Japanese reading of the Chinese character of my name 桑. So basically I have three names: Sangrou, Vida (might be strange in Spanish but a long story), and Kuwa.
I would consider myself to be switching between different worlds: and as a tool of switching, I learn languages.
I identify with “queerness” a lot, which is to say not to be trapped in a single monolithic world that we are placed in. Travelling is a physical and straightforward way of doing that; meeting people with totally different stories, lifestyles, and mindsets (or “cases”, as we parliamentary debaters say) is another. That’s why I am attracted to the human-beings that could make me feel “pleasantly swayed.” I might not always be “persuaded”, especially in terms of actions; but those encounters might be the lingering dimming glimmer in my life. That’s what I mean by “interesting” potentially:)
That might be a little bit too abstract…? (Yeah sometimes I am just abstract
I don’t rate my confidence level as very high, so there might be a lot of other people more interesting than me!
But here are some minute things that you can talk (not necessarily exclusively:) with me (a Chinese multi-broken-lingual former linguistic-debate… music student
—the standard of a (non)-AI songwriting
—social-linguistics of Chinese dialects (or other tonal languages) from both academic and personal perspectives…?
—how those dialects were sung in indie bands
—experience of being a student/jobless expat in Philly, Seoul, Boston, New York, and Valencia
—my hometown Hangzhou (now I am introducing it as where deepseek is from:)
—how would a Chinese internet troll argue
—impossible “how-can-prop/opp-win” debates, and “bite-the-bullet” arguments (such as “This House Would not Love”)
—politics (academically/s or everything informally academic
—music theory/music review/rock history
—K-pop&J-pop, Asian entertainment industry, how do people work.
—queer theories in my own interpretation
—your unique/contentious view/argument/hot-take about everything

2025.1 update
I am a Chinese international student studying in Berklee College of Music. Before I started studying music, I spent three years studying in a small liberal arts college in Philadelphia, United States.
For the next several months, I will be studying abroad in Valencia, Spain for Berklee’s studying abroad program. I really hope that I can get some inspirations during my journey in Europe!

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I am a Chinese international student who is studying in Philly. I hope I can meet people around the world!
I am a linguistics and languages major. I speak Mandarin, Japanese, Cantonese, and Korean. I have also taken Spanish and German before. So if you are interested in languages and cultures, it would be fun to talk to me:)
I also play guitar and do some songwriting. It would be nice if you can recommend your favorite music to me!
I used to do parliamentary debating so I guess I am interested in talking about everything: politics, philosophy, sociology… or other stuff you are interested in.
and we can share views together!

言語学に夢中のアイドルワタク。
日本のテレビ番組が大好き＾＾
面白く、楽しく生きたい（╹◡╹）

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

横浜で上級の日本のサマーキャンプに参加してるから、日本をもっと楽しめるように！

Interests

Languages, interesting conversations, meeting new people, and music

• music
• soccer
• food
• japan
• korea
• akb48

Music, Movies, and Books

音楽:
AKB48
乃木坂46
欅坂46
モーニング娘
SEKAI NO OWARI
Mr. Children
大森靖子
K-Pop (my favorite group is Red Velvet)
他にイギリスのロック音楽も好きだし、the BeatlesやPink Floydとか
Taylor Swiftも大好き！
本:
指原莉乃の「逆転力」
村田紗耶香の「コンビニ人間」
芥川龍之介の「薮の中」

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

字幕組を作って、オーナイトニッポンというラジオを翻訳した！(実は大好きなさしまゆのために)

Couch-surfed in New York for a month

Teach, Learn, Share

教える: 中国語、英語、韓国語、言語学、ギター
勉強してる: 日本語と韓国語
分け合う: 中華料理！

What I Can Share with Hosts

アメリカで留学の経験
どうやって言語と言語学に興味になったこと
面白いキャラの私🤣

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, South Korea, Spain, United States