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Overview

  • 4 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Korean; learning Arabic, Spanish, Turkish
  • 27, Female
  • Member since 2015
  • Traveller
  • Travelling
  • From south korea
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

2015
I graduated from high school. Clueless I was. But I managed out to enrol to university with no specific goals.
2016~2017
After 1 semester. I realize this is not my way. Nor where I belong to. My cherished desire to travel the world which was hatched during reading bunches of traveling books while in the library where I was supposed to study for the exams, crawls back to my mind and persuades me to follow my heart. So I quit and declare to my parents that I quit uni, and that I will travel the world after earning a bit of money in australia. Dissuasion as determined as I am from my parents bounces back to my ears. Nevertheless, I don't listen. I find a work to raise a bit of money to go to australia. Work for 5 months. and pack my stuffs. Go to airport. Arrive perth. Work for 9 months again after some struggling to find works.
2018
I tried to travel by bike inspired by some amazing cyclists who travel the world. but find it too hard, tiring and not for me. So I choose to travel all over australia by hitchhiking for the rest 3 months of my visa. Meeting some amazing people going through a bit of frustrating moments.

Now I can't shun away from the improvisational sensation that hitchhiking enables me to feel. I love the feeling of not knowing of where I am going to sleep tonight, or even where I am going now, whom I will meet today. Because that feeling makes me more present at here and now. I love all these 'not-knowingness' so much that it became quite indispensable in my traveling. In that reason I've never stayed in the hostel while hitchhiking australia also haven't used couch surfing quite often. As I preferred knocking on the random houses' door than thinking about planning where to go and whom to meet. However, still I love to meet some like-minded people who love traveling and travelers or night-talking filled with one's own adventures, experiences. And still I love to go to where has a beautiful nature that I can fully be connected with every other being.

Also, I have been helped a lot by other people who have never seen me ever before. They made me feel I couldn't appreciate this life more than this. Now I want to pay back to other people I will meet on the road. If everybody keeps doing like this I believe the help from stranger will multiply. And we will be able to live in more trust-based society rather than money. I earned money in the thought that I would need a lot of money to travel the world. But I realized that I don't need that much of money if you are willing to adapt your mind to your environment a bit more flexibly. So that I decide to spend my money only for donating to the meeded one while traveling, piece by piece to a bit of all the world and for essential costs like visa fee or hospital cost when sick. The rest of cost like food and shelter. I decide to figure them out by help from stranger.
I am coming to realize that one of the systems that human made, 'money' kind of eliminated everything that used to glare once. The kinds of care, gratefulness, connection with other being seem to be the lost ones when the money is used for human's 'efficient' way of exchange to please both parties compatibly. So I want to test the world how much the world is still liveable without money. How much the humanity is still alive.

So that I travel. My journey has just begun.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

to meet another amazing people in the world

Interests

I'd love to know more about sustainable life, including learning things like wild edible / medicinal plans. I am by no mean interested in small talks like how is your brother's girl friend going or how fast his motorbike can go( that doesn't mean this is bad topic). I would rather talk about how the current system that human made are dominating humans, or that there can be a happy death. Also I am interested in spiritual life.

Music, Movies, and Books

I love to read about philosophy like nietzsche schopenhauer or spiritual books by jidu krishnamurti and the movie 'into the wild' and numerous travelling narrative that hatched the dream and drew me to this moment.
In music I like the songs from every country !

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Quiting the uni!
Taking a ride behind of the truck in country
Riding a bike from perth to pinnacles
Hitchhiking
Walking for 10 hours to get out of city-area in melbourne getting all wet all the way

Teach, Learn, Share

Here is some quotes that I love and stem my life.
Love all the things you will encounter from now
If you love your life it will give the love back to you
The real dangerous life is the life which doesn't take any danger
The ship is the safest when anchored in the port, but that's not what the ship is for.
We are all the same. Just with the different story, for a different name.
Don't let your dream be the stone , Locked in the room. Move it, Let it dancing in your life freely.
Let the passion lead your life.
Live on the edge and when you cross that boundary by breaking your limit you will open the new world.
Human being is one kind of intent.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can offer the happiness for sure and the interesting conversation with me and some korean too if you wanna study :D
And I can cook some korean things although I am not so sure about the results

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, South Korea

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