I'm a Japanese curious woman who's been interested in art, language, foreign culture, and many other things.

I was grown up in Kochi, Japan which is quite local town surrounded by hills and the Pacific ocean.
I leave my hometown to study painting at university in Kyoto,
and from this time I've been keeping up paintings and fancyworks.
(My artist website→http://minamiwatanabe.jimdo.com)
in the middle of university life I lived in Norwich, England for 1 year as an exchange student studied painting.
Studying in foreign country was one of my dreams, this changed my life so much.

I leant how it's difficult to really know people without fluent language,
at the same time how it's easy to be friendly when there's some common term!
For me it was lucky to have my own art which express my inner world.

I visited lots of EU countries while I was in UK.
that's experience made me travel crazy.
I loved to see local people in old towns, local houses imagining how's their daily life,
antique bookstores, museums, gardens, pubs, churches.

My husband is quite easygoing, open hearted person same as me.
He likes running (joining full marathon every year), swimming, scuba diving.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've been loved to keep in touch with my foreign friends, and always open to new friends.

Me and my husband Wataru are on travel around the world from April 2016 to March 2017.
We'd like to know people's daily life in their own place and share it for a while.

Not only see people in foreign country, but to know them is much much nicer and fun, interesting, productive
this is what I leant by my experience.

***when I put public travel I'm looking for host who let us stay for few days, not meet up only. Because I think only meet up can't be enough to learn each other and make relationship. Thank you :) ***

Interests

Etching, oil painting, drawing, picture books, fancy works, gardening, photographing, reading books, traveling, DIY, musical, playing Ukulele, drinking with friends.
ALWAYS LOVE MAKING THINGS BY MYSELF!!

• arts
• culture
• books
• diy
• marathon
• running
• drinking
• pub crawls
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• scuba diving
• swimming
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Disney, Jazz, Takarazuka, Japanese pop, Jake shimabukuro, the beatles, steel pan music, Edith Piaf, Ingrid Michelson, Frank Sinatra
"A whole new world" "Canon""Blackbird""Ichigo ichie" "What a wonderful world" "moon river""over the rainbow"etc...

Movies:Audrey Hepburn's, Disney's, Minions, Moomins... basically animation and old movies are my favorites.

Books:The series of Anne of Green gables, Little House on the Prairie, Brambly Hedge, Winnie the pooh, Michael Ende, Shiba Ryotorou's Japanese history novel, Japanese literature, picture books.

Comic books: ONE PIECE, and so many for boys and girls.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Round the world trip

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd like to exchange idea and bit knowledge of art, gardening, fancyworks, language!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Travel experience and passion for culture, happy time :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United States