Hello! I'm Nicohl, coming from Taiwan and speaking English, Mandarin Chinese, and French (and recently busy horning my baby German and Japanese!). A law school student in the U.S. and an avid traveler, my lifelong passions involve food, water sports, language and culture learning, novels and short stories. Countries that I've visited and miss the most are Italy, Laos, and Cambodia. Once an exchange student at Paris, I have to admit I'm francophile (the food! the theater!!)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As a surfer:
I am always respectful. I usually go to bed before midnight and get up around 7, but when I travel I'm very adaptable. I love to cook and exchange experience of traveling and cultural studies.

As a couch provider:
Unfortunately, I'm going to spend my first year in law school living on-campus, so I won't be able to receive guest for this academic year.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I have several warm, inspiring and fun experiences with my super kind hosts and guests!

People that we have hosted in our suburban apartment:
Kevin (from America)
Rayla (Spain)
Nicholas (France)
Jamie (England)
Satoshi (Japan)

People that I surfed with:
Michel (Luxembourg)
Ellen (Antwerp, Belgium)
Damien (Liege, Belgium)
Nicolas (Rennes, France)
Sam (Lyon, France)

Interests

Reading, cooking, drawing, walking and traveling.

• books
• literature
• cooking
• walking
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• buddhist
• cultural studies
• economics
• teaching
• history
• languages
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Short stories by Maupassant, Borges, Chekov.. Novels by Angela Carter, Virginia Woolf, Umberto Eco, Oscar Wilde, just to name a few. Plays by Arthur Schnitzler, Alan Bennett, Paula Vogel, David Mamet, Harold Pinter... and practically all Chinese classics

Movies: old classic Hollywood movies, particularly the ones starring Audrey Hepburn, that's how I pass my childhood with my mother in front of the screen. All kinds of Animation, documentaries. Experimental films by Agnes Varda and Maya Deren. French nouvelle vague. Passolini and Visconti. There are too many to be listed.

Music: Jazz. Classical music.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've been volunteer teacher for a child care center back in my hometown, therefore I have eight little 5-year-olds as my children when I just reached 18 (now they are going to junior high school). :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cambodia, China, England, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Laos, Luxembourg, Malaysia, South Korea, Spain, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Taiwan