Hi! This is Phoebe from Hong Kong 👋🏼
Getting back on CS because I always enjoy meeting new friends, especially when I'm travelling. I decided to take a career break to spend some time traveling, exploring new hobbies and making new friends from different backgrounds.

I'm an easy-going person, always up for adventures and good food! I love to travel, get to know new cultures, meet new people and learn about their life stories!

CURRENT MISSION

Be a lifelong learner
Embrace all the challenges and uncertainties in my travel and life
Capture sunrise/sunset in every city I visit

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I enjoy meeting new people and learn about their life stories and thoughts!
To me, the idea that you and someone from another part of the world, with different cultural backgrounds can have a chance walk into each other's life is just amazing!

Interests

One of my biggest interests is to learn new languages, it's the second best way to understand the culture of a place in my opinion! (for your reference, the first best way is through having the local food ;) )
I like good food, films, books, history, tea&coffee, cocktails, wine, hiking, watching sunrise and sunset

• arts
• writing
• literature
• architecture
• wine
• cocktails
• coffee
• walking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• hiking
• cultural studies
• history
• philosophy
• food
• tea
• cultures
• learning languages
• museums
• cultural exchange
• sunsets
• people-watching
• chats

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Jazz music, movie soundtracks, R&B, indie music

Movies:
Wes Anderson's movies (e.g. Grand Budapest Hotel)
Richard Linklater's movies (Boyhood, Before Sunrise)
Back to the Future trilogy
Into the Wild, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Legend of 1900, Submarine, 500 days with Summer
The Moon

Books:
Vermeer's Hat
A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Agota Kristof
Taipei People by Pai Hsien-yung
The Shadow of the Wind

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Traveling alone! The encounters and experiences are so empowering and taught me a lot to be open-minded and embrace spontaneity in life.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach
Languages that I know, especially Cantonese (a language with 9 sounds! :P)
Coffee brewing
Food recipes
Learn
New languages and everything that is new to me!
Share
My stories, food and tea(if I have them with me), book and movie recommendations, random history facts, food and drink recommendations of the places I have been

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share stories about my travel stories, knowledge about cultures (especially Chinese culture), food recommendation of the cities I have visited, book and movie recommendations!

I also love cooking and would be happy to cook a meal for my hosts :)

And I can share my Chinese tea with you, if I have it with me.(Yes, I love tea so I bring it everywhere I go!)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Myanmar, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Hong Kong, Spain, Sweden