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Why I'm on Couchsurfing

My first Couchsurfing experience was when I travelled to Zurich, Switzerland. I hesitated if I chose hostels or someone's spare couches. Then my inner adventurous spirit beat me, and once it happened, it's hard to hold me back from exploring fascination of diverse cultures and meeting friends from different backgrounds. I enjoy listening to travellers’ amazing stories, spending wonderful time with them and exchanging our interests and thoughts on the life. Thousands thanks for all my hosts, highly appreciate your kindness and awesomeness! - Ying ZHANG, Zurich, Switzerland - Noé Curtz, Geneva, Switzerland - Cristina Terre, New York City, USA - Jean, New York City, USA - Agathe Riquier, Washington DC, USA - Kristiana Zerom, Chicago, USA - Michael Terkowski, San Francisco, USA - Pod Share, Los Angeles, USA - Rendon Lafitte, Madrid, Spain - Karma Buena, Valencia, Spain And also many thanks for all my guests, appreciate you make my life colourful! - Teddy Moulin, Nîmes, France - Cosmina Moghior, Iași, Romania - Timothy Long, Singapore - Elena Petukhova, St Petersburg, Russian Federation - Joey ZHOU, Shanghai, China - Mingchen LIU, Caen, France - Qian ZHU, Shanghai, China If you are willing to send a request to me, please look through all my profile, and you will find the CODE of request in "My Home". If not so, please forgive me to cancel your request without any replies. Thanks a lot for your understanding!

About

Arts & Cultural Management, Choreographer, Dancer, Chinese Language Teacher

MBA in Arts & Cultural Management

Music, Movies, and Books

"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish." - Steve Jobs - Music Jazz decorates my appearance, Rock expresses my inside. Classical, Movie Tracks, Chill Music are great choices for study! Recommend some streaming music stations: Spotify, Accuradio, Xiami Adele, Alexandre Desplat, Alice Sara Ott, Amy Winehouse, The Beatles, Carla Bruni, The Civil Wars, Coldplay, Dun TAN, Draft Punk, Daniela Andrade, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Diana Krall, The Dø, Ennio Morricone, Feist, Hans Zimmer, Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, João Gilberto, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Lennon, Karen O, Keren Ann, Muse, Norah Jones, Ólafur Arnalds, Radiohead, Sam Smith, Steve Reich, Superpoze, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Woodkid, Yann Tiersen, Yo-Yo Ma - Movies I am not a big fan of cinema, sometimes I prefer watching some documentaries or high ranked or independent films at home, on my own or with my friends. I also like searching YouTube, TED, Xiaoshuo are my top two watching lists. Pina, The Great Gatsby, The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather, The Dark Knight, Schindler’s List, The Lord of the Rings, Forrest Gump, Inception, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Life is Beautiful, Léon, Once Upon a Time in the West, Interstellar, Untouchable, The Legend of 1900, The Pianist, Whiplash, Django Unchained, Amélie, A Clockwork Orange, Lawrence of Arabia, Singin’ in the Rain, 3 Idiots, A Beautiful Mind, Gone with the Wind, 12 Years a Slave, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Martian, Harry Potter, The King’s Speech, Gravity, La Vie en Rose, Avatar, Human - Books I am so into reading electric books, easy to carry, look up the dictionary, and take notes, though it has never surpassed the aroma of physical books. Recommend some daily reading apps: The Guardian, Issuu, We Read, Zhihu The Great Gatsby, Transnational Dialogues, Art Worlds, Cultural Time, Artists’ Residencies, Noise, Big Bucks, Talking Prices, Marketing the Arts, Business Model Generation, Value Proposition Design, Hyperbole and a Half, Building Mobile Experience, Winner Take All, How the West was Lost, Dead Aid, Inequality Matters, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Business Adventures

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One Amazing Thing I've Done

In 2015 summer, I took a 40 days solo trip cross from east coast to west coast in the United States of America. That was my first time to USA, 11 cities and 6 surfers hosted me and gave me a lot of treats. During this trip, the most amazing thing was I unexpectedly met my San Francisco couch at the Yellowstone National Park, especially when I was worried about no place to stay in SF. Sometimes it’s just a fate, and my host is a dancer too, we danced Cuban Salsa together in the forest, noted that was a starry night.

Teach, Learn, Share

- Teach 1. Dance: Of course, I can teach you dance if you like, any kinds of dance I’ve learned. I had more than 10 years dance teaching experiences, and my students are from kids to adults. 2. Chinese: Btw, I forgot to mention that I am also an IPA Certificated Chinese Language Teacher, if you like Chinese culture, and willing to learn Chinese, I could be your patient teacher. - Learn 1. Language: As you read my profile before, you can see I am learning French & Portuguese, so it’s very welcome if we could be language partner. 2. Any kinds of art I am interested in: Recently I am self-learning Ukulele, I hope I could play my “Dolphin” more beautifully. I will appreciate your help on any artistic skills teaching. - Share 1. Culture & Experience Exchange: Would you like to be a storyteller? I’d love to be your listener. 2. Artwork collaboration I am an art lover, if you are an artist, we could collaborate some creative ideas.

What I Can Share With Hosts

- Chinese Home-made Receipts It’s my pleasure to share you with our Chinese cuisine, and welcome any exchange, I know we both can’t live without food! - Daily Workouts I do daily exercise, if you like, we can do yoga, stretch, cardio, and strength workouts together. - Art Events Looking into the local art events is my passion, if you have time, and like the arts, why don’t we visit museums or attend to concerts/theatres together?

My Interests

Top 3: - Arts You won't believe in how many years I have practiced dance. It's more than 20 years, since I was just 5 years old. And it’s the entire core reason of why I love the arts so much! I have learned these kinds of dance, Chinese Traditional & Folk Dance, Contemporary Dance, Indian & Japanese Dance, Tap Dance, Cowboy Dance, Rumba, Cha-Cha, Jazz. Contemporary dance is my favourite, because it’s the most powerful way to manifest your interior monologue. Isadora Duncan, Pina Bausch, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Xing JIN are those choreographers I admire and respect. My artistic career has evolved from dancer to teacher, then choreographer to events manager. And I found the arts have internal connections, over the time, I yearned to explore more possibilities within the arts, and that’s why I decided to quit my job, and to enhance my global exposure with world leading art managers and cultural icons by studying in Paris. - Cultures If you want to experience a culture is totally different from your own background, please take a trip outside your city, learn a language you are not familiar, and meet new friends from other countries. It’s the key factor employed by Couchsurfing, I’d like to be one of contributors for co-building this lovely worldwide community. And it also reminds me of an interdisciplinary Brazilian martial art – Capoeira, I have practiced it since 2010. So far I can sing Portuguese songs, play Capoeira instruments, and meet friends from all over the world, and I was even invited to USA to participate in my first master’s Capoeira Reunion. We are like a big family with the same concept as Couchsurfing. - Learning New Things “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo is widely recognised as one of the most diversely talented individuals ever to have lived. And his genius always motivates me to keep learning to be a better people.