✈️ California—Minnesota—Taiwan & back✈️

I grew up in Santa Cruz, California, went to a small liberal arts college in Minnesota where I studied biology and Chinese, spent a year in Taiwan on a fellowship teaching English, and am now back in California, working at the California State Parks on Angel Island.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

No person is an island, but I live on one

Interests

• swing dancing
• reading
• podcasts
• tennis
• table tennis
• philosophy
• chinese
• taiwan
• lindy hop
• mandarin
• taiwanese food
• citizen science

Music, Movies, and Books

Podcasts:
Invisibilia
UNDISCOVERED
The Track
Direct Currents

Recent Reads:
The Secret Life of Pronouns — James Pennebaker
The Defining Decade: Why your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of them Now — Meg Jay Ph.D
My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love — Dessa

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Swing danced with Bill Nye the Science Guy at a German Bierhaus in New York City

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you//would love to practice:
Lindy Hop — a type of swing dancing
Mandarin Chinese
Tennis

What I Can Share with Hosts

Cooking—
Taiwanese style breakfasts
Homemade vegetarian sushi
Homemade wontons

Countries I’ve Visited

Mexico, Taiwan, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Taiwan, United States