CURRENT MISSION

To love,
to know,
to sympathize;
to explore and express myself,
and to see the world.
"君子不患人不知己，更患己不知人。"

ABOUT ME

I keep a list of 999 things that I like:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yo60oQShiyydlz7V__PRVUpm_KbX_TZzqZ5HcohNxAk/edit?usp=sharing

You can read a little story of mine here: http://teawithstrangers.strikingly.com/

Hola! 你好! I grew up in China and on the 18th day after my 18th birthday, I got on a plane across the Pacific Ocean and landed in the famed Los Angeles. Spent 4 years in a liberal arts college bubble and backpacked in Thailand, Mexico, New Zealand and all over the U.S. in escape.

Do you believe in art ?

My next trip is Coachella - Joshua Tree National Park - LA - Chicago - DC. I want to see lots of art and take a few photos on the road. And journal and reflect a lot.

I'm certified to dive 30 meters deep in the ocean and I'd like to learn juggling and ukulele. Too bad that I can't do both at the same time or...can I?

Iceland. India, the Philippines. Turkey. Israel. Hungary. Italy. are places I dream of in day light. If you are going or you have been to these places, I'd love to share/hear stories.

I live in a 40-person co-op in the heart of San Francisco. You can get a feeling of what's it's like at ubuntusf.org. If we connect on the road, I'd be happy to show you my home and my reality and also around San Francisco.

If you speak Spanish or Italian and want to learn Chinese, I'd love to speak any of those languages with you! I don't speak any Arabic but I'd like to learn! I'd love to participate in rock climbing, mother earth hiking, west coast swing/salsa dancing, coffee tasting, vodka tasting, burn the kitchen cooking, concert going, movie watching. I love films and photography. I've met great couch surfers all over the world and I'm excited to meet some more!

Enjoy life, live the adventure!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I believe that strangers are friends you haven't met. I believe that the world wouldn't mind more love and less wary. I adore couchsurfing and its spirit. I've met wonderful people here and won't stop meeting more.

Interests

photography is how I see the world and rock climbing I just can't get enough of
learning about people and about myself;
singing in the rain, in the gym, in the ballroom;
ballroom dancing; music; trying to play music on my guitar.
reading; writing

• arts
• writing
• singing
• photography
• concerts
• coachella
• dancing
• salsa dancing
• ballroom dancing
• dining
• cooking
• indian food
• coffee
• mexican food
• yoga
• movies
• reading
• juggling
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• rock climbing
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

I love movies.
I love documentaries on cultures, music, nature.
I love musicals and opera.

Films:

1920-1970

The Graduate (1967)

1971-2000

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

Before Sunrise (1995)

La vita è bella (1997)

Titanic (1997)

American Beauty (1999)

2001-2010

La meglio gioventu (2003)

Les Choristes (2004)

Before Sunset (2004)

Once (2006)

2011-2014

Anna Karenina (2012)

Before midnight (2013)

Her (2013)

Blue Jasmine (2013)

无人区/No Man's Land (2013)

Animated films:

Finding Nemo

Despicable Me

The Croods (2013)

Musicals:

Les Mes

Chicago

Mamma Mia!

Documentaries:

Hubble

Touching the Void

Opera Italia with Antonio Pappano

Seven

Lonely Planet Roads Less Travelled

Italy Unpacked

Discovery Atlas

Chinese Architecture

China in a Bite

Music:

Bob Moses, 1975, Shamir, SIA, Chopin, Beethoven, Kreisler, Rachmaninoff;
Tango, samba, blues, swing, jazz.

Books:

Into the Wild

Let's take the long way home

林语堂/Lin Yutang

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

+ traveled in a monster van down the Pacific coastline from the lovely San Francisco, into the wild deserts of Mojave, red canyons of the south west in snow, and landed into the deep snow at Tahoe
+ danced to salsa tunes on ukulele under the stars on a dried salt lake in Mexico

Teach, Learn, Share

I enjoy learning and teaching languages and I would always want to learn more about photography, ukulele/guitar and dance. More specifically, I want to do before I die:
- to make a fool of myself more often
- Cook/eat Indian food, Turkish food, Mexican food...FOOD!!!
- Go on trapeze for once
- play hang drum or some other kind of percussion
- parkour, yoga (anything involves using my body in amazing ways)
- do my first handstand

Countries I’ve Visited

Mexico, New Zealand, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, United States