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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese (Simplified), English; learning Spanish
  • 33, Female
  • Member since 2016
  • Engineer
  • MS at UCLA, BS at Purdue University
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

I'm a passionate engineer, technologist and martial artist currently work an live in Michigan, USA. I love meeting people and making friends from different background and culture. Great curiosity to explore unknown world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meet interesting people from all over the world! Also find someone can travel with and do fun stuff with.

Interests

I shoot, I fight, I hack. I love technology!

I enjoy making/hacking stuff, learning new technologies, martial art, shooting once a while, traveling when I have time, golfing (200% passion with 20% skill), most sports, random art (when i feel like to do it)

  • arts
  • culture
  • exercise
  • technology
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • sports
  • engineering
  • machine learning
  • blockchain
  • entrepeneurship

Music, Movies, and Books

TV shows: Game of Thrones, House of Cards. Big Bang Theory
Movies: Lords of Rings, The Shawshank Dedemption, Star Wars, Back to the Future, Braveheart.
Books: Harry Potter, Deep Learning, 50th Law of Power, Poor Dad Rich Dad,
Music: Hip-hop, R&B

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Solo backpack to three countries in Europe, which was the first time I used Couchsurfing. Traveling over 12hr (train -> bus -> another bus -> another bus) from Rome to a remote village in Arcidosso, Italy to keep my promise with a couchsurfer and then traveling another 12hr (bus -> wrong bus -> another bus ->another bus) to Florence. Got lost multiple times in rural Italy since I don't know any Italian and no one in the bus station know English or Chinese and.. there was no cell phone signal so even powerful Google couldn't help for a while. Randomly jumped on to a bus to find a place has cell phone service or someone can speak English and had an adventurous trip to destination. And a crazy night with locals in Arcidosso in the most beautiful and peaceful village I've been to made the experience so memorable.

Another memorable experience is car broken in in Roturua, New Zealand and lost almost all belongings including passport. After struggling between China and US embassy for almost a week I got enough document for me to travel back to China. So I end up going back to China to get my legal identity back. Then fly back to US 5 weeks later... in one piece..:)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach English and Chinese language to people not natively speaking those language...nor grow up with those language. I would like to learn a bit German and Spanish.
I can also teach maybe a bit martial art or how to exercise. I'm currently doing Brazilian Jujistu and Karate. And I know some Nunchakus and traditional Chinese Kongfu too.
I can also share my two sense for the life in engineerin world and my recent increasing interest in AI.
I'm always willing to learn more from other people though.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Fun conversations, fitness tips, workout motivations, tech related topics

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, United States

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