Please at least state my name in your request. My Chinese name is Yuan but I go by Zach. I don’t rly mind if a request is mass texted, but if you don't have the courtesy to address me by my name at least then I'm afraid I wouldn't be at all interested in hosting you.

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Hi everyone I'm Zach from China. I'm a senior at Stanford University majoring in media and film studies.

Being a human is weird. Trying to navigate human life is even weirder. I've been asking what's the point of life since I was 10 and I have a very strong suspicion that I'll keep asking that till I die. For me the only thing in life that can't be fabricated is human connections. And that's my best proximation of an answer to the question why I live. I'm a rather private and introverted person when you meet me for the first time. But when I become close to someone I value that friendship for life. I hate meaningless socializing and I rly value the quality of the bonds you make in life with people over the quantity. And the awesome thing about Couchsurfing is that I’ve hosted at least a few guests with whom I’ve become actual friends and we visited and saw each other quite a few times since.

To summarize my current situation in one sentence would be "I don't even have a pla" I wanna go and learn Spanish in Cuba. I wanna work on an alpaca farm in New Zealand. I wanna live in the Arctic for at least a few months. I wanna learn how to drift.

When I'm not too busy having an existential crisis, I love basketball, tennis and snowboarding. I'm a hardcore LeBron fan and nearly religious when it comes to that. I'm also a Nadal fan. I'm also crazy about outdoor activities and am always up for a road trip, a hiking trip or a camping trip. I like crazy and adrenaline-pumping adventures. I try to do extreme things while I still can. I heard that the part of your brain that's in charge of fear won't get fully developed till ur 25. And I just find that to be such a pity. I wanna be reckless forever.

I also love music. I was coerced to play the violin for 13 years when I was a kid but thank god I wasn't traumatized from it and now I still love music. I play the guitar and mostly I like to sing, both as an expressive and cathartic tool and just as a thing I like to do. I always put 200 % of my emotions into every single song I sing and it's REALLY TIRING :)

I'm super passionate about language learning. I speak Mandarin, English, French and a little bit of Russian. It's my dream and prob no. 2 life goal to be a polyglot.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm a very open-minded and curious person. I enjoy learning about different cultures. I love traveling! I believe it's a wonderful platform for people of disparate backgrounds to exchange and learn from each other. I've met so many inspiring people through Couchsurfing and it's really just a wonderful thing to just share, anything at all.

Interests

• hiking
• snowboarding
• basketball
• tennis

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Elohim, CHVRCHES, Slander and Chinese hip-hop ayyyyyyye check out "Gai" and "Cblock" on youtube
Movies: Trainspotting, Inglourious Basterds, Thelma and Louise, One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest, 500 Days of Summer, the Secret life of Walter Mitty... Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Wong Kar Wai
TV (honestly I think I watch more TV than I should.. but anyways): Rick and Morty, Bojack Horseman, Game of Thrones, Black Mirror, Parks and Rec(yes it's better than the Office imo), fleabag...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Jumping down a 10-meter cliff at the southernmost point in the U.S. !(on the Big Island of Hawaii)
-Bulletclimbing Mt. Fuji (8pm to 8am next morning non-stop, rly thought I was gonna die) to see the sunrise
-Hiking in Svalbard outside of the settlement area without any firearm
-I have a picke rick tattoo;)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you Mandarin, Rubik's Cube, boxing...
And I'm willing to try practically anything new at all if u don't mind teaching me.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Macao, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russian Federation, South Korea, Spain, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, France, United States