CURRENT MISSION

try to position myself in a comfortable zone between dream and reality

ABOUT ME

In the past few years I set some major steps in my life, like working for Chinese National Geographic as a photo editor, like defocicing my life more to nature studies, and like eventually returning to my beloved high school as a teacher (though still look like a student...).

Below is what I wrote in 2010 which has not been motified for years but is still partially practical for now. This really makes me think how slow I would grow up or how stubborn I am about life philosophy...... Nah.

In my 18th I went out of China for the very first time, for a college life across the Atlantic Ocean. The college life brought me the best ever gift - one year in Rome, plus a luxurious amount of vacations, which extended "college life" to LIFE. It's the time my true wild self got awakened to its 100%. I travel, and travel alone. You know there's a happiness called FREEDOM? You know there's a beautiful emotion called loneliness?

I grow up talking about dreams. The wise elders told me when I was 7, 12, 16, and 18 that I would have more practical prospect of my life when i grow up. Now I'm 21. Thanks god I still dream. And I still dream about a timber house in the mountains and a deer gazing through my window. They are gonna know how practical I am when those things come true.

Once my obsession towards Norway was out of control. Back then I had no clue why. It was the feeling when finally set my feet on the Scandinavian land; it was like a wolf sensing the call of the wild. Standing under a night sky with aurora and the glory of stars, I thought loudly, "I'm BACK."
I called it destiny. And it still is. It is-as what I found under the sharp sunshine of patagonia and against the harsh highland wind in Tibet -the destiny to be drove to the purest, nude nature.

I'm hardly too tired to set myself on the way, but if ever, a good book comforts me always well.

I try hard not to be a tourist. but a traveller. Tourists pass by wherever they go, while a traveller belong to whichever place he goes. Tourists hurry from one point to another, while a travellers's life and interest are all along the way.

PHILOSOPHY

Am I scared to travel so faraway from home and to a different society with different culture and languages?
Yes I am.But you know what? All unknown things intimidate people, and the best way to make them not that scary is to know them.

"Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art"

Expect and hope that a quarter of your projects fail. If not, you're not taking enough risks. --Adam Smith

I see the world with pessimistic eyes, therefore I always see happiness glimsing around.

Don't tell me to stop dreaming! As long as I don't wake up the world is perfect...

Even if I have the chance to get deceived, I choose to trust the world.

When life sucks, smile and you win.

"Border control and the visa system is a humiliation of the FREEDOM of human right. Anyway, this is THE WORLD we live in!" --Marina, my dear host in Moscow, 05,2010

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm always ready to be a smiley guest. I'm always ready to be an adventurous traveller. I'm always ready to tell stories. I'm always ready to listen to the world.

I long to see hearts of people getting closer - while the density of population is grows, the communication of souls gets scarcer. Sad fact.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

"I love journey not widely taken, I love people not acquaintant before."

keep finding new road, keep meeting new great people.

Interests

BLIND WANDERER: I enjoy heading out with no plan and let random popping-up ideas direct me hear and there. Sharing life stories with encounters along the journey is the most fantastic way to get a taste of culture.

Photography used to be one theme of my life, and when I decide to put it away and reach to something else, it is already a tag too tightly on me and push me to go on... No, I'm not a photographer,
I picture-draw the emotion-colored reflection of the world in my mind.

PEN TALKS: There is always stories unable to tell through a picture. As a storyteller I'm inspired by the touch of a pentip on a piece of paper like magic.

BASIS FÜR ALLES: Nietzsche，Wagner and Baroque arts are the sparkles that lighten up my life. They occurred to me in different occasions and each aroused some sort of passion. And the passions, somehow, harmonize on one single tune. I'm dying to find the score of it.

PEOPLE WATCHING: I love sitting in a quite corner of a cafe, watching people come and go, and tellimg stories about their life in my mind.People on the earth are like atoms in a space, they collide randomly with each other and thus produce new substance -and that's how the world was created.

INTERNAL CONNECTION: I'm obsessed to find the inner relation of things. Or you can say that's a try not only to see the world but to see THROUGH the world. A hard try, but interesting one.

• birds
• arts
• culture
• books
• singing
• architecture
• photography
• dining
• walking
• traveling
• magic
• music
• hiking
• camping
• track and field
• emergency services
• history
• languages
• logic
• hitchhiking
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I stick on the classical side of almost everything. Things remaining after the erosion of time would be of little chance to be bad.

New Age is the gift from god.
Yanni survives me from depression and stress for school works.
Chopin, Liszt and Vivaldi cheer me up in bad weather.
A well-presented Opera is the best dessert in a dark night.

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I enjoy Maugham's satire of human characters, and also Dostoevsky‘s sympathy to people. I feel suffocated by the powerful words from Zweig and emphasized by poems from Neruda. I smile with Austin and weep to Storm. Hrabal hits me like a hammer right on my chest, and Nietzsche, he sets flame in my worst nightmares but I'm desperately attracted to every line of his.
But finally Hermann Heisse saves the world.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1. The wild stars in the Grand Canyon night sky, which made me began to understand the epitaph of Immanuel Kant “Zwei Dinge erfüllen das Gemüt mit immer neuer und zunehmender Bewunderung und Ehrfurcht, je öfter und anhaltender sich das Nachdenken damit beschäftigt: Der bestirnte Himmel über mir, und das moralische Gesetz in mir.”

2. The mountains lining up the Tibet Plateau and the headstream of Yangtze River and Yellow river, the ultimate resource of my culture.

3. I noticed that birds in northern Indiana, United States, wake up around 3:45am every day:) I used to stay up very late in school and every 3:45 birds begin to sing outside the window in the still dark morning air. It's amazing. I then developed the habit of turning off my music around 3:45am and open all the windows in the studio, to enjoy the music of nature.

4. I own 4 cats and my life is dedicated to them.

5. I saw a old tramp couple sitting in a porch along the street in Copenhagen at new year's eve. Each of them had a McDonald's hamburger in front, which might be the cheapest food in that expensive city. The woman was holding a rose and smiled with bright happiness. I watched from across the street and just wanted to smile.

6. I travelled home by land after a year studying in Rome. The trip took me 37 days, which covered 10 time zones with an approximate 19,000km. I got to step into Norway for my 3rd time in the past year and finally reached the lands farther north to 70 degree N. Border－crossing from norway into Russia took place at the northwest corner of the country and it took 25 days for the entire siberia to unfold in front of my eyes.

7. Hiking alone thru the W line of Paine National Park and the Glacias Purrito Moreno with a newly twisted ankle...

8. Staying in a traveler's "refugee camp" in Chile and walking with some help from the police and army into Argentina because of a major strike and road blockage.

9. Hitchhiking alone all the way from Sichuan Province into Tibet via the National Route G318 and eventually to the base camp of Mt.Qomolangma.

10. Waiting whole night outside against the extreme chill and wind at the base camp and having got to see the Milky Way rising above the top of the world.

11. There are always more amazing things tomorrow.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teaching and learning are both sharing, aren't they?

I'm generally good at talking, but be careful—

I love to talk about history, but never date events correctly;
I love to talk about music, but hardly recognize tunes successfully;
I love to talk about philosophy, but come up with bold conclusions easily;
I love to talk about architecture, but might criticize modern works too harshly
...

I love to talk about languages... I mean, Love. it would seem that I know a bit of every language but not really fluent in any...

My culture background seems a hodgepodge; my rational self gets too cold and my emotional self too furious; my stories are mostly turned around disasters that I use to tease myself; my opinions might be too idealistic, but I will be frank and straightforward, and never boring.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malaysia, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Italy, United States

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