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Overview

  • 20 references 14 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English; learning Russian
  • 38, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • elementary school teacher
  • Indiana University
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 100% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Living one day at a time.

ABOUT ME

Never thought that I wanted to...
1) Work with children
2) Live in Kazakhstan
3) Stay with complete strangers
4) Be an expatriate in my motherland, the PRC
*LOVING LIFE*

PHILOSOPHY

I am a work in progress.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Have been blessed by the generosity of others, now I'm able to host!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

1) Trabzon, Turkey - Furkan
2) St. Petersburg - Emy
3) Clearwater - Ann
4) Salzburg - Michael and Claudia
5) Vienna - Patrick and Kathi
6) Prague - Honza
7) Prague - Arman
8) Washington Heights, NYC - Paulina
9) Queens, NYC - Wendy 2x
10) Uxbridge, London - Stacey
11) Paris - David and Emmanuelle 2x
12) Angers, France - Estelle
13) Dublin - Mayra and Andrea
14) Galway, Ireland - Andrea
15) Rome - Anna
16) Tel Aviv - Nogah
17) Chengdu - Marta and Matje
18) Helsinki ~ Vita and Mikko

Interests

beach-combing, staying alive, shopping, cooking, dancing, tennis, ice-skating

  • acting
  • dancing
  • dining
  • cooking
  • shopping
  • flowers
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Books - Harry Potter, Joy Luck Club
Music - almost anything
Movies - Amadeus, Bend it Like Beckham, the Descendants, Dave, Dark Knight trilogy, Some Like it Hot, 13 Going on 30, White Chicks, Crash, Sound of Music, Mean Girls, the Social Network, Star Wars, Bridget Jones Diary, the Queen, Blood Diamond

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Holding my baby brother right after his delivery.
Teaching the same student in two different countries.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm decent at tutoring people in beginning Mandarin.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Souvs, food, laughter, thoughts, and flowers

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Armenia, Belarus, China, Georgia, Kazakhstan, United States

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