hello, my name is Charlene Jin (金孝容). here are a few things about me:

· 21-year old female.
· undergraduate student of economics at UC Berkeley.
· born and raised in Taiwan (ROC).
· daydreamer.
· i cannot host male persons in my home because it is a female-only household. there will be no exceptions to this rule.
· as a heterosexual female, there is a high chance that i will turn down requests to hang out from males. i am committed to an exclusive romantic relationship and will avoid any encounters that disrespects my boyfriend. nonetheless, i still very much enjoy making new friends with males who take genuine interest in my personality and human character — not my feminine gender.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

· make new friends.
· explore new worlds.
· go wandering for a year because—just for once in my life—i want to have neither purpose nor direction.

***apologies, i won't be able to host recently because i'm away from home up till mid-October.***

Interests

• writing
• poetry
• singing
• folklore
• photography
• film making
• cooking
• baking
• reading
• camping
• earth science
• economics
• geography
• history
• journalism
• philosophy
• beach
• scouting
• debate
• the cosmos

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS*
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Book Thief
Life 3.0
Free to Choose
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Dream of the Red Chamber

MUSIC*
Sóley
Слот
Desert Chang
The Moon and the Nightspirit
Yann Tiersen
Nephew
Mayday
Pale Honey
Yann Tiersen
Mélanie Pain
Cécile Corbel

MOVIES*
Good Bye, Lenin!
Forrest Gump
Wolf Totem
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

· lasted 14 days without taking a bath.
· stayed silent and patiently waited for my boyfriend to stop eating animals — all by his own volition.
· climbed to the top of the tallest mountain in Taiwan.
· held onto the understanding that fairies do exist in nature.
· was the first person in my exam group to get a camp fire started when i was testing for my third-level girl scout badge. the fire starter i made was so beautifully carved that the examiners took a photograph of it for future reference. (ahh, all the things i used to know how to do back when i was 15 years old...missed those days.)

What I Can Share with Hosts

i can do household chores, cook Californian food, cook Chinese food, do English-Chinese translation, discuss Chinese language and culture, discuss economics.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Nepal, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Singapore, Taiwan, United States