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  • 61 references 44 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English, Taiwanese; learning Spanish
  • 40, Female
  • Member since 2007
  • Endless learner
  • Msc Conservation & Biodiversity
  • From Taiwan
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Finding a natural peaceful place to live for the rest of my life. Any suggestions?

ABOUT ME

If I were food I would be chocolate, If I were an animal I would be a bird, If I were a season I would be autumn, If I were a tree I would be a birch, If I were a color I would be blue, If I were a song I would be "Praan" (Stream of Life), If I were a place I would be wherever my sweetheart is, If I were a religion I would be cosmopolitanism, If I were a facial expresion I would be a smile...

I am an nature lover. Appreciate the little things in life . Hope to learn and experience as many things as I can, as life is too short and the world is too big. Believing everything is possible.

Two truths and a lie, see if you can guess it right ;)
1. I was nearly eaten by an alligator in the Amazonia.
2. I traveled to more than 100 countries.
3. I prefer chocolate rather than cheese

PHILOSOPHY

I think that you have to know your position in the world in relation to the many great things surround us, Be open minded and brave to embrace the great things. Only then will you be able to choose your direction and get the most out of your life.

Living for now, not always for the past or the future. Try to never regret about what you have chosen.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Met quite some cool and interesting people who I would never get chances to meet if I did not sigh up CS. I appreciate for the friendship I have found here.

Interests

travel, dance(especially Salsa), nature, permaculture, photography, reading, music, movies, hiking, walking, ecological conservation, yoga, literature, sociology, working in the commuity....too many things!

  • animals
  • culture
  • literature
  • photography
  • yoga
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • hiking
  • skydiving
  • paragliding
  • psychology
  • sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Music--Soul, folk, jazz, rock, country, classical, indie, world music...

Chan Chan, eagles, queen, oasis, pulp, coldplay, Neil Young, sigur rose, Baby shambles, Louis Armstrong, Vivaldi, Caetano Veloso---Cucurrucucu Paloma, Joe Hisaishi ....

Book--biographies, novels, poems, popular science...

Wislawa Szymborska, David Attenborough, Bohumil Hrabal--Too Loud a Solitude, Paulo Coelho--By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, George Orwell --1984, Birdsong, J.D.Salinger--The Catcher in the Rye, Erich Maria Remarque, Milan Kundera --The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Michael J. Sandel--What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, Justice, the call of the Wild ...

Movie--every kind of movie apart from horror..

Miyazaki Hayao みやざき はやお, Ararat, The way home, Lost in tranlation, Trainspotting, 無米樂 Let it be, Shunji Iwai--Love Letter, Francois Truffaut --The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Buena Vista Social Club, Into The Wild, intouchables, the better
life, La vita

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

https://matadornetwork.com/travel-map/9571d1200411a27645d003b024f99068-1550310951

Too many! I have been lucky enough to discover a bit the beauty of the world(about 100 countries so far ), and to explore diverse lifestyle and culture.

Had a dinner with a Living Buddha and other lamas in China! Went Skydiving paragliding and surfing in New zeland; Make a friend with a tiger ranger who use to be a hunter in India; Witnessed the Hagan Warriors holding machete fighting each other in Papua New Guinea; Attended a costly funeral of a royal family; Were totally moved by the pure beauty of Iguazu and Vitoria Falls; Snorkeled with a whale shark in S Africa! while also saw disparity between rich and poor there..; being treated as a queen in Indonesia; Survived from the urine and faece attack of a female orangutan! Saw pink dolphin and ate the BBQ of a whole crocodile in the Amazonia; Was proposed by a Maasai in Kenya....

Teach, Learn, Share

Life is about sharing :) Don't think I can teach you something, but we can share our experiences to each other.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

New Zealand, Spain, Taiwan, United Kingdom

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