Ella often says in her articles, that is, "I do what I want because I am young". Youth is the greatest capital in life. When she graduated from college that year, she was once lost because of the failure of applying for the University of Hong Kong. In the end, the way she got out of the confusion was brave, that is, traveling alone. Even more incredible, her way of traveling is-couch surfing. This kind of travel mode is very popular abroad, but it is not so mature at home.
As the name implies, a couch surfer is "sleeping on someone else's couch". This is superficial, but it doesn't necessarily mean sleeping on the sofa. If the owner has a spare room or bed, the "couch surfer" will sleep comfortably. If you meet a more hospitable host, you will even take you to visit scenic spots and taste local food. Of course, while enjoying these, you should also contribute your "sofa" in exchange. This very human way of traveling makes Ella feel that maybe such a trip will be more meaningful and not so lonely. More importantly, she believes that the sofa trip will make her experience more stories, meet more people and things, and make this trip more meaningful.
This book tells the story of her traveling around the world for 6 days by sofa after graduation, walking through 3 countries alone, and meeting people and things. I read the words she wrote, and my heart seemed to follow her words and began to travel around the world. At the same time, I also had many scary, warm and moving experiences. Her inner fear when she first became a couch potato, her first hitchhiking trip with two men, her first death, her eyes falling from loneliness at Vienna Railway Station, her kiss with Korean boys in Prague, her dating with the CEO of Paris, the sadness of working in the United States for four months, the stories of American couples, her free hugs with strangers at the end of the world, her marriage to the world in front of the Egyptian pyramids, and so on. She recorded her true feelings in the most authentic words. This book is the most wonderful connection point of this book, because she met different people in different countries and wrote different stories. Every time she goes to a country, she can really feel the people and things she probably meets here.
The most real feeling after reading this book is that you will meet people who you are. I once asked her, aren't you afraid to live with a strange sofa owner? She said that she had spent a lot of time in choosing a sofa owner before, and then faced with the help of the sofa owner, she tried her best to give back and cook a Chinese dinner for the sofa owner. The sofa owner would also invite his friends to come and enjoy a rare China meal, and at the same time, she would bring a Chinese knot with China characteristics to each sofa owner. The sofa owner will be very happy to accept it, and at the same time, he will be very happy in his heart, because this trip is a real embrace of the world, and he will meet his own story on the road and leave eternal memories.
In ancient times, Xu Xiake was surrounded by mountains and rivers, but only confined to China. Now a woman named Ella Sanhei has married the world. In the future, she will embrace the world without reservation, continue to go around the world, meet more interesting people, warm people and warm things, enrich her life and share stories from every corner of the world.
Note: This is my fan's book review of my new book "In this way, I slept on the sofa all over the world", and it has been authorized.
Ella Sanhei
a couch potato traveler who travels around the world for 6 days
a travel writer.