SAYA? WHO?

HELLO! 大家好！HOLA A TODOS! CIAO! 안녕하세요! こんにちは!

On liners call me Saya. In China, my auntie gave me the name 赵法书，to highlight the kinship and skinship I built in one year with my host family, and because I was a pretty-damn buddhist fan in love with chinese calligraphy. My Korean friends call me 금만기.  I don't have a japanese name yet, but I guess my mates will give me one as soon as they'll find out, and then my identity crisis will be complete. 

I was born in a little little little village, lost in the middle of northern Italy. Well, not THAT little, but enough to be insanely narrow-minded, ready to make anyone feel an outsider. My life as a misfit started back in 2009, when I made the biggest and most reckless decision of my yet young life: I spent a year abroad with AFS in China. From the day of my departure, my perspectives changed out of the blue.

Me & fellow Tianjinese exchange students. 加油！

I became an AFS volunteer, multiple time host sister, and there isn't a day in which I regret choosing this international prospective for my life. Being a misfit enriches me, thanks to the dozens of people I meet and their different ideas, cultures and habits. 

Atm I'm a BA Chinese & IR student at the University of Leeds, and thank God in September I'm going back to China. Hey, I'm a desperate case of Yellow Fever, we found out nothing can heal me. This time it'll be Shanghai, and nothing will stop me from finally experiencing Korea and Japan as well. Back to Asia, finally. Where I feel less of a misfit. 

I love art, I love people, I love sarcasm. When I was born my parents had the AMAZING idea to call me Happiness, and I have lived with this burden ever since. Well, not much of a burden. Thanks to that I take things pretty lightly, a virtue or a vice that helped me figure out China first, Englishmen after, and still kicks me back to Asia. I obviously didn't have enough the first time. Or maybe I just have some spare time. 

そうか!!!