1) Stephanie takes pride in her brother, Geoffrey, who won Australia's first Gold Medal in the World Mathematics Olympiads
2) Stephanie's brother did this only following giving up his official training to represent Australia in swimming in the Sydney Olympics
3) Stephanie's parents, who are Chinese and who both live in Hong Kong, actually met when studying their English and Aeronautic Engineering degrees in England
2) Stephanie's brother did this only following giving up his official training to represent Australia in swimming in the Sydney Olympics
3) Stephanie's parents, who are Chinese and who both live in Hong Kong, actually met when studying their English and Aeronautic Engineering degrees in England
4) Stephanie's mother has produced English educational TV programs in Hong Kong, taught Mandarin and Tai Chi in Australia and is also an Artist in her own time
5) While, Stephanie is Chinese, English is her first language and she does not read or write Chinese very well and only speaks a limited amount of Cantonese and Mandarin - she blames her childhood belief of stubbornness and her rebellious behaviour to not learn Chinese, when told by her parents she must do, for this
6) Stephanie grew up in a small town called Geelong, near Melbourne in Australia, a place not know by most, except some from Australia, or who has travelled around Australia
7) Stephanie has travelled to over 25 countries in the last 20 years of her life
8) Stephanie holds a British, Australian and the HK ID and passport to travel to China and has received several marriage proposals in exchange for them
9) Whilst Stephanie immigrated to Australia at the age of 5, she did not respond to her Chinese name due to her constant care under her family's Philippino helper at the time, who spoke English, and was sent to live with her grandma in order to learn Cantonese
10) Stephanie in fact learnt Mandarin at an International school, along with other students including, British, Scottish and Australians
11) Stephanie spent the first year after immigrating to Australia at the age of 5 crying every night. The psychiatrist said it was a disorder - in fact it was mere cultural shock and the fear created from being thrown into her own room on the other side of the MUCH larger Australian house to her parents, as compared to the tiny apartments of Hong Kong, and into a world that only spoke English
12) Stephanie forever chases her dreams and desires...and around the world for them. After returning to Hong Kong due to her fathers job at the age of 10, she had a great desire to return to Australia from her childhood memories and left home at 15 to go to go to boarding school in Australia. Wanting to take a gap, year, see her family and earn money at the same time, she did so, returning to Hong Kong to volunteer part-time with children with disabilities and earn money part-time as a Market Researcher. Wanting to study Psychology available only as a sole degree in Sydney, she ventured across the world to England, holding her British passport, to start afresh again at University. After gaining some graduate experience from a well-sought scheme at Barclaycard, she chased her dream of using her abilities to help others and quit to start her own business, CCC Travel
13) Stephanie loves arts and crafts as a hobby - this includes origami such as the classic paper cranes she folds and leaves behind for her couchsurfing hosts, the hentai sketches her partner finds embarrassing to show, and playful creations from materials
14) Stephanie used to hate being Chinese as a child and wished she was caucasian and that she did not have a Chinese name so as to fit in. Now she takes pride in her international background and has combined interest in her Chinese traditions and other cultures
15) Stephanie's real name is Stephanie - she has been asked many times by a few innocent and ignorant travellers what her real name is and who have insisted is can not be her REAL name. This is the name she is known by and she takes her Chinese name as her middle name
16) Stephanie's mother's real name is Philomena - while Stephanie still does not understand how this name came about in Chinese culture in that day and age, she likes it for it's uniqueness, unlike 'Stephanie Chu' that comes up with many hits if searched.
17) On this note, Stephanie actually knows another Stephanie Chu, who's father's name is also Stephen Chu and this other Stephanie is in fact the god-sister of her cousin so somewhat related. While this is much more unlikely with Chinese names due to the huge number of different characters and the unlikely combination of characters, Stephanie also has two cousins, one on either side of her family, with the same sounding (but not same written) names, one female and one male
19) Stephanie's family is rather large - compared with the 2 siblings of her English-Yugoslavian partner's parents, Stephanie mother was 1 of 6, and father, 1 of 5, most of whom have children.
20) Stephanie has watched, or rather not watched, her brother play underwater hockey, in Geelong, a sport she has not come across again so far in her life travels
6) Stephanie grew up in a small town called Geelong, near Melbourne in Australia, a place not know by most, except some from Australia, or who has travelled around Australia
7) Stephanie has travelled to over 25 countries in the last 20 years of her life
8) Stephanie holds a British, Australian and the HK ID and passport to travel to China and has received several marriage proposals in exchange for them
9) Whilst Stephanie immigrated to Australia at the age of 5, she did not respond to her Chinese name due to her constant care under her family's Philippino helper at the time, who spoke English, and was sent to live with her grandma in order to learn Cantonese
10) Stephanie in fact learnt Mandarin at an International school, along with other students including, British, Scottish and Australians
11) Stephanie spent the first year after immigrating to Australia at the age of 5 crying every night. The psychiatrist said it was a disorder - in fact it was mere cultural shock and the fear created from being thrown into her own room on the other side of the MUCH larger Australian house to her parents, as compared to the tiny apartments of Hong Kong, and into a world that only spoke English
12) Stephanie forever chases her dreams and desires...and around the world for them. After returning to Hong Kong due to her fathers job at the age of 10, she had a great desire to return to Australia from her childhood memories and left home at 15 to go to go to boarding school in Australia. Wanting to take a gap, year, see her family and earn money at the same time, she did so, returning to Hong Kong to volunteer part-time with children with disabilities and earn money part-time as a Market Researcher. Wanting to study Psychology available only as a sole degree in Sydney, she ventured across the world to England, holding her British passport, to start afresh again at University. After gaining some graduate experience from a well-sought scheme at Barclaycard, she chased her dream of using her abilities to help others and quit to start her own business, CCC Travel
13) Stephanie loves arts and crafts as a hobby - this includes origami such as the classic paper cranes she folds and leaves behind for her couchsurfing hosts, the hentai sketches her partner finds embarrassing to show, and playful creations from materials
14) Stephanie used to hate being Chinese as a child and wished she was caucasian and that she did not have a Chinese name so as to fit in. Now she takes pride in her international background and has combined interest in her Chinese traditions and other cultures
15) Stephanie's real name is Stephanie - she has been asked many times by a few innocent and ignorant travellers what her real name is and who have insisted is can not be her REAL name. This is the name she is known by and she takes her Chinese name as her middle name
16) Stephanie's mother's real name is Philomena - while Stephanie still does not understand how this name came about in Chinese culture in that day and age, she likes it for it's uniqueness, unlike 'Stephanie Chu' that comes up with many hits if searched.
17) On this note, Stephanie actually knows another Stephanie Chu, who's father's name is also Stephen Chu and this other Stephanie is in fact the god-sister of her cousin so somewhat related. While this is much more unlikely with Chinese names due to the huge number of different characters and the unlikely combination of characters, Stephanie also has two cousins, one on either side of her family, with the same sounding (but not same written) names, one female and one male
19) Stephanie's family is rather large - compared with the 2 siblings of her English-Yugoslavian partner's parents, Stephanie mother was 1 of 6, and father, 1 of 5, most of whom have children.
20) Stephanie has watched, or rather not watched, her brother play underwater hockey, in Geelong, a sport she has not come across again so far in her life travels
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