Saturday, September 18, 2010

Clarabelle's Bio

Clarabelle Pong was born on July 19th, 1986 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.  When she was young, she followed her parents back to Asia.  She was raised in Hong Kong- a busy, energetic, metropolitan city in Asia.  Having live in the urban setting for half of her life, she spent most of the time between the concrete blocks and seldom have chance to get emerged into nature.  Because of this reason, she always enjoys going travel to places where she can have a close touch with the greenery.  She loves learning languages and different cultures as well.  Therefore after her high school education in Hong Kong, she went to Homberg/Efze, Germany for a year as a cultural exchange student.  Her year in Germany was fantastic, as she finally had chance to live in the countryside, explore to forest and feel the harmonious of nature.   Following by this exciting year in nature, she continued to pursue her study in California, USA.  In 2009, she received her bachelor degree in architecture from University of California at Berkeley.    Throughout her experience as an architecture student, she developed a strong interest in sustainable design and green building.  And her interest finally leads her to intern with the nature's architect- Dr. Eugene Tsui.  Her goal is to be an architect and design buildings good to our Earth.