by Tracy You
Stephanie Feng?s (???) first job as a passenger photographer took her aboard the 90,000-ton cruise liner Serenade of the Seas. It?s not a normal job for a journalism graduate but Feng reckons her six months' working around the eastern Caribbean was a life-defining experience.
?I watched ?Where the hell is Matt?? in 2008 and my friends were joking that we could make a ?Where the hell is Stephanie?? video, and that?s what got me into applying for the position,? explains the 28-year-old graduate of Newcastle University in England, who was born to a traditional Shanghainese family.
?The trip completely changed the angle I viewed the world with. I became more curious about the unknown and I came to realize that traveling is the most important hobby in my life.?
She Loves Traveling co-founders Joyce Yang (left) and Stephanie Feng (right) visited Hamburg in 2010.
Feng, who has traveled to Germany, Thailand and 17 other countries, is typical of "Generation T" -- 20- and 30-something Chinese women whose life values are shifting away from their mothers' and grandmothers' (who may well have never ventured beyond the confines of their home town) thanks to the opportunities of outbound travel.
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