Hong Kong

Ok, so “later today” meant more like two weeks from now…oops! I am really bad at this blog keeping thing. I should be writing in a personal journal so I can remember everything between blogs. I guess I’ve just been preoccupied with other things, and I keep forgetting to blog. I tell myself I’ll do it later…I’ll do it later…I’ll do it tomorrow…I’ll do it while in transit in India…yea no…Right then, writing about Hong Kong now, but I’m in India…yup.

The port – was – a – MALL! No joke; it was literally a mall. A HUGE mall. The best thing about the mall: FREE WI-FI!!! Needless to say I took advantage of that on day one. I also walked around Harbor City (that’s what the mall/surrounding area was called) with a friend for a while, and then we found a park and walked around there. Basically, we just explored the city all day. To be honest, the days I spent in Hong Kong are all blurred together. We went to a few markets (lady’s market, fish market, bird market, flower market, night market, etc.), walked around (a lot), checked out Hong Kong Island (which was more of a business area), and ate some pretty good food (not going to lie – I am guilty of eating McDonalds in a foreign country – I was curious to see if it was the same at the United States, and it was not!). On the last day in port, we went to a restaurant called The Modern Toilet on Hong Kong Island. All of the seats are toilet bowls, and they serve your food in dishes that look like toilets, urinals, sinks, etc.; it was quite funny. While there, we heard a little Chinese girl singing the ABC’s (yes, in English) – so cute! We also saw the seemingly never-ending series of escalators, and we rode them all the way to the top! (so it wasn’t really never-ending, but it sure as hell felt like it was going to be) On the night before that, I went to SoHo with a few people. We found an ice bar; it was cold (obviously). It was an interesting experience I guess. There were Semester at Sea students EVERYWHERE – well, what do you expect? It was pretty much just a block of bars crowded with a bunch of college kids…need I say more? Oh, and just so you all know – NO, I did NOT get “wasted” with my peers in SoHo. Something else that was interesting about Hong Kong Island was that there were not many sidewalks (at least in some areas there weren’t any). You have to walk on a system of skywalk things above the streets – it was pretty cool.

That is about it for Hong Kong – like I said, the biggest portion of my time there was spent simply walking around the city with friends and taking it all in.

-KW-