Hong Kong

We went downtown for dinner yesterday and ate at a little street restaurant. It was really good. I got fried noodles. It was funny because they didn’t speak English and we had to figure out what they were asking. Luckily they had an English menu before. We had to ask for chopsticks because they gave us forks first. I’m used to chopsticks now, though I’m still not very good at eating with them, but using a fork would be weird to me.

After that we went to the street market and walked around and some of us shopped. I don’t know if I’m ready to buy anything yet because I heard that they jack up the prices because it’s a tourist city. So we’ve been told that in Xiamen it will be cheaper. 

There is a common thing that a lot of the locals do is to buy umbrellas that are UV protectors. I’m thinking about getting one. Kind of like parasols. It’s really interesting how tall and thin their building are. It makes me feel like I come from a small town. This is a view from the field in the camp that we are staying at.

The white buildings in between are public housing and the pinkish ones are private. It’s really humid here, and almost constantly foggy or smoggy, probably both.

Here are some pictures that I haven’t shown you yet…

This is the classroom that we get while we are at the camp in Hong Kong. The classes that we are taking is just survival Chinese and some history about religions in China.

We ride the trains to get to downtown Kowloon and we go to the “Ladies Market” (which is that market that I showed you above) and the bigger section of the city.

There are lots of mountains around the city and TONS of greenery! I’m lovin’ it! It’s so beautiful, though it is rather wet outside all the time. It feels like we are in a sauna whenever we go outside.