The Past Few Days...

So my Finish roommate and classmate from NC State went to Harbor City and decided to check out the view! It was surreal.. and foggy, I'm assuming from the pollution of 7 million people.


We found Jackie Chan's mark on the Star Walk! There was also a life size model of Bruce Lee.. but it was surrounded by too many other tourists for us to get a picture.


While we were there.. we decided to stay for the light show, which happens every night at 8:00. Basically several buildings across the river flash some decorative lights to the beat of music playing through speakers on the star walk. It was pretty neat, I think we may go see it again when it gets warmer.

If you ever wanted to know what some of the cemeteries look like in Hong Kong.. here's a picture! I thought it'd be interesting to see one so I agreed to help my friend find her grandmother's grave with my roommate. This is just a small part.. there's actually a whole mountain of tombstones behind these. Also, my friend informed me that often times in HK they move graves.. and that's why she needed help looking for it. Unfortunately we arrived past grave visiting hours... so the search has been delayed for another day.

This is Brigitte, my textiles classmate whose on the same exchange program as me from NC State! We were in shock when we saw how chic the Textiles Department looked.. so we took a picture :)


Thai dinner I had with Jenny at a shopping mall in Sha Tin! About... 13USD between us.. pretty good I'd say.

Jenny heading the other way at the subway station.. :)


Some of the knitting machines at my Knitwear design lab. I've been to 3 classes so far. One thing I'm going to have to work on for these classes is my attention span. Each class is 3 hours long... some teachers will give a 5-10 minute break.. but it doesn't really make much of a difference. However, the classes so far have been pretty interesting and I'm excited about what I'll learning and the different projects I'll be doing.

So I still don't quite understand what it was they were doing, but anyways this is a picture of the "Proposed 7th Xuemin Hall association." Basically each floor of the residence halls (there are a total of I think 17 floors for residents) has its own "Proposed Hall Association" (i don't know why they use the word proposed..) which plans events exclusively for the residents on their floor and sometimes with partnering floors. Well this picture is the Hall Association for my floor, called Xuemin (each floor has a different name) at their "open consultation night" where other "proposed hall associations" came and asked questions about their events.. however, it was mostly in Cantonese so I didn't quite understand what they were talking about. But they went around to each room the night before at a strange hour of 11pm encouraging everyone to attend the consultation for support. So my Finland roommate and I went. Some future events in store for our floor include a semester dinner, sweet soup gathering, bowling, a fruit gathering, a beauty workshop (as I mentioned before, we're one of two all girl floors), and a mandatory High Table Dinner. I was told all residents are expected to attend the High Table Dinner and in the correct formal attire. So.. looking forward to that, it should be interesting!

oh i forgot to add... the "open consultation night" was from 9pm-9am.. with 15 min breaks every 3 hours. yes, they stayed up all through the night! and yes, there was class the next day.