The various trips have returned and we were all on campus today to get ready for class tomorrow. But first things first—it was Jessalyn’s birthday, so a group of us went out to the Pizza Hut in the Town Centre (someone had cravings?).
This is a Pizza Hut unlike one you’ve ever seen. It looked to one girl more like a Cheesecake Factory, and it had a dessert menu nearly as big. Of course, there were pizzas: “regular” a hair bigger than a US Personal Pan, and a “large” which could comfortably serve two people.
The big special, advertised in front, is a pizza with salmon and cream cheese in the crust. We didn’t get the special.
We did, however, get cheese, veggie, pepperoni, Hawaiian (which comes with chicken, not just ham, in these parts), and meat lovers’ pies. And for a mere fifteen—sorry, fifty (who made those two prices sound alike in English? They’re making a killing here) HKD we got a Kodak moment (I’m hoping to steal pictures soon): the entire staff gathered around, singing Happy Birthday (sadly, in English). They also distributed the ice cream cake (itself distributed in dry ice—the cake-makers don’t fool around) a couple people had sneaked off to buy earlier.
Later, after playing the “how many foreigners does it take to cross the street?” game, we made it to a bar that some of the others had discovered previously. The Argentina v. Brazil game was on, which was a nice touch. The seating area was pretty good, the mandatory couvert charge (mandatory snacks, 50 HKD) not so nice. There we stayed (with two of our group bringing mattress pads picked up at Japan Home in the mall along with them) until just too late to catch a minibus or Light Rail back (0030), landing us in the green NT taxis I’d so far avoided.
And after the small hike back from Fu Tai, we’re back and I have class in a bit over eight hours. I’ve set my alarm for quite a bit too early. My roommate, of course, shows no signs of being close to sleep. Should be interesting. After class I should be able to pick up my real Lingnan ID, and then …? Probably more law application work. We’ll see. It feels a bit like the end of RA training, right down to moving in two weeks early. I’m exhausted from the past two weeks of running around, and now I have to handle classes too?
Expect a report on POL 301 (Global Environmental Politics) in the near future.
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