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Managed to drop the Taiwan class.

Last afternoon offered some frustratingly aimless sightseeing in Central, but things got better when we settled into Lan Kwai Fong, drank a couple hilariously overpriced drinks, and got our dance on. It was probably frightening, but I don’t think anyone got away with any pictures or videos of me. The dumpling place we stumbled into earlier wasn’t bad either.

The student activities people here are worse than WVU Honors when it comes to flagrant abuse of e-mail. It’s worse when I can’t read half of it.

Mandarin class is funny in a sad way. I might learn a few words (mostly useless here) if I’m lucky. But it’s a nice exchange student hang-out too.

I guess I have a group of friends, more or less, to do things with here, which is nice. I think most of them are only staying for the semester, though. I need to get more pro-active about planning trips for myself on holidays etc… a travel partner, sadly, has not emerged, and I don’t want to be dragging along as part of a 15 person group. I was going to hit Macau tomorrow but the weather may stay poor.

I would like to do something on the long weekend afforded by National Day, 1st Oct., but everyone else in Hong Kong would like to do something at the same time. China destinations, of course, won’t be getting any cheaper that weekend (their National Day, Hong Kong not being a state of its own).