This weekend was a full one, so I’ll try to prune my flowery writing.
Saturday, Carry and Tim (both had exchanged at WVU from Lingnan last semester) went around Hong Kong Island with Jessalyn, Garrett, and I (this semester’s WVU exchange students) and Cassie, an honorary WVU student yesterday (and a Beloiter normally). We ate at a Vietnamese restaurant in Causeway Bay (no longer a bay). Then we went to the tacky tourist market of Stanley, where construction and haze obscured what natural beauty remains there.
None of the other exchange students had seen the Peak by night, so we went there next. Since I’ve been there an observation deck has been opened. We watched the 8:00 light show (not that exciting from that angle) and soaked in the views. From there we headed back to Central, where we discovered that Tim had not seen Lan Kwai Fong. We showed him its dubious merits for a couple hours before returning on the next-to-next-to-last train, a welcome improvement on the last time I was there.
Today, Jessalyn, Carolyn (Beloit too), and Cassie went to Causeway Bay to shop, and I tagged along (within a few floors of the Times Square mall, anyway) to make sure I was doing something. On our return J. and Cassie split off and Mike (yeah, Beloit…) and Alex (Germany by way of Scotland) joined a typical feast at the Golden Dragon Thai place, which is still making it hard for me to walk uphill.
A nightcap at Park n Shop (to stock up on cereal) and a minibus ride later, I’m back, ready to prepare some material for class tomorrow and get ready for the rest of tomorrow’s errands. Tomorrow I have to stop by an optical shop in Chung Fu to figure out what went wrong with my glasses there, pick up my passport (with Mainland visa) in Wan Chai, and get a suit fitting in TST. If I’m out late enough maybe I’ll stay and watch the light show from Kowloon.
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