Those of you who know me knows that I like to cook. This has not been particularly easy here seeing as we have no idea what half of the stuff in the supermarkets or markets are and therefore we don´t kjnow how to prepare it either. So we have to buy everything in advance or go out to eat in the various cantines that they have on campus. This is of course pretty nice because its easy and you don´t pay more than 23 dollars (16kr?) max for a big dinner.
This has only one drawback as far aas I am concerned. If you are hungry after eight o`clock or if you come home late and didn´t have time to eat or forgot it - your only alternativ is.... microwave food from seven/eleven.... Now this is not ordinary food. As if its not bad enough that it is, in fact microwave food, they put all sorts of things in the micro here.... (which you find out as soon as you open up the micro door in the kitchen at the dorm) They even have dumplings that you can reheat.. yuk.
Today I ate that. It was warm. it was eadable. I not hungry anymore. I am once again reminded that I should remember to buy food earlier in the evening. Or have a stock at home. Just in case. So, thank you Tommy for the noodles :P They will come in handy. =)
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Busy week - part 4
Monday – I woke up at four in the afternoon. Got up. Had to go out the door again to see the fireworks in Central! Met so many other exchange students at the kcr that it was impossible to keep the whole group together through the entire evening due to the 1million other people who also wanted to get the best view of the fireworks that evening. The view was AMAZING and it lasted for 25minutes. Unfortunatley we didn´t get a panoramic view to the amount of people around us, but it was a lot of fun just listening to the reactions of the crowd - ooohhh, aaahhh, hihihi and general cheering when the fireworks were BIG! It covered the whole sky infront of us and sounded loudly behind us from the echoing of the building!! We took a couple of pics, but didn´t want to spoil the experience with only trying to capture the perfect kodac moment - it would never have been better than the visual images I have vividly kept in my mind! Here are some pics of what the sky looked like - they capture some of the mood at least if not the actual fireworks. (Too bad I couldn´t get a picture of the smiley faces - that would have been funny!)
Busy week - part 3
Saturday - I went jogging before we left for Lantau to visit Julie! She lives in Discovery Bay, which she had told us was a resort filled with westerners, but when we got of the ferry both Camilla and I were in shock. We felt like we had come to a southern vacation PARADISE and not just taken a 25 minutes ferry ride from one of the busiest places on earth! It was very resort like, but still nice. Julie is not too happy about all the families with kids who are living there, but with all the other bonuses you get by living there I don´t think it is too bad still. =) We ate dinner and had a drink at one of the newly built restaurants by the sea and relaxed for a couple of hours with Sameer, Smithy (brother and sister and friends of Julie) and Christina (Julie´s room mate). They all live here in paradise and they are all very friendly beautiful people! =) We couldn´t and didn´t want to stay up too late because we were going hiking the next day, but we still managed to sit at one of the tables in the central open places and have a beer untill one in the morning.
Jungle feeling at the very beginning of our hiking trail
Sweaty at the top of the hill!
Waterfalls and dragon pools.
This was the view we left behind - IFC Tower on HK Island
Sunday - We got going for our hiking trip at around one on Sunday, met with Sameer and Smithy and started walking. The landscape is truly amazing in this area with palms, hills, beaches, waterfalls and so on. We walked for about two or three hours and got nice and sweaty since it has suddenly become really humid in HK lately and of course, since we walked up a hillside (I am not even going to try to make you believe that I am in a great shape ;) ). The great parade of Chinese New Year started at eight in central so we needed to get back in order to have the time to shower, get changed and then take the ferry back to Tsim Sha Tsui. We had heard that it would be hard finding places along the parade route so we wanted to be early so that we´d get good seats.. We waited for two hours before it actually started.. Think one of the wagons caught fire and that´s why it was delayed because there was this sudden rush of fire trucks and photographers running to the direction of the parades beginning. Anyway, it was okay, lots of sweet kids in cute costumes, talented folks and cool wagons! Went to a dinner place called Knutsford and met around twenty other exchange students and had a great Vietnamese/thai dinner, a nice cold beer and a sit!!! My feet were so tired by then!
Classic Chinese poster that is put up EVERYWHERE for good luck during Chinese Lunar New Year
Fun red things you could hit together to make noise and hit eachother over the head with during the parade! A lot of fun - even for us semi grown ups..
Classic Chinese dragon at the parade.
Jungle feeling at the very beginning of our hiking trail
Sweaty at the top of the hill!
Waterfalls and dragon pools.
This was the view we left behind - IFC Tower on HK IslandSunday - We got going for our hiking trip at around one on Sunday, met with Sameer and Smithy and started walking. The landscape is truly amazing in this area with palms, hills, beaches, waterfalls and so on. We walked for about two or three hours and got nice and sweaty since it has suddenly become really humid in HK lately and of course, since we walked up a hillside (I am not even going to try to make you believe that I am in a great shape ;) ). The great parade of Chinese New Year started at eight in central so we needed to get back in order to have the time to shower, get changed and then take the ferry back to Tsim Sha Tsui. We had heard that it would be hard finding places along the parade route so we wanted to be early so that we´d get good seats.. We waited for two hours before it actually started.. Think one of the wagons caught fire and that´s why it was delayed because there was this sudden rush of fire trucks and photographers running to the direction of the parades beginning. Anyway, it was okay, lots of sweet kids in cute costumes, talented folks and cool wagons! Went to a dinner place called Knutsford and met around twenty other exchange students and had a great Vietnamese/thai dinner, a nice cold beer and a sit!!! My feet were so tired by then!
Classic Chinese poster that is put up EVERYWHERE for good luck during Chinese Lunar New Year
Fun red things you could hit together to make noise and hit eachother over the head with during the parade! A lot of fun - even for us semi grown ups..
Classic Chinese dragon at the parade.
Busy week!! part 2
Crowded in the streets!
Relaxed monkey dude - we got pretty close to this one!Friday - Monkey Mountain and Hong Kong World Carneval – Tom and I went to Monkey Mountain which lies half an hour from Sha Tin with bus. People say it is a great mountain trail as well, but we didn´t have the time or the equipment to go on a long hike this day. We just wanted to see the monkeys – and boy, did we not only see them - we were surrounded by them!! They were actually quite scary some of them, we accidentally came in between a mother and an infant and it screamed at us!! So we held close together and try not to look at them, walk towards them, stop or anything else that might provoke them. Plastic bags are the worst thing you can have with you, and luckily we knew that otherwise they come running towards you thinking you might feed them and they start pulling your clothes and stuff.. They´re only small macaques, but still.. Check out the two different macaque species that live in HK here and here. After a quick stop at KFC in Sha Tin we headed straight for the fair that is in town now at Admiralty – called the Hong Kong World Carnival. We had looked so much forward to this – it is brightly lit and clearly visible on HK Island and had been calling for us to go there and have fun for so long!! First thing we queued for was called G-force – a giant windmill like thing with two wings that put you through 2G!! It was the coolest thing I have ever been in and the upside down and high rise view we got at the HK skyline was definitely worth the 1,5 hours we had to wait to go for a ride!!!
The carneval with the surrounding building as the backgorund scenery - notice how they are decorated to celebrate the New Year.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Busy week!! part 1
Last week has been incredibly busy!!
Tuesday – uni pub. Walked home with Gaelle when the pub closed at one, but met so many people on our way home that we spent one and a half hours to walk the ten minute way it usually takes! =) Was a lot of fun, had many nice conversations! =)
Wednesday - The usual three hours lecture about movies was great this time as well! Next time we are having a presentation on the cultural differences between two movies! Went directly from school to the train station and met with Tom who needed to buy some stuff. Of course we ate our usual dinner at Cheung Chi before leaving. =) Tom has been talking about bamboo and kyrasin for a couple of weeks now, and I´ve been wondering what dangerous stuff he was up to. On Wednesday I found out. He can do really cool stuff with a stick on fire! =) Have some pics of it, though they are of poor mobile camera quality.
Tim, me and Fantasia spent two hours watching Tom doing fast and furious stuff that lit up in the dark! We even got to try for a little bit when the flames where are about to go out. The temperature has risen the last days as well, so it was a nice way of spending a couple of night hours outside in a t-shirt!
Thursday - Stanley market, flowermarket and party! Tom and I went to Stanley Market on the other side of HK Island. Takes one hour to get to Central from uni and another 30 minutes on a bus to Stanley Bay. It is a known and very touristy market, but they have some nice things and the place is definitely worth a visit just because of the scenery you pass on the bus ride to get there and to catch some of the atmosphere at the very market. Flower markets are traditional during Chinese New Year celebrations and so we had to visit one and chose the largest one in Causeway Bay. It was packed with people and they had one-way street signs at the whole area to avoid chaos. Chinese people are truly organised. Everyone walked the right way! Afterwards we had beers at seven eleven (only 6dollars for a can) and sim sim (sort of fish dim sum on a stick) from a street kitchen. Found a nice bar to sit in for a while as well! Afterwards, we went to Cavern to celebrate Louis´ birthday and every exchange student showed up and we had a blast! Got home at four..
Tuesday – uni pub. Walked home with Gaelle when the pub closed at one, but met so many people on our way home that we spent one and a half hours to walk the ten minute way it usually takes! =) Was a lot of fun, had many nice conversations! =)
Wednesday - The usual three hours lecture about movies was great this time as well! Next time we are having a presentation on the cultural differences between two movies! Went directly from school to the train station and met with Tom who needed to buy some stuff. Of course we ate our usual dinner at Cheung Chi before leaving. =) Tom has been talking about bamboo and kyrasin for a couple of weeks now, and I´ve been wondering what dangerous stuff he was up to. On Wednesday I found out. He can do really cool stuff with a stick on fire! =) Have some pics of it, though they are of poor mobile camera quality.
Tim, me and Fantasia spent two hours watching Tom doing fast and furious stuff that lit up in the dark! We even got to try for a little bit when the flames where are about to go out. The temperature has risen the last days as well, so it was a nice way of spending a couple of night hours outside in a t-shirt!
Thursday - Stanley market, flowermarket and party! Tom and I went to Stanley Market on the other side of HK Island. Takes one hour to get to Central from uni and another 30 minutes on a bus to Stanley Bay. It is a known and very touristy market, but they have some nice things and the place is definitely worth a visit just because of the scenery you pass on the bus ride to get there and to catch some of the atmosphere at the very market. Flower markets are traditional during Chinese New Year celebrations and so we had to visit one and chose the largest one in Causeway Bay. It was packed with people and they had one-way street signs at the whole area to avoid chaos. Chinese people are truly organised. Everyone walked the right way! Afterwards we had beers at seven eleven (only 6dollars for a can) and sim sim (sort of fish dim sum on a stick) from a street kitchen. Found a nice bar to sit in for a while as well! Afterwards, we went to Cavern to celebrate Louis´ birthday and every exchange student showed up and we had a blast! Got home at four..
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