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Singapore, Yoga and Midterms

Hello all! It’s been quite some time (again) and I’m just going to give a little recap for the first couple weeks of October.  Much like the assignments for my classes in Hong Kong, I’m attempting to catch up on weeks of negligence and procrastination, so bear with me.  I’ll be going FIFO-style, so here we are back in time.

Last post I ended with the holidays among the Jewish community of Hong Kong.  October began much the same way, celebrating Sukkot in the middle of the city, with the only sukkot hosted by Chabad and Ohel Leah, the main shuls of Hong Kong.  The holidays were wonderful and my class schedule agreed with me, as I don’t have class on Tuesdays and I was able to miss several weeks without much consequence.

 

SINGAPORE

Immediately following the end of the holiday, I again booked an impromptu trip – this time to Singapore, a country famous for its draconian littering laws.   Continue reading

ohhhh, we’re half-halfway there…

So I’ve now officially been living in Hong Kong for a month.  What a strange thing to say; but the strangest part of this is that although I’ve been at City U(niversity of Hong Kong for the uninitiated) for longer than the Greco-Turkish War and Britney’s marriage to Jason Alexander – no, not that Jason Alexander – combined (30 days and 55 hours, respectively) and I’ve had the opportunity to have some amazing experiences already, it still feels as though I’ve just gotten here and that I haven’t really done anything at all.  So in the interest of (relative) brevity, here’s a snapshot of my first month abroad:

Week 1

I arrived August 24 after a grueling 18 hour flight which I do not recommend – the flight is so long that I got over my jet lag before I even landed in HK.

First week of exchange: Characterized by continually meeting and re-meeting the hundreds of Europeans (I’m one of maybe a dozen Americans) who have descended upon CityU (not to mention the thousands elsewhere) in various bars almost every night; more on the bar scene in another post, I think.  Since school hasn’t started yet we can just explore the city and meet other students, which has been the best part so far and made adjusting to life here really easy.  When you have hundreds of people your age experiencing the same thing, it gets exponentially more bearable.  We made a school-organized group trip to IKEA and all of the Swedes got a little bit homesick – no, I’m not kidding.  I picked up a couple pillows for myself after having slept on a pair of sweatpants over a towel the first night, well on my way to being a college student in a real dorm for the first time.

My third day in Hong Kong, I finally get a cell phone plan and then take a spontaneous trip to Macau – yes, that Macau – to activate some fellow students’ visas and spend the day walking around the small island country.

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hello world!

leal followers:

i have failed you.  i promised you  a blog of all of the experiences i would be having in hong kong; of the myriad wonders to be witnessed in what some call “the new york of asia.”  i promised to post pictures and share stories; i have done neither (instagram does not count as i just post once a week for likes).

i have now been in hong kong for almost three weeks.

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