It's been a while...

... since I last wrote, atually almost 2 weeks, so here's a quick update.
shopping update first:
great news is: I got new shooooeeeees!! yeihhh.. and they are light brown with pink shoelaces Converses. other than that I got a new shirt in pink a new shirt in black with white dots and a black (look out, newly learned word from british people ahead) "cardigan". sounds quite british so I guess I would have just called it a jacket... a thin, cloth kind of jacket!
party update:
Two weeks ago we actually had our first "StudiVZ Stammtisch". Yes really, there is a group of about 80 people by now who study in HK and signed up in the StudiVZ, so we thought, hey why not take this as a good reason to uhm... meet ;) First time we were "only" with about 25 people... but well, we are getting more and more which makes it harder to find a location each time. Anyways. Only problem is that I have uni early on Tuesday mornings... but well, thats I guess something to ignore! So Mondays is always Stammttisch time, a word which, btw, each non-german speaking person should learn by heart, but for those unfortunates amongst us, let me explain: [A "Stammtisch" describes a Group of people with a same interesst who meet on a regular basis in a certain bar or pub] (google definitio :) )
besides monday, there is another important day not to miss out on: Wednesday! the new definition of Wednesday in Hong Kong would be Ladies night, which means: freee drinks aaaall night long!! yippiiii, lucky me that I have thursdays off!
Uni update:
So that Tuesday was the first real day of school here.. very busy, cuz in the first week I actually went to 9 instead of only the required 5 courses, just to see which ones are nicest and least work to do in order to chose which ones to continue with. I ended up with some interessting subjects on Tourism in China, Airline Management of course Chinese! Buuut... no I am not so lazy, I also took some well, rather unloved ones: Tourism Policy and one about Ethics and Law yuck yuck yuck.. just figured that it would be better to do this here... who knows when NHTV will "plan" a course on this ;) ? Oh and of course an important aspect I considered when I put my schedule togeether is, that now I have EACH Monday off, which means that I can go on long weekends, and EACH Thursday off, which well, uhm.. I will use for most intensive studying purposes only! ;)
Until now the classes are all fine, project groups have been formed and so far they also seem to work out well! The most fun is of course the Putonghua class (Mandarin Chinese) which consists - until now - mostly of pronunciation practise of various vowals, initials and finals to build a word... but I am proud to say that I could also already ask someone for how he or she is and for the name... not that I would understand the answer though, and not to mention that they dont speak Putonghua here in hong Kong but Cantonese. Well, this brings me to my next topic here:
Travel Update:
For the single benefit of improving my chinese I thought I should go on a trip to Shanghai!! And currently it seems as if that will be in about 3 weeks, at the enf of hte month and beginning october. I'll probably meet up with Megan there, (remember, the american girl from the hostel in Beijing) and I might also go to Anji and Hangzhou where she lives.
Oh and one more thing I should not forget about is of course last weekend, where I went to Macau from Sat. to Sunday with Mandy and Fi. macau to celebrate Fionas Birthday! Macau is this peninsula about 60 km west of here, a former Portuguese colony an thus full of mediterranean architecture, restaurants and atmosphere, in combination with a bunch of luxury casinos. Unfortunately I didnt win any money there, which means that I almost have to go again, right? Anyways, Macau was great fun! On our second day there we got a glimpse of Hollywood feeeling, when, not thinking of anything to happen, we made our way to the beach - one of the most ugly ones ever seen, but surely THE tourist attraction for Chinese mainland tourists. Another attraction for them? oh yeah of course: Fiona and me: wow: Westerners! Especially becasue of Fi's red hair they came over to take pictures of us, not only one, a zillion!! and then of course with them on it on the left and on the right and so on... one guy even shot a motion picture of us! unbelievable, but fun! Also had the best "pork in a bun" and grilled octopus from one of those stands there.
now that was it again... today I have to do some school stuff, some organising and so on and I might go out for IPod shopping as well... if the weather stays nice and there is no new Typhoon coming of which we had three during the last week and no more earthquakes of which there was one.... byeee ... zaijian!