Thursday 31st until today - 1st day of school and city tour...

so here we go, an update on the latest breaking news!
Thursday we had another introduction, but this one was much more interessting though since the lecture was held by Robert Burns - the founder of some uninteressting luxury hotels like the Regent Group and stuff... ;) - was really great to listen to his story!!
After that we got a tour though our faculty, so just the School of Hotel and Tourism Management, not the whole campus luckily… in the office I switched some subjects around on my timetable so now I have Mondays off, - which is great for few trips to China or wherever :D :D :D
After the school stuff I met up with Julia and Laura to go to the beach together, where we met up with some guys from the University of Hong Kong, quite a fun afternoon, nice and relaxing! only annoyance was that the bus took like an hour to get to Repulse bay, so I gotta figure out a beach closer by, cuz I don’t wanna take such a journey so often, or at least not as often as I wanna go to the beach!! Afterwards we went to a Thai restaurant and had some real good food there… then went home quite late.
oh and important: Thursday was Mrs. Johnsons birthday (my host-grandma in Boston) so to reach her on Thursday I called her on Friday… confusing with this time difference!!

Friday I had my first classes at PolyU! how exciting!! well, it was a lecture in “China - Hotel and Tourism” and I really liked its contents so far! afterwards we had the seminar for the same course. Was nice but the Chinese girls in the class seemed as if they had never spoken in front of a group before,… very nervous and too shy to even introduce themselves. Also it was a little childish, but maybe that’s just typical?! hmmm ---- oh and one good thing about the class is also that our lecturer asked us whether we thought a fieldtrip to china was necessary to understand the culture… well, you can imagine the answer!!
At night I met up with some people from the StudiVZ (Germans know it! – a webpage where majority of German students is registered… kind of a network) who are all here in HK… that was nice also, we found a German “Biergarten” and had real Bitburger beer there…. great greaat… and they even also sold German food! gotta remember that place!!

Yesterday – Saturday I went on a city tour organised by PolyU. We went to Hong Kong Island and there to Central, Wan Chai to the Exhibition Centre, to Admiralty to a little port, to Repulse bay and to Stanley market. In Repulse bay we went to some kinda open air temple, with a ton of Buddha statues and if you touched them whatever they stand for would come true – as our tourguide said! The line at the money and successs one was very long, so I didn’t stand in line thre, but instead got in went to the love and family one with all the others for the fun of it! uhuu.. exiting!! oh and I went over a bridge and just because of that it is absolutely sure that I will live three years longer. so actually when I die I will know that I would have usually died three years earlier already. It would be interessting to find out how the Chinese figured that out tough!!
After all that we went to one of Hong Kongs highlights – the Viktoria Peak. the way up we passed quite a few villas in the mountains, all with a great ocean view, a tropical garden with pool and a Rolls Royces (already picked my future one ;) ) but the view from the top was of course the greatest. WOW! Undescribably unbelievable!! very very great!

And finally today I met up with some guys who were on the tour yesterday and together we made our way to Sham Shui Po, where our tour guide from yesterday had recommended a very special restaurant for us… a snake restaurant! hmmm and the snake was so yummy!!! and afterwards the guy even let us hold a snake – an uncooked one I should say!! Quite scarry at the first moment, but after a few deep breaths I realised that I was still alive and it was actually quite interessting to hold it… maybe I’ll get one when I’m back in Breda, what do you think, Antoinette, Karo and Anke???
After that I went to Mong Kok to the Ladies market with Fi and Mandy, just to make sure that I would go shopping once more before I die of the snakes poison. It was really nice over there, got a new bag (finally, cuz I really needed one), a new pink belt, an alarmclock which doesn’t make the sound of a bell waking up the whole floor (was definitely necessary to prevent a small-scale war between France and Germany) and a new greyish top! and now that’s where we are… I am sitting in my room, its almost midnight and I am sharing my chair with Mandy who is sitting next to me – occupying half of my chair…!! tomorrow I am still off while everybody else goes to uni… so I will enjoy a whoooole long day at the beach with some people who just as lucky as me!!