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Friday, January 14, 2011

A new year..and my trip to HK

Well, it's been a while since I've updated.  I'm back from vacation, and I have been working at winter camp for the past 2 weeks.  It's not bad so far.  I only teach 4 classes per day, and I get to leave when they are over at 12:10pm.  Needless to say, I've been taking a nap every single afternoon.  I also accomplished watching all 25 episodes of Boys Before Flowers, a K-drama, in just about 6 days total.  Each episode is at least 1 hour long.  You do the math.  If anyone has some time on their hands to read a lot of subtitles, I highly recommend.

I'll take the rest of this blog entry to talk about Hong Kong and Macau.  (It's more for me to remember what we did..sorry, I know this kind of blog is boring)  First of all, the weather is absolutely amazing.  We left Seoul, with record low temperatures and negative wind chills.   We landed in Hong Kong on December 26th to be greeted with temperatures in the 60's. ^^

The first night we got in really late so we just went to bed.  We stayed at Hong Kong Hostel in Causeway Bay for the first 2 nights and got our own room.  Hostels in HK aren't the best, but it was good for what it was.  Our first full day in Hong Kong, we walked from Causeway Bay to Central.  We stopped to eat lunch at a pretty seedy looking "cooked food" market, but we got rice and noodle dishes for around $3 each.  After that, we took the Peak tram up to the top of the Peak and saw some sick views of HK and Victoria Harbor.  We wandered to East Tsim Sha Tsui to the Avenue of the Stars and saw the Symphony of Lights show on the harbor.