From Canada with Love: Its all about Hong Kong

my beautiful campus

Looking back at my blog I just realized I barely wrote about HK – what a shame and I cannot believe myself. So here we go HK is as an amazing vibrant city and everyone can find something to do or somewhere to go. Every night here is an adventure and you never know where you will end up. In the beginning I had some trouble going to clubs always something occurred and I just ended up in a bar but I can proudly say I have been to many HK nightclubs and I love it. Even though sometimes they play Justin Bibber or too much of Rihanna's music, but all of those songs I will remember as my exchange songs when I return to the homeland (do I have one?). The past days have been very hard with lots of goodbyes but I guess this is life and we need to take the best out of it. Back to HK, there are many islands that surround HK and they are definitely worth the visit, you take an hour boat and you are in the cutest fisherman village, you can swim, shop, eat and even spend the night. For nature lovers there is a lot of hiking in HK and even surfing. We did do a hike once it was tough but definitely worth it. Who does not like party on the beach with tents, and a very good company.
I love going to central its my favorite place such a mixture of Western and Asian cultures. Where else you can find the businessmen, and women so well dressed, and successful marching to their work places. Amazing skyscrapers but you don’t feel like you are in concrete jungle because you can find 3 major parks downtown HK; botanical garden, HK park, Hollywood Road park. I love the fact that HK government tries to preserve the nature, hence HK is a very green city where you don’t feel the pollution. The traffic here is nothing compare to big cities around the world. I was never stuck in traffic for more than 5 minutes throughout the three months I have been here. The MTR system is amazing is so accessible and easy to understand. Since our campus is located in the New Territories we need to take the MTR quiet often. In every MTR station you can find a mall, yes they love malls, and yes they love consuming. But, even though they consume a lot they still save 60% of their income, which we cannot state about North American population. Another thing about shopping is that they are really well dressed, and all dressed differently from one another. I have never seen 2 people wearing the same thing, which again does happen in North America a lot (not even the clothes but the style is the same).
They love technology I-Phone 4 is the favorite gadget, everyone has one. The first few times in the MTR I was shocked that almost every second person has an I-Phone4. They also like to sleep; in the MTR, in class, in the library, on the bench, basically everywhere they can find a place. I think the sleeping patterns here are very different, my roommate never sleeps the whole night, she will wake up go study and then come back for a nap and then back to studying again.