Since I am finally starting to get settled here in Hong Kong, I decided that it would be good to start blogging about it so that everyone can see what I've been up to!
I arrived here at 1:15pm local time on Friday. It was a direct flight that left TO at 10am on Thursday, so as you can see I lost a day pretty much. The time change is a full 12 hours ahead, so for me right now it is almost 7pm but for you it would only be 7am and I'm sure very few of you have started your Monday! As such, Friday was a tough day for me. I only slept for an hour tops on the flight because it isn't the most comfortable and also because I was just really excited to get to HK! When I arrived I could just feel my eyes hurting; since I had like 5 hours to kill until Chris got home I decided to lay down for an hour, but I didn't want to sleep too long or else I would hurt any chance I had of avoiding jet lag. My lay down however turned into a solid couple hours of comatose like sleep that ended with Chris having to shake me to wake me up! After getting my bearings, Chris and I set out to meet some people at a local pub where we had a few pints and relaxed. We stayed out fairly late so that I would sleep well. This turned out to be a good idea because I slept soundly until 11am! Chris showed me around a little on Saturday and then I went with his good buddy Mike Bailo and his wife to the HK football club (like a country club) to go swimming and then for a run with him. What a beautiful place...you can see the pictures below! After a full afternoon at the pool, Chris and I went to his staff athletic banquet where we had some solid food and hung out with all his friends. It was a lot of fun and there are also some good pictures.
Sunday was an unbelievable day. Chris' colleague convinced a parent of one of his students to allow him to use their family's yacht. I've been out on several nice boats back in Canada, but none of them come even close to the boat I was on. The pictures can only describe what I am talking about. This boat had three huge flat screens, three levels, four bedrooms and a couple nice decks with a couch like spot to sunbath. There were about 15 of us on the boat and it felt like there was no one out there. To put it in perspective, we had a crew of 4 Chinese workers to drive us around for the full day! We anchored and swam for a while, then drove to a marina where we got off to have a phenomenal seafood dinner and then got back on the boat and went to watch a light show in the world famous Victoria Harbour. The light show consisted of all the building along the coast doing something unique with all the lights and elevators and stuff in their building. Pretty cool...I couldn't get any really good photos but I will always remember it.
Today (Monday) was interesting for me. Chris had to work (who does that by the way?!) so I went out exploring by myself the whole day. I wandered aimlessly at times and navigated the MTR (subway) throughout a lot of the city. It is really really busy here; people are everywhere. It can be kind of overwhelming but I am getting used to it quickly. The heat can be tough on the body too, as the humidity is really high. You would think I could get prepared living in Windsor, but it is to a whole new level here. Despite this, I'm told the temperature is uncharacteristically low for this time of year?!
I think that is all for now. I really hope everyone is doing well back home! Keeping up with these posts will be a goal of mine, so that I can let you all know I'm doing ok and so I can make sure to remember all the cool things that happen on my Asian Adventure!
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Hopefully I can get this site in China, if not I will let you all know that it has changed!!
Take care,
Coatesy (Andrew)
PS. I'm working on a way to put photos on here for those of you that don't use facebook, but for those of you that do, here is the link http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2151817&id=122701550
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