Saturday, April 18, 2009

I made it to Hong Kong!

So to start off we made the 14 hour flight over here, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. We left San Fransico at 12:30 pm and arrived in Hong Kong at 6pm "Hong Kong Time" so we are 13 hours ahead of central time.
We arrived at the school and and then had some orientation and then we were all ready for bed, even though the ladies in my room we all woke up quite a few times at during the night.
Saturday we started off going to Stanley Market and had some of the school girls with us to help barter prices with us! We ate some good Chinese food for lunch.
Then we headed to another place to shop and I got my Jade ring that I was looking for!! Then we rode the Peak Tram down the mountain. (It was raining while we took this down so I didn't get the best pictures) It is pretty much was like riding a roller coaster down except they went slow down it.
Then we were down at downtown Hong with all the really tall buildings. NYC is nothing compared to these buildings.
Then we took the Star Ferry to another island and then ate at a restaurant called "Rice Paper" which was Vietnamese food. Then we headed back to the school and now I am thinking about calling it a night and it is only 8:30.
So hopefully I can keep this up as the week goes on!

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