I've made it to hong kong.
At 7:15AM when my plane landed it was 90 degrees and drizzling.
I spent the day walking up and down Nathan Road (imagine Broadway, but lined with Banyan trees), looking into shops and just reveling in the locale.
Then I took the ferry across the bay to Hong Kong island proper. I walked through the city (imagine Manhattan, but with a rainforest mountain in the middle, and slightly more asian people) and then took the tram to the top of Victoria Peak.
THere is a path that winds for 50 miles around the whole island; I walked for a while down this path until it started pouring rain (I could actually see teh squall coming across the bay from Kowloon).
I managed, in the evening, too meet up with two other people from Harvard. So while there's still confusion about where we're going (let's just say Harvard deans are now telling the program that if they send us to a leper camp the shit will hit the fan) at least I have people to stay with.
More to say later.
5 comments:
Love it. Did you take part in Saturday night's celebration of the anniversary of the handover?
You liked bubba ho tep? No way.. that movie was awful.
I'd just like to point out that I was hung over when you called me
Wait, you called Matt? At $2 a minute? On MY phone bill??
Yes, I desperately needed someone to check my email for me so I would know where to meet people in hong kong. As I thought you'd be upset if I woke you up at 4 in the morning; I chose to call matt.
Capiche?
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