Dragon fruit! I had never seen one before coming to China but people said that you can find them in some stores in America. The skin is really soft so you can easily cut the piece in half. Then it works nicely as it's own bowl and you can scoop the fruit right out. The part you eat looks like a dalmatian. It is white with little black spots and tastes very good.
The worker's bikes outside my school. I just loved that they are workers on the go - bringing their supplies with them by bike.
Hong Kong Day 2. To cross from Kowloon to Hong Kong city central you take a ferry. So we woke up, got a ride and spent the day in the heart of HK. After grabbing breakfast we headed up to the Peak - the highest mountain on Hong Kong island. You pay 25 HK Dollars and get to take a tram that goes at practically a 45 degree angle up the mountain. We walked around and grabbed some lunch. We ate at the New York Fries chain restaurant. They serve gourmet french fries. Everything in HK is very westernized so many of the restaurants around were things that we had heard of. Then we took a bus back down the mountain. Hong Kong is home of the longest escalator ride in the world. It is 800 meters long so we figured we had to check that out. It turns out that it is not one complete 800 meter ride but a set of escalators going through the city. So you take one that is of regular size, get off, walk to the next one a couple of meters away and then ride that. This goes on for 10-20 escalators. I don't think it should count as the world's longest escalator since it isn't connected, but it was still a fun ride. You go right through the heart of the city and we found a lot of restaurants and stores that we wouldn't have before. After the ride we went shopping and then to dinner at a burger joint in the mall. We headed home shortly after.
Hong Kong! I finally got there. What was even better was that I went with the same group of people that went to Kunming (minus Greg because he had to tutor). So Ben, Andrew, Marie, Cliff, Jess and I set off on Friday after Chinese class to head to Kowloon. We hadn't made reservations for a hostel so first thing was to find a place to stay. We got two rooms in this semi-shady building but it was only 65 HK Dollars so it was worth it. The Hong Kong Dollar is worth a little less than a kuai, so it's about 7 HK Dollars to 1 US Dollar. After we found the place we met up with Elise (a friend of Marie's that was visiting) and Ryan (one of my best friend's friend from college who lives in HK and I had met a few times before). We all went out to dinner at an Indian place and had a great meal. Hong Kong is definitely on the expensive side so dinner was 100 HK dollars a piece. Then we were planning on going to a bar but ended up seeking shelter under a archway with doric columns (thank you Andrew) when it started raining. We spent a number of hours there just sitting on the steps and talking about life.
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