Okay post finally!

Okay, so I finally found some time to post again! This might be a long update so I'm not sure if I will include everything.

This last weekend was quite full of events. Last Thursday was National day so everyone had school and work off that day. We decided to celebrate by going to this area of HK called LanGwai where a lot of bars and clubs are. Edmond, my first local friend here in HK, met us and brought a bunch of his friends to celebrate with us. The streets were crowded at LanGwai but it was a lot of fun. We met a lot of local students.

Thursday, HK put on a gigantic firework display that lasted 23 minutes. It doesn't seem like a long time but imagine a regular firework display in the States x four. They launched all the fireworks from four different boats in the harbour. Basically, it was the same display multiplied by four so it appeared sync-ed and uniform. At the end, they had fireworks that burst into Chinese characters (which is a lot more complex than English letters mind you). They shut down a main strip of streets at Tsim Sha Tsui and it was completely packed. I don't think I've ever seen so many people in one place, perhaps it was because I was in the midst of it. We were so tired after the fireworks we decided to go back to our dorms and play some games.

Friday night, we decided to go to my friends' favorite club with my roommate and one of his friends. At about 230 or 3 in the morning, everyone comes out of the bars and clubs and just hang out in street. It turns into a big street party. There, we met several other foreigners, one teaching English in HK. Our night progressed when Bosco, my roommate, took us to this secret place were several of us just hung out and chatted till we met up with the girls again.

Saturday was the Moon festival. Bosco explained that it was like America's Thanksgiving. Family would get together for dinner and then you hang out with your friends afterwards. Late at night, we lite candles and lanterns at a near by park and ate mooncakes and just hung out for several hours. The moon was super bright and there were a lot of other groups carrying around lanterns and enjoying the festival as well. It was really fun.

Last night, I went and practiced with the TKD club here at HKBU. Although it was quite different from anything at home, everyone was very intrigued about me being "Korean" and knowing TaeKwonDo. The instructor is very friendly and wanted to make sure I learned from him, but also he learning from me. I already met a lot of people just from the club and my friend Vincent, who has never trained before, decided to start this Thursday too. I think it will be something good to get into again.

Other than that, classes are really good and I keep finding interesting and "neat" things about Asia. Such as my highlighter pen that has a plastic window pane and highlighter material around it. This enables the user to see what they are highlighting and enables them to stop before highlighting too much.

Pretty nifty.