Tuesday and Wednesday 4th-5th

Tuesday, Sept 4th- So on Monday night Justin, Remco, Amber and I ordered some pizza, which is a special gourmet thing in Hong Kong, from Pizza Box. It was pretty good, and then we played with those balloon toys you can get from the dollar store, where you take the goo and the straw and blow it up. Amber and I were immensely skilled at it, however, the boys decided it was a stupid toy because they couldn’t do it, haha. Then Tuesday is my sleeping in day, I don’t have class until 2, which is Liberalism and Its Limits, a political philosophy class. There are a lot of internationals in it, but I think it may end up being one of my favorites. The prof is Chinese, he’s really cool, he gave the same sort of speech that Salkever and Beltran gave that this wasn’t an easy A class, but we’d get out what we put in. And we’d have to actually do the work. It had some nice lively discussion and it’s the type of class I enjoy. Anyways, that evening I hung out with my friend Megha, who lives in the same hall as Amber, and all their friends. We ate at the canteen by us and then hung out a little while in their hall. I like to pretend I live in the Sassoon Road Halls. Wednesday Sept 5th- Wednesday I had my Music of China class, in which I was the only international student, which was interesting. But it seems like it will be really cool. The prof is a composer too, and he plays on the traditional instrument. I am excited to learn about all that stuff. He seems pretty strict and he calls on people randomly, but I think it will be really cool. Then I wasn’t going to really take a Chinese class, but my friends were going to the easiest one, Mandarin speaking for foreigners. It was actually pretty fun, though the tones are really hard, and we all laughed at each others horrible accents. There are exchange students from sooo many places, like in that class there are ones from Mongolia and South America and Bangladesh and all these exotic places. It’s really cool. Wednesday night we were going to go ice skating in this mall but it was sadly being used by child figure skaters so we just grabbed some food, which was actually really really good rice fusion, the mall actually has a pretty good cool food court. Justin and I figured we’d start sharing meals to be even super cheaper, since they give you so much food here. Maybe someday we’ll share the “special rice” at our canteen. It is $11 hk, so to split it would be like 70 cents American for dinner. Yeah. haha