The city, a lazer light show, and a typhoon.

Sometimes, studying abroad can be difficult. Always, learning your way around a new city is difficult. Take for instance, our first journey into the city yesterday. We met our whole program at the Lazer light show that takes place every night at eight on the skyline of Hong Kong Island. Sweet. Really sweet. The skyline in itself is enough to take your breath away. My picture needed to be quadruple panoramic, because the skyline behind me is just a tidbit of the whole thing. Afterwards we journeyed to the night markets (where "crap" takes on new meaning--even though I'm sure you could find some treasures if you hunted and fought with the non-English speaking stall man about prices) to find ethernet cords and browse around.

The real difficulty was trying to get home. We had to transfer MTR lines (their subway/metro/whatever-you-want-to-call-it-train-below-the-ground) and walk about a mile underground to get to the second train. Then, once we got to University station, the buses had stopped circulating and there were no taxis queued, so we had to find our way home. No problem except it was raining. After about an hour, thinking we were lost, thinking we new where we are, having a man in a lexus stop to ask in broken English if we needed help (no way we are getting into a random man's car, I think we've all seen Taken a bit too recently), finding a Cantonese speaking security guard, and climbing a bit of a mountain (the whole campus is a mountain), we finally made it home.

Sometimes studying abroad in Hong Kong has it's drenched moments. Always, studying abroad in Hong Kong will have memorable moments.