China Crash COURSE!

Greeeetings Everybody!

First I would like to apologize that this post is not in video form and if this first sentence has already bored you I will not be offended if you go to another page...... 

Second thought if you are bored, Facebook is legal in Hong Kong (which is where I will be for a week) but when I travel to mainland China I will not be able to go on. Sooo I posted some pics if ya wanna check them out.

For those of you who have stayed, thank you. The reason I am not posting in video is because I do not have the proper lighting in the place in which I receive wifi to do a video. A video recording would require me to walk back across the place we are staying at to go indoors...(thats right I am outdoors and blogging) The place where Wifi is best received is outdoors I will explain soon....

Before I continue there is no reason to how I think so if you are confused at all about what I am saying I apologize. I am not one to regurgitate my thoughts eloquently. Also, Dad I apologize if my punctuation or sytax makes no sense at all you will have to deal and you can explain to everyone reading this that you did educate me better then this and it is not your fault. Blame it on the jetlag/culture craziness that brings me to write to you this way....

Anyway where shall we begin...

Flight- Awesome (there was tvs in the back of chairs where I could choose from a list of movies, tv, and games. I watched Social Network and Despicable Me. Great choices!)

Group of new friends- Awesome

Today we got off the flight and journeyed to the YMCA camp in Hong Kong. Not the greatest living conditions but its awesome because we are surrounded by a bunch of kids at camp. I just talked to some kido's (via their good english and my crappy way of communicating with my hands) who want a soccer rematch tomorrow.  I am looking forward to that!

After we got settled into camp we showered and headed to our first info meeting. There Jay (our program leader) filled us in on some stuff about Hong Kong. We received our Octopus card. For those of you who are interested on what that is..it is essentially a reload able debit card you can use anywhere, Subways,etc. Its great!

By the way at anytime you have a question post a comment and I will do my best with what limited knowledge I have to answer.

After we got our cards we headed off for downtown. On our way we passed so many many tall skyscrapers. Every one of them was apartment complexes. It is incredible. There are 100's of these buildings and everyone of them is much much taller then the Millenium in downtown St. Louis. As you approach downtown you would see the business buildings for the most part it was housing. The area of downtown we were at was in the tourist area. It was right across the river from where the British originally colonized. Therefore, when you looked across the rive you saw business skyscrapers just as ginormous and impressive as Manhattan. It was foggy but you can see some of these pictures on my Facebook. We walked around a but then we headed back.

Our 1 hour subway ride brought us back to our terminal. The terminal where we are staying near is located in a huge mall. These malls are insane so packed and squished. (and if I havent mentioned it yet, the Chinese move so much faster and are so much more stressful to be around. I though the US was bad.) One level of the mall would be normal stores then the other was a third world meat market just a floor below. That is where I chose to dine. As a gentlemen was slicing heads off creatures he was preparing my pork and rice. It was greasy and delicious. No second thoughts. The girls were grossed out while walking around observing live fish being cut in half then sold right away. The Chinese reallly like it fresh. 

We finished up that craziness hit up a store to buy water, bananas and breakfast bars. Now I am back at the YMCA camp in crash mode with my mind about to melt into putty.

Love you all who read. Hopefully I can post soon. It is nearing 9 pm and it is sooo bedtime. Talk to you soon.

P.s. If someone sees Dave Burns tell him I saw Asian version of him walking in the Airport today.......

Also, if Dave Burns was not at school today it is very possible he is doubling as a Chinese Spy. It was the same person. 

Toodles!