Well despite the awful weather and swine flu epidemic (someone in my dorm has been diagnosed with it so there are currently warnings/face masks everywhere) life in Hong Kong is going rather well! Thursday night we went up to Victoria Peak via cable car and enjoyed gorgeous night views of the habour and skyline. Friday my alumni mentor (who is a bigwig at a Hutchinson shipping company) invited us all to her luxury apartment for dinner and to practice the Columbia fight song for Saturday night’s Black Tie Ivy League Ball. It was at the Grand Hyatt and quite grand, with a four course dinner, fusion dance performances, a live band, and an exciting cheer competition that Columbia won of course. I also have never witnessed so much pretension in one (ball)room…but I guess that is to be expected!
As it was a rainy weekend, I did not do too much exploring, but we did go to a funny Indian/Swiss movie “Tandoori Love” as part of the Asian film festival last night and find really good Mexican food afterwards. If I needed evidence of globalization, I found it through a delicious steak burrito in the middle of Hong Kong.
Work is going well…we have a holiday for the “Handover Day” on Wednesday. CNN doesn’t actually recognize the public holidays here (there are tons of them) but I managed to wrangle myself a half day off. There is going to be a joint celebration of handover (from Brits to Chinese) and protest of the new Chinese censorship laws. Should be pretty interesting. Maybe I’ll join a picket line somewhere and put my rebellious Ivy League education to some good use.
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