So, after saying all our goodbyes, and finishing our end of the semester performance, and staying up until 5am packing, and then waking up at 6am to leave Nanlang, and after many many tears...we were on our way to Hong Kong. We went to Hong Kong a few days before our flight, as well as a few other people from Zhongshan. The ferry was actually kind of an ordeal...they wanted us to pay for our luggage, but we hadn't been told that we had needed to, and none of us had any money. I guess they got fed up with none of us understanding anything, cuz they eventually let us on, and had a bunch of help from this one American guy. He seriously helped us out a ton, not only with that situation, but with our luggage as well.
Anyways, then getting to our hostel was kind of a mess too...Lex and Chris's taxi driver didn't know where to go, that was kind of my bad, but they found me and Leisha eventually, and then it was just a matter of checking in...oh boy. Our hostel in Hong Kong was....ghetto to the max. I'm almost positive people have been murdered in the staircases. The first floor was full of shops...most with Indian men working at them. The place smelled...weird. And when I finally found the elevators that were supposed to lead up to our hostel, one of the elevators went to even floors, and the other went up to odd floors, but neither of them had buttons to go down...so once you were upstairs, you could only go down on the elevator if it happened to stop for someone on their way up...otherwise, you either had to wait forever, or take the stairs...the murder stairs. So...that was interesting, haha. Oh, plus our room was the size of a closet. Yah... at least the location was convenient? haha.
Just outside our hostel.
I don't have a picture in the staircase, or of our closet of a room...this is the only picture I have at our hostel...the view outside the hallway window.
Me, Alexa, and Chris headed out to see the Big Buddha that afternoon, and that was when we saw this man on the metro. He was beautiful. We struggled while in Hong Kong, not being able to speak English in front of people because they understand it there, but we especially struggled when we were standing in front of him on the metro. It made us miss China.
Heading to the Bid Buddha, riding a gondola through the clouds again.
It was really foggy when we got up to the Big Buddha. It made us kinda sad.
Luckily it would clear up every couple of minutes, and we were able to get some clear pictures.
The next day the 3 of us went to Aberdeen fishing village.
And that night we watched the light show at Victoria Harbour.
The next day it was time to fly home. So very sad....until my next adventure ;)
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