Night on the Town

Today we started classes, and I learned about the language Chinese mandarin, which was an awesome and interesting part of my day.

After lunch in the YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association) where we are staying, we had a brief afternoon class, then played soccer in an outdoor enclosed indoor soccer area…hope you followed that. Then we went downtown for a light show and dinner, which turned out to be a crazy event:
Basically, five of us walked around Hong Kong and ended up at a tiny little hole in the wall noodle shop in a building, and ate there.

While there, everyone but me ordered something extremely spicy….and I saw grown men cry. After that, we realized we would be late for the light show, so we ran, trying to find the harbor to see the light show that is on Hong Kong Island…we were at the time on the mainland. We ended up trying to go through a very expensive hotel…..the kind with Lamborghini’s sitting outside in the lot. We could not make it through, so we ended up getting out and catching the last 10 minutes of the light show.

After the light show, and taking many pictures, we boarded the ferry to go to Hong Kong Island, on which the huge tower that is in the movie the dark night is in. We walked around a while and decided to try to get in the building….but to no avail because of the guard. We ended up in a strip mall adjacent to the building, and then we found ourselves at a high end club/bar/restaurant outside 10 stories up, which had access to the batman building. So, naturally, we went inside, and ended up eating a very pricey desert there….around 5 US dollars…..In the end, we ran through a fancy hotel, got into the batman building, and had awesome deserts….day well spent


Tomorrow classes start at 9:30 again, learning more Mandarin….I’m excited…..Pictures still to come.

So be it,

-Sam Mahtani