Friday, August 28, 2009

Posted by 雯雯 at 4:07 PM 2 comments
Sooooo much on my mind now, but this will probably turn out to be a piss poor and short blog anyway :<

Firstly, I'd like to point out a couple of interesting stuff about Hong Kong and it's inhabitants.
Here, caps and umbrellas aren't only for gangstas and rainy days. They are also used for hiding from the sun (to avoid getting a tan)
Cleaning teeth with a tooth pick and tying your shoe laces are things that must be hidden.
Whistling is a no-no at night, it makes ghosts appear D;
Also, have you noticed Chinese doing the v sign on pictures? All though I in Norway have grown up believeing it meant "peace", this is not what Hong Kongers do, apparently. Yall know the "guy with sunglasses"-smiley on MSN, I bet. Imagine him saying "Yeah", and you know what the v sign means here!

Secondly, about turning Chinese...
I get a lot of sideway glances and the occasional stare here and there, but I pretend not to notice n__n
I actually do understand it, because I'm having a hard time not staring at foreigners here myself, because you hardly ever see one :o It's like "WAAAA, A FOREIGNER"
*cough*

Also, visited Disneyland today. It was super fun, though I kinda regret not buying the picture of us from Space Mountain. It was less scary than I thought it would be, but my mouth was still wide open in a silent scream o_o
It was also suuuuuuuuper hot, so if you happen to look at Facebook photos from Disneyland, you might see that I'm pink as a pig on some of them ^^;

eeep
HMM

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

About this heat...

Posted by 雯雯 at 4:49 PM 3 comments
... seriously, I love it, but I just can't seem to shake the feeling that I've pissed myself o_o
I'm hoping it goes away soonish. *cough*

Enough strange talk, let's see what's new... Well, today the Cantonese lessons started, it was very interesting, of course. After those, Angel (my host sister), Marco (my "first friend", an AFS returnee who is helping out with stuff here) + Angel's friend Tracy, a Swiss AFSer (Raphael), his first friend and some other AFS people went for a nice lunch at a Tea House (茶餐廳 ;3). I got beef and tomato and rice, + iced chocolate milk, everything for 34 Hong Kong dollars hihi. This tea house was an interesting experience. Firstly, everything was in Chinese, so whoever says that you don't need to know it to live in Hong Kong is lying. Secondly, you get glasses with liquid to clean your eating cutlery stuff with (chopsticks and such), and I'll give you a sec to guess what liquid it is....
oki enough guessing, it's tea actually o_O
I got some tourist photos and such, before we left (see them on facebook <3) style="text-align: center;">I think I saw someone drink out of one of these actually

wut?

After the tea house, we took the MTR (google it!) to (I think it was) Mong Kok to set up a bank account for me and Raphael, a Swiss AFSer. We had to wait before we could do that though, so in the meanwhile we went to a gaming place. We're not talking handheld gaming, we are not talking gambling gaming. We're talking "hit the punching ball thing as hard as you can", which we did. We also threw basket hoops, and we rounded everything up with taking some purikura photos (yes, lots of Japanese stuff here in Hong Kong). I swear the booth made me look even whiter than I am. You can't even see the difference between my skin and the white in my eyes o: We were, of course, a little late back to the bank, but no trouble there. We finished up the account business quickly (I even got a children's account haha), and then we took a taxi to a biiiiiiig shopping mall full of expensive stores, to watch a movie :>

The movie was G.I. Joe, and we bought some Salt and Vinegar potato chips from a supermarket (lovely vinegar'y), popcorn (very sweet :o) and soft drinks (THEY HAD FANTA). The movie was very adequate, with a lovely amount of action and pew pews.

Sweet popcorn; literally

*yawn*
I'm tired now, so I'm going to bed
muhuh

gnight

Sunday, August 23, 2009

<3 Hong Kong

Posted by 雯雯 at 5:02 PM 5 comments
Ya srlsy.

Today has been a super eventful day! All though i didn't take any pictures (cry), it was a great day hihi.

All the students were woken up at around 7-7.15, and we had to pack our shiz. After that, we all got down for breakfast (cereal, salad, ham, funny bread and a fish thing o_o). At 9 and 10, we were meeting our host families (group A at 9, group B at 10, I was group B D;). I was really really nervous, but some of the nice AFS volunteers comforted me and my First Friend (who has been in Norway) was there to help.

My host family is really awesome, and really nice too :3
I managed to fall while we were walking to the car (of course -_-') and I scratched my feet, and they came with tissues and water to clean it, and when we got home, they even found disinfectant and band-aids :o

After unpacking, we all sat down and they gave me some rules and regulations, what to call them, if I could bring friends home and so on. When we were done with that, we all went to eat at a pizza hut, and I was surprised to see how cheap everything was. We live above a shopping mall, so I got to see lots of things. And yeah, Hong Kong is surprisingly cheap ^^;

I know a certain person who would -love- HK burger kings; there was olives on everything ;3
One thing I also noticed was that stuff with "Norwegian Salmon" was popular in restaurants, Norwegian Salmon Pizza, Norwegian Salmon Salad etc. We also went and took my picture (eep!) and cut me a key (yay).

When we were done with pizza, we went back home and I took a sweet nap. It'll be weird going to bed soon without a downy, but I think I'll manage hihi n__n

We still had stuff to do after my nap; we went out again to Tsim Sha Tsui, the famous shopping place. Here we found me a camera, and went to dinner with one of Uncle's business associates. After that we just hung around in the mall.

Okiiiiii, need to go to bed now
-- HMM

Saturday, August 22, 2009

yawn

Posted by 雯雯 at 5:52 AM 7 comments
After a looooooong flight (with surprisingly good food) I am in Hong Kong, whee. Well, I've been here for a little while actually.

Pictures from the flight


Nom <3


Soy :o

The camp is interesting and full of nice people, though I can't wait to meet my host family and start going to school, lol.

My first thoughts when entering HK was something like wheeee tall buildings, my second, gosh it's hot. At the moment it's something like 30 degrees celsius and super humid, so it doesn't really feel like you're breathing when outside.



-distilled- water



View from the airport



Tall buildings <3



Plenty of stray cats here



eep

I've also gotten a taste of how the Chinese handle the Swine Flu; I had to fill out several forms describing symptoms and where I've been the past week, and the AFS staff takes our temperatures several timesa day. We also had to wear masks, but only the short stretch from the bus to the camp o_O

That's all fer now
-- HMM

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Testing

Posted by 雯雯 at 12:13 PM 1 comments
There is no spoon


-- HMM

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Hyssing og skrekkfilmer // Twine and horror movies

Posted by 雯雯 at 12:06 PM 0 comments

I disse dager da første skoledag nærmer seg fort og jeg snart drar er det masse og ingenting som skjer her hjemme, alt på en gang o_O
Folk utnytter seg av de siste dagene til å stoppe innom og si hei, og etter et besøk der vi endte opp med å se på skrekkfilmer har jeg gjennoppdaget Juon (The Grudge). Jeg elsker denne filmen!

Se på den igjen og igjen.... muhuh


Ellers har jeg begynt å pakke (endelig)! Det er ikke bare bare og p
akke for ett år, men jeg har kommet ganske godt i gang synes jeg da.

HMM

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The first day of school is getting closer, as well as my departure from Norway, and there's lots of stuff and nothing at all happening here at home, all at the same time o_O
People use these final days before stuff starts happening to stop by and say hi, and after a particular visit where we ended up watching horror movies, I've re-discovered Juon (The Grudge). I simply love this movie!
Watch it again and again... muhuh

Other than that, I've started packing (finally)! It's not easy packing for a year, but I've gotten a good start, or so I think.

HMM

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Må pakke! // Gotta pack!

Posted by 雯雯 at 10:58 PM 0 comments
Eeek, det er 16nde august, og jeg drar om noen få dager ;_;
Jeg har ikke begynt å pakke egentlig, men jeg har fått vite mer om hvor og hos hvem jeg skal bo, hihi. Jeg skal bo i et område som heter Lai Chi Kok i Hong Kong, sammen med en familie på fire. De virker veldig hyggelige og åpne, så det blir skikkelig kult n__n

Ellers skal jeg gå på noe som wikipedia beskriver som en katolsk jenteskole, og heldigvis snakker de engelsk der. Det betyr at hvis jeg jobber hardt kan jeg komme tilbake til Norge og ta tredjeåret mitt her, yipee! Skolen ligger visstnok en time unna der jeg bor (om det er med bil eller til fots vet jeg ikke), så det er mulig jeg må stå tiiiiiiidlig opp.

Annet enn det så har planene om å lære seg kinesisk i ferien gått rett i dass, hihi. Jeg fant ut at jeg bare skulle nyte ferien jeg, så fikk jeg se hva jeg får til når jeg kommer frem.

zuum zuum,
legger ut bilder når jeg tar dem,
HMM

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Eeek, it's the 16th of August, and I'm leaving in a couple of days ;_;
I haven't really begun packing, but I've learnt more about where and who I'll live with, hihi. I'm going to live in an area called Lai Chi Kok in Hong Kong, with a family of four. They seem really nice and open, so it's going to be really fun n__n

Other than that, I will be attending something wikipedia describes as an all-girls catholic school, and luckily, it's an English-speaking school. That means that if I work hard, I can come back to Norway and do my third year of videregående (as opposed to doing the second year over), yipee! The school is presumably one hour away from the place I'll be living (if this is by car or walking, I don't know), so I might have to get up reaaaaaal early.

In addition to this, my plans of learning Chinese during the vacation have uh well, let's just say it just didn't work out, hihi. I found out that I'd just enjoy the vacation and see what I could learn when I get there.

zuum zuum,
getting some pictures out when I take them,
HMM

 

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