Butterfly Beach

Sorry for the big gap between updates... I ment to do one this weekend but the time got away from me...

Casual Tuesday was ANNOYING.
So It's the one day in the year when you don't have to wear the uniform, and they have more rules about what you can wear on that day than on any other day...

So I wake up and put on my clothes, because i don't think i own anything that wouldn't be appropreiate for casual day. I don't have short shorts or shirts that say "weed is great" so i don't see anyway the administration can be angry with me.

So i get to school and the second i get there all my class mates tell me "NO YOU CAN'T WEAR SHORTS TO SCHOOL ON CASUAL DAY!" WTF.... anyways... the teachers didn't notice... but it was irritating as all hell....

plus the fact that it was 35 degrees C outside... it seemed stranged everyone else was wearing jeans...

Wensday was National Day
I went with my family to the Hong Kong Science and Technology College to hang out... it's a big campus with a soccar feild and some very pretty panoramas... I'll put the pictures up soon... we had a good time running aroung...

Aadne called and we made plans to go to Tsim Sha Tsui to watch the fireworks for National Day. (national day of china not Hong Kong) The Fireworks are in Victoria Harbor and the newspaper said the next day that 300,000 people turned out to watch the Fire works... at least 80,000 of them had to be with in 4 block's of where we where casue it was NUTS.

Afterwords the poliece blocked off the streets so you couldn't get to the closest MTR station and we ended up walking 2 miles to Kowloon station as opposed to the Tsim Sha Tsui station....

Luckly i was with friends and it was a great time...

here's one of many many many youtube videos shot that night... you can go to youtube to find more if you don't like this one... just type..

National day Hong Kong Victoria Harbor.



Thursday was my last organized Cantonese class through AFS...

It was sad becasue we won't all see eachother every week... well we won't see eachother durring the week we will still see eachother on weekends... and there are more cantonese classes but it's 2 to 4 students to a voulenteer teacher soo i think i'll learn a lot more that way...

Friday was school...

Saturday I went up and down Hong Kong Island looking at things... took some pictures.. it was good.... that night i met up with the AFSer's but they didn't doo much so me and Guille (arguentina) left... we headed to the IFC the tallest building in Hong Kong to talk and hang out... on the way home I figured out he was JEWISH! soo now we have a jew crew in hong kong...

Sunday was fairly boring...

I finished reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to my little brother and we watched the movie...

Monday

I finished Atlas Shrugged! by Ann Ryand it was good... the end started getting a bit boring... I don't think i quite agree with her but she does have some good points...

the funniest bit is that the my classmates who are running for school government handed out cards on monday... all the cards had you timetable printed on the back so you can carry it with you so you'll remember and on the front it has their logo and their slogn.

"You say what you need. We give, You receive."

I thought the Irony was too thick to help but laughing at...

*you won't get it unless you've read atlas shrugged*

Tuesday was off school for some holiday or another...

I went hiking with my family in the morning. (well waking along an even paved path) We went through the mountains a little and took some pretty pictures... of course it didn't last long... as hiking with 4 year olds never does...

A friend of mine was with us becasue their family was along so we talked the whole time...

At Noon thirty we got back and i split for home... I had planed on going to a party with the other exchange students at butterfly beach... an hour and a half by mtr to get there... I had to stop at home to get my cell phone wich i thought i left...

it turns out that it must have fallen out of my pocket becasue it wasn't at home... so i'm probably going to have to buy a new phone tomorrow...

But i called up someone there and got directions... and met up with them. We all had a spiffing time there on the beach and talked untill we went home...

Today Wensday...

I think is yom kipur, just looked it up... it start's tonight and is officially tomorrow... but me and Gillie are going to check out the local synagog...

He seemed intrested and i was wondering if i could find any chinese jews soo that's what i'm doing tonight...

school's ok... but that's life...

more fun thing's comming up soon

Hope your all well

Patrick