Its been an exciting, amazing, fun filled, breath taking, memorable, crazy, full, packed year, to say the least!!! And I'm so glad to be home, its been a full year : ) I just couldnt wait to see my mommy, and sisters and brother(thanks so much for the calls and cards...i missed u all too) and Family (my nephews and niece have grown so much!!!) and to go to my church (Mrs Adisa has been such a mentor as a choir leader), to see my FRIENDS... honestly I cant thank you all enough for just being there, not to forget PK [View Full Entry]

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Top 10 Check List: *1. Being able to pronounce the various districts in Hong Kong, Tsim Tsa Tsui, Hung Hom, Mong Kok… and knowing how to get to the best 'coin cache' in HK. Learning to bargain at the wet markets of Hong Kong and only getting cheated as other locals do. *2. SCHOOLING in HONK KONG, and not freaking out when the teacher and students breakout in Cantonese! *3. Travelling through 6 provinces in China and now knowing where next I want to go in China, and being confident enough in my Mandarin to travel alone…amazing memories. Learning [View Full Entry]

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Research tour in Guangzhou One of my courses organized a field trip visit to some start up companies and well established factories. For instance: the biggest Soya sauce/cooking sauce/spices manufacturer in China to study there production processes, fermentation tanks, etc. We visited yeast factories, pharmaceutical manufactures, bioremediation and phytoremediation companies. We were so well received (it was there that I finally learnt how to play majo). Indian Conference & Spice (pictures of India will be on my next, final, blog) India was just something else, I do [View Full Entry]

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The past few months have been very packed, with my finals, a trip to Thailand, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and a visit from my mommy here in Hong Kong. It’s a bit overwhelming to think of writing a blog about my experiences, so to be honest I’ve decided just to put up some pictures, a few comments maybe a story or two…and that should be more than enough reading! As I meet you all again we’ll definitely sit down and chit chat some more on what you’ve been up to and more of my crazy stories of Asia are bound to [View Full Entry]

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After mazeing through the noisy, busy streets and feeling like a little bee in one of the billions of concrete honey comb quarters, at last, mostly durring weekends, I’m discovering all the rest of Hong Kong; the mountains, and beaches, and forests, and islands,…………………… Here are a few pictures that should fill in the blank: . . . [View Full Entry]

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English Names Most Chinese, apart from their original names get English names while in their teens. They expect non-Chinese to be unable to pronounce or retain their names (I try but full names are hard). The other day, a friend of mine explained that it was his English teacher from Australia that gave him his name “Lackla” after a lake in Australia. So everyone introduces themselves to foreigners immediately by their newly selected English names: Candy, Sincere, Nicole, Joy, James, etc; At one of the cultural events, some one pointed out that my name said in Chinese (the [View Full Entry]

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I really thank God for the privilege of today! Sitting in front of the window of my residence room I’m starring out at the 7am traffic. My body is still jet-lagged and so I wake up really early ( 5 or 6am). The residence I’m in is said to be the most luxurious res. In Hong Kong ! They just built it but charge the same price : ) Thus far I’ve been learning some Cantonese, most are so shocked when I speak the little I know. However, Mandarin is what I really want to learn and thus far my Japanese [View Full Entry]

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Check List: *Praying more and more *Vaccinations Done *Residence Booked *Visa and Ticket gotten *Bags being packed at the moment *Fees to be paid * Courses registered for * and hoping I'm not forgetting anything! Destination: info from CIA website Hong Kong has more than 200 islands Brief History: Occupied by the UK (The British) in 1841, Hong Kong was formally given up by China the following year; various adjacent lands were added later in the 19th century. Pursuant to an agreement signed by China and the UK on 19 Dece [View Full Entry]

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