Blogs from Kowloon, Hong Kong, Asia - page 100

Holy Toledo! We are incredibly behind on the travelblog. And after we started off so strong! Maybe it's actually a good thing - vacation mode isn't supposed to involve any deadlines or guilt about the stuff you're not doing, right?! Anyway, enough remorse - time to put the nose down and blog away until we get caught up. I apologize in advance to you all if you get a barrage of emails notifying you that we've posted several new blogs. Consume them at your own risk (mainly to your productivity :) ... So, anyway, here's a little taste of our Hong Kong experience... We actually only spent two short stopovers there over the last few weeks, but it seemed like it deserved it's own "Honorable Mention". We first arrived back on March 20th, fresh off the ... read more

Several events have occurred in the past week that I’d like to share with my blog readers. On the 24th of March I was asked to participate in the quarterly meeting of the Disability Action Committee of the University of Hong Kong. After the committee members learned a little about me as I introduced myself, I was appointed for the entirety of my stay in Hong Kong to the Committee. This appointment was a great encouragement to me, since I have served on many such committees and/or boards in the States. I have a sense of what is expected of a member of such a body, and I hope I can both contribute to this Committee and, more importantly, learn from its members and the decisions they adopt. The DAC is a subcommittee of the Equal ... read more

I hear that the early flowers in Illinois are blooming and that predictions of severe blizzards were thwarted by other nature. I do miss the heady joy that sweeps through me at the heralding of spring when I live in a climatological zone that has four distinct seasons. Having the opportunity to live in the tropics for almost a year fills me with wonder too. I’d like to describe it for you. The weather is so much more mild here. Hong Kongers cancel engagements because of a little rain or increased windiness. I want to tell them about wading through snowstorms, shuffling along upon sheets of ice, and dawning layers upon layers of clothing to guard against artic winds. So, when they complain about a little misty rain, I just smile and thank God that I ... read more

Summary - Today is a very rainy day so we visited the Hong Kong Historical Museum. Here you find a permanent show over Hong Kong, called THE HONG KONG STORY. It starts with the geological situation of Hong Kong 400.000.000 years ago and goes to the year 2000. It is a great museum with lots of lightshows and you learn a lot of things about Hong Kong and her surroundings. The pictures are a impression of the museum. It is really fun to visit this museum. In the evening we went to Sha Tin Town Hall and visited the ballet THE WORLD OF SUZIE Wong. A fantastic ballet and show by the Hong Kong Ballet. Monkey and Bear. Lieve vrienden en vriendinnen, De laatste twee dagen is het weer helaas omgeslagen en is het behoorlijk regenachtig ... read more

Had fun in Hong Kong though not as much fun as the rest of asia. We stayed in Mong Kok which is on the Kowloon side (there are 2 main parts of Hong Kong seperated by the sea) in Hotel Concourse which seemed very posh compared to most of the places we've been staying! Patrices friend Charlene came to visit us which was really good. We did loads of shopping (shoes for about $50, which is about 4 pounds!) as it was our last stop in Asia so shoppings still cheap! We'd heard there was really good nightlife in Lan Kwai Fong so on our second night we got the tube to Kwai Fong but there seemed to be nothing there. We were asking everyone where all the nightlife and the restaurants were but no one ... read more