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So today we said our goodbyes to the Chinese students who helped us and the Taiwan students because we were taking separate buses to immigrations---ONLY TO REALIZE that we didn't have to say our goodbyes just yet because we ended up arriving at immigrations at the same time anyways!! So after we RE-said our goodbyes again, we took a bus back to Hong Kong Island. Once we arrived to HK we got put in new rooms again. We also had to pickup our luggage we left off from 1 week ago. Then as soon as Tracy got the call from Tiny; me, Tracy, Maggie, Janice, Angela, Tiny, Kristine, and Nick left by subway to go to Disneyland (well actually Nick decided to go see the Big Buddha instead of Disney but he still traveled with us ... read more

Guangzhou 5 Well today we had our farewell dinner. I don’t want to dwell too much on the lectures since we only had a few more days left together. So we went to our farewell dinner and it was a little bit sad to receive our certificates of completion because for me, it further pointed out what limited time I had in china. Apparently it was unanimously decided that all of us were going to hit the club True Colors again. So literally like 30 of us grabbed like 10 taxi cabs and headed for the same place. ALL I CAN SAY IS: GREATEST NIGHT EVER! It was funny, fun, romantic (for some), sad for others… When I returned back with layla at around midnight or so, I made sure she told the taxi guy NOT ... read more

Today we were going to another village, only this time it wasn’t in the center of the city and was more than a 10 minute walk. We took a bridge into this tiny village that seemed both welcoming and confused at the same time. These two little girls were like little hellions the way they kept following us and screaming, laughing, and calling us “inhuman” (apparently because we weren’t Chinese and didn’t speak Chinese, so they kept saying how we didn’t speak ‘human’ language. I dint mind the girls too much until they began to interfere with our tour i.e. stealing Dr. To’s mike so that they could yell at us to not speak English. Then I thought, “hm…where the heck are their parents to get them out of here??”after another long boring lecture we took ... read more

Sun yat sen university is very large and hot. Today we had a tour of the campus and met all of our Chinese tour guides. The funny thing is, i remembered all of their names but couldn't remember whose name belonged to what face. At the end of lectures we all went to the mall to eat and for site seeing purposes. me, Layla, Dan, and Jackie all ate together at another Japanese restaurant. After eating we headed to the arcade floor. The arcade was a lot larger than it appeared from the outside, it had bumper cars dance games, drumming games, shooting games, sports games; EVERYTHING! At first I went in with a group of 4, Layla, Dan, Jackie, and myself but after Jackie left leaving me with Layla and Dan, I decided to ... read more

So we entered Macau today. We entered by ferry. It was about an hour long ferry. Once we entered Macau the first thing I noticed was that everything was trilingual. The instructions were in Cantonese, Portuguese, and English. It was so strange to see streets and buildings in Portuguese in Southern china. So we board a bus and head towards a fancy restaurant but meanwhile all you can see are casinos everywhere! And I mean EVERYWHERE. Every other building was a casino! This gaming industry in Macau was definitely no joke! So we eat at this fancy restaurant and after that head to our hotel. After that we had a lecture on gambling and “Macau the sin city”. I’m going to skip the lecture because in all honesty nobody paid much attention. I actually videotaped everyone ... read more