Hong Kong Part 1: The Campbells at 7:39 AM

You guys, as many of you know I'm WAY BEHIND in my blog. This entry is about February, and it's uhhh, May. Yep, It's May. So this is my time to recommit. I'm going to try to bust out a lot of entries in the next month. We'll see how it goes. I'm hoping that if I don't people will start emailing me about being lazy. Also, I love your comments. I can't really respond because of the filtering system here, but I will in a couple months when I return to the states.

So! After Xia'men the time came for my final destination in my wondrous winter holiday backpacking extravaganza: Hong Kong. This is another one of those places that shows up in the movies sometimes and I just can't even comprehend how different it must be. Well, it was was pretty different, but ridiculously awesome. When I got to Hong Kong I headed for Lantau island where my good friend Sarah Campbell lives. I arrived at her apartment at 9pm and had one of those late night conversations with her and her husband that just make you glad you're alive. Little did I know I would have those multiple times a day for the next week. It's amazing how you run into people you know you were supposed to be friends with. Well the week was pretty fun. Sarah and her husband Eric can't have kids, so they adopted. As of now they have two awesome kids who speak fluent Cantonese and English. They were kind enough to let me sleep on their floor for a week before I helped the new teachers in my program find their way around Hong Kong. Sara showed me around for a week and helped me see some of the sights. She took me to the beach with her kids and overall it was awesome.

My students had told me that Hong Kong was too crowded. I expected to go there and find a huge city with out space. Which was sort of true. I found a big city, with a lot people, but I also found some of the coolest abandoned trails and beaches. It wasn't what I expected at all. It was clean, beautiful, huge, but it still had everything that I would want in a place to live. I probably won't live there, but I have tossed around the idea....

The pictures are of Sarah, her husband Eric, and their kids Cooper and Anderson. Totally awesome family.