Once a week-  that seems like about enough time to warrant a post. Perhaps I'll try to keep up that pace for the rest of my time here. Every day here brings new challenges and surprises...

I've decided that I quite like being a minority in Hong Kong. Or, as my black friend Julie tell me, I quite like being a 'white' minority, as we are the pinnacle of perfection across the world. I've noticed it myself though- all throughout Hong Kong I can see advertisements for face-whitening products and eyelid surgeries (eyelid mutilations, more like it). It's not a sense of superiority that I enjoy here, but rather a sense of the esoteric. Small children stop and stare at you in the super market. A few days ago I had the following conversation when a little boy started to stare at me on an escalator:

Child: Where are you from?

Me: I'm from the United States of America.

Child: What is it like there?

Me: It's very nice. It's not much like Hong Kong at all though, the building are much too short.

Child: Really? Hong Kong is not like the rest of China. It is very poor there.

Me. So I've been told though. I have yet to see it myself though.

Child: Well I have to go follow my mom now. Goodbye! (waves vigorously).

Me: Goodbye!

I like being able to offer someone, anyone, another perspective on the world, no matter how briefly. 

Tonight was another wonderful experience. One thing I've noticed about people here in Hong Kong is that they don't seem to have any vices. No drugs, no booze, no nothing. But a few kids on my hall expressed an interest in having a 'house party' on the floor. So tonight Greg, Mike, Pat, and myself bought a bunch of gin and tonic and taught the floor how to play Kings. I've never really liked Kings, but I had the most fun playing it tonight. The best was the 'bust 'a' rhyme' card, where the Hong Kong kids tried to rhyme in English:

Mandell: I'm scared of rats.

Asian Elvis: When I see him (points to left) I attack!

Asian Sirius: But the I have to be flat!

Asian Colin: I want to swim, but I'm afraid to get wet.

Throughout this whole ordeal, the four of us were just laughing, and so happy that we decided to ditch LFK for a night of drinking with real locals. 

They loved it too. In return, they taught us a couple of Hong Kong drinking games like 'School' and 'Bing Bang Waaaaa!' Also, at 3 AM they took us down to Kennedy Districk for Dim Sum. It was wonderful and tasty. And cheap. For 7 of us it came to about $22USD. 

What else... I went to Macau, and wandered around Hong Kong a while ago. Bought a bass guitar. But eh. Maybe I'll write more about that later. It's almost six in the morning here though, so I'm gonna call it a night.