Settling in

So today is the day that school starts for most people....but for me it's not quite yet, due to an interesting schedule! So I've got basicily two more days to just hang around, get used to the place and eat great food :P
So far I've been going a little all over the place...on friday we had the orientation, but because there was so much information most of it went in one ear and out the other. So after the orientation and "tour" of the campus we headed out to IKEA with Christoph, Hanna and David, since Christoph and Hanna had only just arrived and we all wanted to get some equipment for our rooms. On the way to Ikea I noticed this weird thing by the MTR escilators, a device making a constant rattling noise...found out that it's a system to help the blind people get around and know where to go! Cleaver I say - can't remember seeing or hearing of anything like it in europe.

Earlier in the week I had agreed to meet up with a family friend, Ben for lunch on saturday. So we went to eat in Crystal Jade in IFC close to Central station, there we had some awsome dumplings and peanut butter noodels - witch were both suprisingly delisious! After lunch went to pick up the five year old son James and whent to Victoria Peak to see a view over the city. Came down on the tram and got back to the halls just in time to get ready for the "exchange students bbq-night". There was supposed to be plenty of food and drink - but run out of both before we had transport to get out from Clearwater Bay at 2200, and it was freezing cold out there! Maybe 7 degrees celcius whith a cold wind - not good!


Anyway since the bbq was a bit of a let down, we decided to go check out the nigtlife in Lan Kwai Fong. Pretty much everything in HK is small, no exeption with the bars and clubs either, so the thing to do seems to be that you get your drink from 7-11 and hang out in the street whilst music blasts out from the tiny clubs on street level. Oh yeah and all the shops / bars ext. don't have doors around here, just an open front. As the last place to explore on saturday, we went to a club called Pi...it was on the 28th floor with really loud music and awsome views.
The highlight of sunday was an Japanese restaurant called Watami, where we went to whith Christoph. We had to wait around maybe 20 minutes to get in, but oh boy was the wait worth it - every single mouthful, from the citrus cola to the double chocolate brownies with ice cream and from the scallops fried in butter to the japanese omelette were all like a lil' bite from heaven sending shivers through my body with pure delight time and time again. And the best part of it all was that it cost only 300 HKD for the both of us, can't wait to go there again :P

That should be all for now....gonna be doing some plans tomorrow for the chinese new year, when we have a whole week with no lessons, thinking about going to the philipines! :D