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This time I'll start from bad and will move on to good.

So...there are a few things I want to complain about...

First of all life in the student halls. The local people are crazy! They never sleep at night!

I wouldn't complain unless they had those posters "quiet between 24.00 and 7.00"all over the building! I can understand that this is the place where students live, but usually the loud nights are on Fridays and Saturdays, here it's every night! These students start running around the corridors and screaming after 12pm. If they stay at someone's room to play some board games, they never close the door. + they don't really talk, they scream!!! I start to wonder if they are actually able to talk with a normal voice... If they stay in a common area, they seem to forget that it has doors as well... But staying in the common area is not the most popular activity among them.

On some floors they play with the gums which shoot plastic bullets.... and when do you think they do it? Right! After 12pm!!! Of course!

One exchange student once ran out of his room to calm them down. But he wasn't very successful - all the locals ran inside their rooms and closed the doors. Like in a kindergarten, seriously! When he told them: come on, let's talk, noone came out (hehe).

Yesterday a girl came and knocked on our door around 12pm to invite us to some stupid volleyball game. And it was Wednesday evening, which means everyone has classes next day.

Why can't they do these things earlier???

Another thing which freaked me out: on the pantry the cookers don't accept my frying pans!=( It's because of the surface. It just doesn't detect it or smth like that. So now I can through them away or will have to return to the shop and exchange/return them.

OK, I let it all out, now I can concentrate on some positive things that happened here.

The other day I had a lot of fun with other exchange students while dancing with Matt (from the famous youtube videos "Where the hell is Matt?". He came to HK and gathered a huge crowd of people wanting to take part in his new video:)

So maybe my jumping head will appear in his new video in a year or so ^_^

We also asked him to make a video with only him and PolyU exchange students (we were a big crowd, fans haha). I almost fell down on that one, not mentioning that I hit the guy standing next to me, great vid!!

It's somewhere on Facebook.

So what else?

I met some Spanish speaking students. They, my local friends and I try to meet each week. Last time we went to a Mexican restaurant. Next time we'll go to the place where they have the biggest pizza in Hong Kong and we gonna order that pizza! And will also try to eat it all... We'll see what happens ;)
On this photo we tried to make a group photo, but some random people decided to join us. Soho on a Saturday night, what to say? O__o

Looks like tutoring is possible here. There are a few people interested in learning Russian and English.

Next week will show if it all works out.

There is something that I love about this city! It is actually pretty international, like I heard before coming here. You just need to know the places and the time (evenings). In central I found my favourite Chimay and soon will check out the Belgian Bar. Wow. In Hong Kong. Crazy. It has everything. Maybe one day I'll go to that Russian restaurant I saw in Central as well. Interesting to see how Russian it is, because the "Russian Borsch" which they have all over HK is actually just a tomato soup. Ridiculous!  ;)

Yesterday went to the Lunar New Year fireworks. They lasted for 23 minutes! Crazy! This were the most expensive fireworks I've ever seen in my life! I think from now on I will never again go to the fireworks in St.Pete. Why should I disappoint myself?=) I heard someone saying it costed the city 7 million Euros... 

Here's the youtube version of what was there. Captured 20 minutes out of all 23.



The day before the fireworks there was a parade. Extremely boring and  very bad organised! Between the groups sometimes there were pauses of 10 minutes or so. We left before it ended. Some of us were too hungry.

As I mentioned before, last week I was ill. So not much to say about that week. But one thing is worth mentioning. There was an event called City Hunt. There were 5 teams: mix of local and exchange students. We were given small booklets with tasks. 6 sections. Each task gives you points. If you accomplish all task from one section, it gives you extra points. My team was pretty chilled, were just enjoying our time, not trying to get the highest point... Well... and we did not=) But I enjoyed that day so much. Even though I was still rather ill. The picture on the right shows me being suspicious about that turtle jelly... Don't even ask how they make it! I personally don't wanna know! ;))

I also tried the stinky tofu! It actually tastes normal. But I don't find it anyhow special, so I don't think I will become a fan of it...
Most of those weird things we tried in the part of the city called Mong Kok. There are loads of street snacks... And you won't find hotdogs there! At least not easily ;)
When you suddenly feel as if somewhere nearby the sewerage got broken - know that you are very close to the stinky tofu! Don't be afraid to try it. That's the best part of travelling. You get to find some strange local things, food or places.

Like the one I went to yesterday after the fireworks. It is THE place to go if you are in HK!!! It is called Chungking Mansions. One of the couchsurfers went to one the local Indian restaurants many times and knew the place well. You first go inside the big arch of the building. The people, who work there lead you, because the competitors can easily drag you to their place ;). Then you walk up the stairs, where the windows are non-existent anymore - just some pieces left, reminding that some time ago they were there. The experience is amazing! You just have to be there. Then you come to the restaurant, wait till they find seats for 17 people (CSers... ;)). And OMG! They have my favourite masala tea and chicken curry and chicken masala and what not!!!! Food is just a-ma-zing! I felt like home there ;))) Mostly because of my big love to that Indian restaurant in St.Pete ;).
Today some exchange students and I are going to watch some movie in the common area of my floor, which BTW has a huge Plasma TV. Hehe, when I first saw it I was pretty shocked...;) So that's where I am going now!