Local Visitors

Showing some locals skin on the MacLehose trail in Sai Kung park.  Both Evan and Ryan love hiking, that's why they're super stoked; you can tell by their faces. Ryan is even showing the back of his index finger, which in Sai Kung is a popular way of saying, "This is wholesome fun" (in Chinese of course). 

Don't think that because these three guys are business majors that they aren't ready to join the Occupy Hong Kong crowd. You can see Evan feels right at home with these counter beat Cantonese campers chilling
under the HSBC building. 

Pearl Sea (Zhuhai) 珠海

Lance looks at a scale model of Zhuhai. 

Last weekend I met up with a couple friends from college, Lance and Ryan, in China. Technically Hong Kong is part of China, but it depends in what context you make reference. Usually the Hong Kongers refer to everything else in China as "Mainland."

Zhuhai is the name of the city where we met up. It's a relatively new city in the Canton province, nestled on top of Macau, the Las Vegas of China. Over the past ten years this city has been exploding with growth. There are all sorts of new divisions and developments going in, one of which is supposed to a miniature replica of Shanghai.  It's alive with cranes and concrete. I got the feeling that if I threw a pole on the ground it would grow into a lamp, or if tossed a piece of trash on the sidewalk, a 7-Eleven would appear––it was similar to Narnia in this sense, when Narnia was being created in The Magicians Nephew. (And yes, there were plenty of minotaurs and dwarves running around, at least, enough to make you on edge).

Ryan's dad works in Hong Kong and he treated us teachers like kings. We spent most of the weekend eating or getting our bodies massaged, or in Lance's case, both at the same time.