However, not my poor (not proved) navigation skills are making this city to seem like a challenge to me. You won't believe how hot it is!!! Hot and at the same time wet. I have changed 3 t-shirts today, which became wet towel alike. I was bathing in my own juice until I decided to pay for a conditioner in my room. It has helped a lot, now I can sleep at least. However, the problem remains as if one wishes to go to the campus, one follows a nice way down the hill. BUT, to come back means to climb the hill, which just again makes ones body to sweat. By now I have the only plan to solve this issue - tour around the city in a swimming suit.
And still I like here, I think everything will solve out withing a week. You all know, I came here for a challenge and here it is - in front of me. When I just got out of the airport I was telling myself: "oh yeah, that gonna be fun :)".
Coming back to my trip, I just would like to mention that during last 2 days I slept around 5 hours, which is in my style. On Sunday I had to wake up at 3.30am as my flight to Helsinki was leaving at 6.45am. When in Helsinki, I could not sleep as I was sure that somebody will steal my luggage and this made me to become open-eyed for 10 more hours. So, being in airport I have read all the materials I had (reading skills update obtained) and being hungrary ate some raindeer meat :). I would like to say to all those concerned about animal killing that I don't care animals, the man is the boss and, viewing from different angle, I was so hungry that would eat even leather shoes. Afterwards I finally departed from Helsinki to HK, where spent 10h in flight. It was very inconvenient, food was strange and this caused me not to sleep again. Fortunately, there were LCD displays integrated into the seats, so I watched around 4 movies. Finally, I was so tired that fell asleep for some 30 minutes.
The first acquintance with HK already brought some challenges. I decided to take a bus to dormitories, which costs around 2.5-3 EUR. Firstly, I spent some 30 minutes searching the bus station. Secondly, I could not stay awake in the bus and hence almost missed the place. I did not understand where I am goind, there were no station names, nor announcements in the bus, which made me very confused. Having very sharp sight (half asleep, one eye open) I managed to spot the student residence and to get out of the bus (after having skipped some stops of course).
The rest of the day I spent dealing with practical stuff, like getting registed in the university, getting visa, enabling internet, buying beddings and some electricity stuff and throughout the lapse of this day communicating with other exchange students. Let's call the latter people semi-known friends as I don't remember names of any fo them :). Together we were out to eat as well and tasted some strange, but traditional chinese dishes, such as oysters (or a cheaper version of that), scary fish, strauss with small mushrooms (seem like "paganka"), meatless chicken and some more. The prices in HK are low and if compared to Riga one could get a decent meal much cheaper.
Some other impressions: people selling cheap stuff everywhere, living houses reach the sky, some rats and cockrouches on the streets, people seem to be helpful, food not bad.
So it is my confession for tonight, stay tuned and hear (+ hopefully see) more soon.
Yours,
Danielius
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