To my astonishment, I once again find myself on the fringe of Friday. Where did the week go? The advantage of a busy work schedule: weekends magically appear. Seriously though, I feel like I am in a time vortex here. Must mean that I am having fun, right? The downside is that I haven't gotten a chance to do much touristy stuff yet. I really want to go back to Lantau and see the big Buddha. And I want to go hiking in the new territories. And I want to eat at a bazillion restaurants. All in good time.
Tomorrow I will conduct the first weekly English radio hour broadcast at the secondary school where I teach. I am really excited even though it will be mostly cheesy pop music that will be played. I selected some songs that students told me were their favorite and I have made up a DJ script for the students to use. It seems as though there isn't much of a rock or indie scene in HK although there will be a Gorillas concert here in December (Becci and I want to go!). Mostly the kids listen to J-pop, K-pop, and anything in the American top 40. I could be wrong though and there may be secret Vampire Weekend or Aqua Lung fans hiding in the shadows.
I have also noticed that there is a culture-wide love of anything cute in Hong Kong. Even the teachers use Hello Kitty pens and have cartoon puppy dogs with hearts as their computer backgrounds (male and female). The secondary students, even the older ones, are also very immature and socially awkward (of course there are exceptions). I would say that they are about three years behind socially and two years ahead mentally.
Ugh, it's past my bedtime! Enjoy the picture of my street above!!!
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