tiny land

I have decided to call our apartment tiny land as everything is really SMALL...especially the tiny kitchen. Our shipment is now not going to arrive until September 1st so it will look kind of spartan until then. I

keep reminding myself that we have only been here a couple days and it will look better after a few trips to Ikea. I (Emily) can't really take shopping in large doses, so we make short trips. Hopefully in the new few days we will have internet at home, I am now on the 6th floor of the school, sitting at some random desk in the hall way.

So far fun or interesting things about Hong Kong:

1. We get torrential downpours that shut down the city (like snow days in other places). Our tour of the island was cut short because of a "black cloud warning", we all had to rush home.

2. HUMIDITY: not as bad as Bangkok but always makes for an interesting hair day. I think I may abandon straight hair in a couple days.

3. Living on campus feels a little like you are living in a college dorm (the good parts about living on a college dorm floor). We have been eating together, hanging out together, laundry at the end of the floor, sharing things....we actually like it.

4. The food has been amazing (and cheap)! We need to start caring around a transliterated menu with a few standard items on it so we can order without members of the school.

5. The staff and school ARE AMAZING. We feel very blessed to be part of the teaching staff.

6. Beautiful lush greenary

7. Airconditioned public transportation that is VERY organzied and getting to use our octopus card in a lot of places and for basically all public transportation (load money on a machine and you can use it to ride the metro and even buy toothpaste at the drug store).

The one thing I miss is dairy......a little hard to find but the school has an awesome cheese hook up so that will be nice.

Here are a few more pictures of our day today