Today I witnessed the Hong Kong Marathon. SUPER COOL. It made me miss running like no other :( I'm not even sure if I was witnessing the half marathon or the marathon finishing, but all and all I just completely wanted to be out there. I don't know how my parents stood at the finish line for so many races for four years, seriously, it's soo loud and you just stand there. Ahh I wanted to be running. Before the race though, Caitlyn and I got to take a picture with the President of our University who was super excited to meet us :) YEY! Since PolyU had an official team for the marathon we got to stand with a bunch of the other kids from the residence halls with PolyU tambourines (which I stole one. SHHH), those little inflatable sticks, and wear really really really awesome FREE T-Shirts! Now, as an NC Student, it is obviously my goal in life to get as many free t-shirts as possible. But, this one goes beyond all expectations. It's a really nice dri-fit Nike like running shirt. I am beyond impressed. Plus, it says PolyU Running Team on it. It is probably going to be one of my best souviesI could really use to do some homework.
Haha seriously, I actually have a lab report due on Tuesday as well as a quiz and a presentation tomorrow. It's so hard to get in the studious mode though when you basically feel like you're on vacation. More importantly, I went to some old temples yesterday! Very culturally enriching.... would have been better had it not been raining and it had been about twenty degrees warmer. Have I mentioned lately that they do not use heat in the buildings here? I think they should mention that somewhere on the application.
Since my last blog I have accomplished many things including, but not limited to,wearing eyeliner, hiked up multiple mountains, ran a mile finally in the hall gym, and had about a thousand meetings for the group projects that I am involved in. I've discovered that instead of going to class, here at PolyU we just have group meetings for all of the semester long projects that are involved in every single class. I really am capable of doing work on my own, but here it is definitely all about group work.In my global fashion marketing lecture we talked for basically two hours straight about Chinese culture and I must say I learned a lot about why Chinese people act the way they do and why this might seem odd to those of us who aren't Chinese. They have this big thing about "face culture," meaning that it's very important to appear the status you aspire to be. Therefore in China, it's more important that everyone on the street know that you are carrying a designer bag than it is for you to actually have a good quality bag. They're also huge about gifts... apparently for every festival. Thus leading to my next subject -
It's apparently necessary for men in Hong Kong to buy their date massive flower bouquets for American Valentines Day, Chinese Valentines Day, and every day in between. It is also necessary for said date to carry these flowers around for the entire evening. Perhaps the more flowers you have the more "face" you have. Anyway, when you're trying to navigate your way through the streets and around H&M and you have to trip over all of these couples with holding the florist shop in their hands you tend to get annoyed. Especially when they walk slow.... and proceed to make out on the moving sidewalks in the MTR station. I swear I'm really not trying to whine here...but really? Valentine's Day did include a nice reception for the International Students where wine and free refreshments were included so I can not complain.
I have so many things that I am planning to do and so many things I have already done.
The end.
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