Last day in Mainland China. It took some serious doing to get everyone packed and pried out of their hotel rooms this morning.
Chaos reined with some leaving, some staying, different buses at different times. Goodbyes and tears from many.
We are leaving friends in China, for sure.
Then a MOUND of luggage went with 11 of us to go out of customs in China and into Hong Kong. Hong Kong has the unique status of no longer belonging to the UK, but not exactly belonging to China. The pile of suitcases was daunting as all of us had done some power shopping in China (although no one had managed to spend more than $600 or $700 dollars so far. This is really a cheap trip as nearly all of our food, transportation expenses, and hotels have been paid for. (Of course, we worked our hind ends off!!!!)
Anyway, we made it through customs, onto the subway, where three of our people didn’t make it off at the stop with their luggage in tow. They had to take it further on, get off and come back, but we were united again. Then we got the shuttle from the Universality of China at Hong Kong, where we are staying at their onsite guesthouse/hotel.
After arriving, I decided that I needed to stop, regroup and catch up on my blog posts…Jenny stayed back with me. We wrote and checked in with FACEBOOK (which you can access in Hong Kong!!!!!) I got nearly a week’s worth of posts up. Sorry for the people who got worried that I was super sick or something. The Internet was pretty iffy in Yangshou.
Walking around the campus was very interesting.
Could have been a major university anywhere. And the people pretty much all speak English. Yah!
AND they appear to have Western toilets in the bathrooms (complete with directions on how to use them….we might have forgotten since being in China.)
Resting while others went into the city was really fine. Tomorrow will be time enough to explore Hong Kong.
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