Hong Kong Blog

Here are a couple new things I have done.

 Lion’s Rock

After spending so much time in an urban area, it’s nice to go out and do things outside of the city and without all the people. One of the ways we got out to see another side of Hong Kong was to hike up Lion’s Rock. The hike took about an hour and while most of it was paved and had stairs climbing to the top, the rest was just an incline. I think this was my favorite part of our trip so far. The view at the top was amazing and it was so cool to stand at the very top of the mountain we can see from our residence halls. There were a lot of local people climbing up and coming down from the top when we went and I couldn’t believe how easy some of them made it look! I consider myself to be in pretty good shape, but going up Lion’s Peak was very challenging. On the way down was much easier, but you had to be careful not to get going down too fast. We also saw monkeys on the trail while walking back down! It was really interesting to see monkeys instead of squirrels like in Bowling Green. Haha.

10,000 Buddha’s Monastery

This was the most interesting monastery we have been to yet, in my opinion. The monastery sits up on a hill and its quite a walk to the top. On the way up to the monastery, the trail is lined with golden (plastic) Buddha statues. Once you get to the monastery, there are Buddha statues lining the inside of the temple and all around the area at the top. There were so many! Also, each one had a different facial expression.

I thought this was interesting- Miley (my roommate from mainland China) told me that English teachers here recommend "Friends" and "Forest Gump" to help learn English. Huh, go figure. You'd think children's shows would be easier/better? Nope, apparently the shows are found funny to mainland students studying English and therefore help to retain the language. She says she loves both and she is also a big fan of CSI (the original). She just finished watching all nine seasons last week.