The Hong Kong blog: laundry issues...

I'll start out today's post with Erin's dessert choice from dinner last night. Of all the selections in the ice cream drawer, this is what she chose. A "Lam Lam jelly stick". How on earth that sounds appealing and delicious, no clue. It was definitely strange...the inside of the popsicle was peach colored jelly...she threw it away. I don't blame her.

Lam Lam jelly stick...Erin thought this sounded good?

It was much more humid here today than it has been. When I took my camera out to take pictures the lens immediately fogged up.

view from my window this morning.

Class was fun today! We were split up into groups and assigned a global brand to discuss. I was in group "Coca Cola". Each group had one of the native students in it. It was interesting to hear their perspectives about each brand based on marketing efforts and popularity in the Asian market.
After class three of the Chinese students offered to show us where the supermarket was on campus so we could buy laundry detergent since it was laundry day. The campus store had just about everything we could need during our short stay in Hong Kong. The students offered to take us to one of the better canteens on campus for lunch. I was so relieved to see hot dogs and cheeseburgers on the menu! Thank goodness we made friends in our class that knew their way around. Lunch was great. We talked to them about American actors and singers they listen to. They all love Lady Gaga and were extremely jealous when I told them I had been to one of her concerts. She has never been to Hong Kong for a concert. They also showed each of us how to write our names in Chinese.

rows and rows of cashews at the market

Chinese hotdog, Erin had already claimed the cucumbers

my name in Cantonese

teaching the Chinese students how to hook 'em!

After lunch it was laundry time for the week. Our laundry situation here is a bit strange. We are only allowed to use the washers and dryers for three hours at a time twice a week. This means that we have to combine and share washers with other group members. Erin, Faith, and myself shared one washer and dryer. The Chinese do not traditionally use dryers so we had to pay to use them. They hang everything on hangers outside to air dry. When we got our clothes back out of the dryer, everything was still soaking wet! We took the t-shirts and other items out that could air dry and paid for a second round of dryer time...this was a little bit frustrating. The laundry room was pretty cool though. It's located on the roof of our dorm. There is a beautiful view of part of the campus from there!