Yesterday shall be fixed in my memory forever as the day of shopping centre exploration. We started at Time Square, which was is on Hong Kong Island itself. It had 13 floors, and was filled with many many expensive designer shops. So that was a lot of window shopping! It was a great photo opportunity from the 13th floor though, I don’t think I’ve ever felt height-sick in a shoping centre before!!
After this we got a cool tram to another shopping centre. I was excited by the tram. It cost the equivalent of 13p, was made of wood and was very old and narrow. It took quite a while to get us to the other centre, but it was worth it! Much more fun that a bus or a modern tram.
The next shopping centre was called Pacific Place, and was amazing inside, gleaming and spacious and with fantastic displays. We also encountered the world’s friendliest cash point, which wished us a good day when Zoe withdrew cash from it! After lunch we looked in more shops, and wandered some more.
After we watched the sun go down over the harbour and took many pictures, we headed to the third shopping centre of the day. It was cool, undeground and seemed to go back for miles.
We headed home eventually and spent the evening in the flat. I started to read ‘Bleak House’ by Charles Dickens, and am loving it so far -very descriptive and rich in vocabulary. I had to read outloud because everyone else was singing songs from ‘high school musical’, a fact which perturbed me greatly. In the end I gave up reading and joined Zoe in colouring some mosaic patterns she’d bought earlier. The switch from Bleak House to colouring in amused me. We stayed up till about 3am doing that.
Today we woke up quite late and then headed to the airport to meet Zoe’s other 2 friends who are staying this week. We took them back to Yuen Long so they could drop off theit stuff, then we headed back into town for some tea. We headed to Zoe’s church, which is a western/anglican church. It was so so lovely to be in church, to be worshipping God and to meet with others in fellowship. It was like a breath of fresh air, an infusion of oxygen in a polluted atmosphere. I liked it very much.
After church we wandered around for ages in the night markets in central hk. There was loads of stalls and loads of people. was good to mooch around and look at all the different things, as well as dodgy people who wanted to tell us our fortunes!! After this it was time for home, and an evening spent writing and drinking hot chocolate – bliss!
