Finally...
I'm going to Hong Kong for (hopefully) a year. I (finally, after 7 years) leave super-early Monday.
Finally...
After exhausting the planning stage I am leaving Dorval airport Monday: 7:32 am for Hong Kong by way of Chicago and Tokyo. My first plane trip EVER is going to be 27 hours - imagine if I was going ALL THE WAY around the world - heh.
My aunt is letting me stay at her apartment in Kowloon (HK), it's on the 24th floor. It has three rooms. That's as much as I know for now. My other aunt (my mom has 6 siblings- typical chinese family minus the kung-fu lessons at age 1) is living in the same building. Should be a very interesting next few weeks - meeting friends and family of my parents. No doubt my parents want to live vicarously through me as I visit "places that I just HAVE to visit" but I imagine it would be...interesting. (Doug's parents met in Hong Kong 30 years ago while working in the Royal Hong Kong
Police -ed.)
The most daunting task is to find something, anything, that will provide exposure to decent Hong Kong life - to sustain me for the time I am there; which is hopefully one year.
I have a request to make of you;
E-MAIL ME YOUR MAILING ADDRESS
and
I WILL SEND YOU A POSTCARD from HONG KONG.
This is to prove that I actually am in Hong Kong.
I know I know my ("Communist") going-away party was over a month ago - but I've been making trips to Toronto and Ottawa and packing and making arrangements (such as moving out and packing stuff away). Unfortunately I did not get to Alberta and BC as I had hoped, but my fun long-time friend from Alberta came down to Montreal so that was a good surprise that saved me a trip.
The pictures from the Communist going-away party will be on-line SOON, I promise.
The pre-release of my grad pictures are on-line - thanks CRAIG and EMILY:
http://doug.pod.ca/grad
The arrangements for HK have been daunting to make, but the evident show of love, support and pride from my family for having graduated University (I am the first in the WHOLE family - both sides) has been whelming. Adding to that my proposed venture halfway around the world has made it too whelming - perhaps - "over"-whelming.
My work experience, academic pursuits, personal explorations, and the honesty and love of my friends have brought me here. It is time to know what it is like to be on the other side - to not speak the local language, to be from elsewhere, and not have it so easy. To know happiness one needs to know suffering, and to know blissful ignorance, one needs to see what is gone from what is taken for granted. Is that culture shock? I'll tell you in time.
Thank you for your continued support.
Sorry if I did not deliver final salutations - you'll see, the time goes by fast.
Douglas Wai-Chung
Brossard - at my parents' on the South Shore of Montreal
Finally...
After exhausting the planning stage I am leaving Dorval airport Monday: 7:32 am for Hong Kong by way of Chicago and Tokyo. My first plane trip EVER is going to be 27 hours - imagine if I was going ALL THE WAY around the world - heh.
My aunt is letting me stay at her apartment in Kowloon (HK), it's on the 24th floor. It has three rooms. That's as much as I know for now. My other aunt (my mom has 6 siblings- typical chinese family minus the kung-fu lessons at age 1) is living in the same building. Should be a very interesting next few weeks - meeting friends and family of my parents. No doubt my parents want to live vicarously through me as I visit "places that I just HAVE to visit" but I imagine it would be...interesting. (Doug's parents met in Hong Kong 30 years ago while working in the Royal Hong Kong
Police -ed.)
The most daunting task is to find something, anything, that will provide exposure to decent Hong Kong life - to sustain me for the time I am there; which is hopefully one year.
I have a request to make of you;
E-MAIL ME YOUR MAILING ADDRESS
and
I WILL SEND YOU A POSTCARD from HONG KONG.
This is to prove that I actually am in Hong Kong.
I know I know my ("Communist") going-away party was over a month ago - but I've been making trips to Toronto and Ottawa and packing and making arrangements (such as moving out and packing stuff away). Unfortunately I did not get to Alberta and BC as I had hoped, but my fun long-time friend from Alberta came down to Montreal so that was a good surprise that saved me a trip.
The pictures from the Communist going-away party will be on-line SOON, I promise.
The pre-release of my grad pictures are on-line - thanks CRAIG and EMILY:
http://doug.pod.ca/grad
The arrangements for HK have been daunting to make, but the evident show of love, support and pride from my family for having graduated University (I am the first in the WHOLE family - both sides) has been whelming. Adding to that my proposed venture halfway around the world has made it too whelming - perhaps - "over"-whelming.
My work experience, academic pursuits, personal explorations, and the honesty and love of my friends have brought me here. It is time to know what it is like to be on the other side - to not speak the local language, to be from elsewhere, and not have it so easy. To know happiness one needs to know suffering, and to know blissful ignorance, one needs to see what is gone from what is taken for granted. Is that culture shock? I'll tell you in time.
Thank you for your continued support.
Sorry if I did not deliver final salutations - you'll see, the time goes by fast.
Douglas Wai-Chung
Brossard - at my parents' on the South Shore of Montreal
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