HK Friends

I've had a lot of fun traveling this summer, and HK is no exception. I've made a lot of friends through church. And I also made a lot of friends through playing basketball at the courts next the church I'm staying at. One friend I had some chance to spend time with off the courts. His name is Man.

He's a real cool guy that is from Hong Kong. His parents both grew up here working on fishing boats as a part of the "boat people." Now his mom works at Ocean Park, along with him, and his dad works with a boating company. He is 19, just like me. Although he is finished with high school, he is still not yet in college. The system is different here so he still has to do some more schooling. Although life isn't easy, he has a really easygoing personality. I really enjoy being around him. His family isn't heavily religious but he says that occasionally he will go to the temple with his parents.

The other day, he took me around town a little bit. We first went and had some famous fish soup dish. It was delicious and different then anything I had had before. Then we went the Hong Kong Museum of History. I loved it there so much. We spent almost four hours there looking at all the great pictures and reading all the great information about Hong Kong through the many years. It was the best museum I have ever gone to. Not only was it informative, but lso quite fun. It had many interesting things that kept us entertained. Each section of the museum was designed differently according to what was happening at that time. aFor the Opium Wars, it was designed like a British street from colonial times and also there were many pieces of furniture and such. Another part from before then that was mostly Chinese had big Chinese statues that used to be paraded around in the streets. It was just fun to see all the different things. They really did a great job in this museum.
Later, we went to a couple of street markets. We went to the Ladies' Street and also to a goldfish street where fish and aquariums were everywhere.
It was funny to see but I really had no interest... haha. We took the bus home in order to meet up with more of Man's friends to play some basketball. It was all fun!

I'm really going to miss those guys. When I come back to Hong Kong someday, I'm going to give them a call to hang out. And they all have an open invitation to come stay with me in America!