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I have a car!
And I drove all the way from Wye River to Melbourne all by myself, tehehee. I feel so proud and accomplished.
Though peak hour traffic is a nightmare, and scary.
Having a car makes me feel like I have so much freedom... I can go shopping any time I want to! Wheee, no more worrying about carrying stuff home! *dances*

I'm leaving tomorrow morning. I'm actually leaving. I find it strange that by tomorrow evening I'll be back in Melbourne, in my own place. Seeing family.

My time in Hong Kong is finally coming to a close. It's had its ups and downs, as all adventures do. These past months have been one of the longest stretches of time. Just four months, but I have ( Read more... )

I'm off to Yangshuo, China tonight. I'm going on an adventure! Yangshuo is this littlish town in southern China that has beautiful countryside and will hopefully be nice and peaceful. I'm going to be there until the 23rd ( Read more... )

I met a lecturer. She teachers about global migration, a sociology class ( Read more... )

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One of my classes over here is called Hong Kong and the World. It is a very interesting course. Every week there has been a different guest speaker talking about some topic. These people have come form diverse backgrounds, some are scientists, others politicians, a retired high court judge, and plenty of business people (because this is Hong Kong, ( Read more... )

I'm a very happy Australian right now. I lined up for about an hour to vote at the embassy today, and voting was worth it. Then I spent the rest of the night watching ABC on the internet ( Read more... )

Why do Uni buildings always have to be so cold?! Especially classrooms and the library. I can understand if a lecture was packed, all that body heat, but seriously, when does that ever happen? Maybe the first week, the rest of the time, there are always yawning spaces. Because the students sure haven't turned invisible. So for those of us that do ( Read more... )

Today I had to do an interview for my sociology class about migrants. So I and my research partner went of to have dim-sum with the lady we were going to interview. We arrived at the restaurant, full of Hong Kong people, Koen and I were the only Westerns there, and boy did we stand out. Koen's Dutch, and very tall and kind of blond, and well you ( Read more... )