A weekend in HK!

So after our test on Thursday, we had class in the afternoon until 6. Which was brutal. All we wanted to do was go celebrate being finished with our exam. So, after class we rested and prepared to celebrate Thursday night in our favorite place... LKF! We headed out about 11:30 from I-house because some of our other people had to go to Sha TIn to a travel agency for a weekend trip, so we got started fairly late. At one club, I got on stage and danced while singing American songs with a Chinese band and some of my newest and closest friends (not drunk at all btw!). It was so fun... and then we ran into some ladies who were all wearing pink wigs and pink devil horns dancing in a club. We ended up talking to them and discovered that they had been in the Dragon Boat Festival the day before and were celebrating their participation and fourth place ranking! The night was fairly mild, yet fantastic like they all are here!

Friday was such an adventure. The day started out a little bit alter then normal because of the late night before. However, once awake a large group decided to head to Mong Kok to go to the infamous Ladies Market. When we first got there we actually went to yet another mall and had lunch. Chris and I are always searching for vegetarian friendly places and we found Curry in a Hurry... which was delicious. After that we played around in a World Cup promo area for a little bit and then decided to head to the Ladies Market... which was an experience. ABout five minutes in, a group of us decide to look for fake purses and find ourselves on the ninth floor of some rickety apartment building looking at a warehouse like room of fake Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs and so on. Needless to say we didnt bye anything bc it was kinda shitty but the experience was fun. We headed on down through the markets and I bought a lot of goodies. You have to haggle with everyone and it is so fun but also extremely tiresome. We got to watch what seemed like a real life infomercial and a lot of the guys bought a plastic bag sealer thingy from the Billy Mays of the Ladies Market. I bought an American flag sequined dress with my friend, Eva (you know, the crazy one). After a lot of the group split off to do their own thing, Chris talked me into a foot massage and we had a wonderful time sitting in big red comfy chairs with a a black cat walking around our heads and little Asian women banging the sh!t out of our feet. It was quite an experience... not sure I would go for it again bc I kinda felt like she was mad at me... banging on my legs and heels! it was pretty comical though and it got me ready for more shopping.... kinda! I actually bought some heels right after that and changed into them. Then Chris and I headed to the SOHO area on HOng Kong Island and found this fantastic Italian restaurant. We had a wonderful and very authentic Italian dinner and listened to some great old school AMerican jams while munching on pizza, creamed spinach, and soup! We had some wine and enjoyed taking a rest before meeting the rest of our group in LFK for the USA vs. Slovenia soccer game. We found a great little Chinese bar in the party district and set up shop in a corner in front of a big screen with a huge group of our fellow classmates. Eva and I quickly changed into our American flag dresses and had some help from Dow (sp? I think!), our new friend from Thailand that we met in the bathroom, getting ready. We then all watched the game and sang Journey during a commercial, chanted USA (many times), and went crazy when we got absolutely screwed at the end with the terrible call that lost us the game! We had a blast and formed bonds with the other USA fans... it was def memorable and a once in a lifetime experience. We then hit the streets in our party dresses and got a lot of attention bc of our attire and the game! Everyone danced and mingled with new people and then we all made it safely home and prepared for our next adventure!