Tuesday Night

Being on business school exchange in Hong Kong is exactly that - it is not "study abroad" - it is simply exchange from one side of the pond to the other. There is very little study and very little pressure to study. Instead, on a Tuesday evening when most of the world has an early bed time to be refreshed for a Wednesday working day, 5 business school exchange students in Hong Kong proceed on a night of drunken debauchery in LKF. Through researching the previous night's texts later the next day, we discover that our bed time was approximately between 5:00 and 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning. So much for studying...Here are a few highlights from the evening.

For those not in-the-know, LKF is Lan Kwai Fong (sp?), a neighborhood composed of a few streets in the larger area of Central on Hong Kong Island. It is a landscape of bars and clubs where drunken escapades can be had every night of the week. It is also centrally located for most of my crew on exchange and quite close to our evening classes (we might not study, but we put up pretense by making a show at class). LKF has an atmosphere that blends Stone Street in Lower Manhattan and the French Quarter. The night starts as if on Stone Street and ends as if on the French Quarter. On weeknights Western bankers (the majority of the crowd) are in their suits sans jacket and tie. Lady bankers are in business dress, of the type that demonstrates sex appeal after hours. (I'll post pics later)

Regarding race in Hong Kong, it surprised me how many Westerners live here. Many more than I expected. Wikipedia doesn't give me the exact number, but I see them everywhere. So, it's China but it's also still a British isle in a sense. This is mostly true for one part of Hong Kong. There are other parts of Hong Kong where there are very few, if any, Westerners (more on that later).

Who are those crazy, drunken fools in the photo? Those are my exchange friends. Since I have yet to receive their permission for exposing them on my widely read blog, I will withhold names. Needless to say, it was an amusing evening.

(As an aside, we also appreciate the real culture of Hong Kong, but this particular evening was worth memorializing. Highlights of our hikes, dim sum adventures and travels to come...)