It seems to be high maintenance - water and roads, slopes are constantly being ripped up and redone. This can be quite convenient in small roads where two directions need to be managed through one working lane.
The lecturer often starts class with fewer than ten people. One class started with two people. Another class often sees attendance of about eight, however twenty-four students showed up for the test.
When I say I'm from Australia, some local students exclaim "but you're not white."
There seems to be a bit of a bad habit people of not moving themselves and things aside. In computer labs people leave chairs in the middle of thoroughfares.
There's a bit of an assumption that I can't use chopsticks because I come from a western country and so a knife and fork is offered strongly.
Students can get money at the following sources and rates:
30 per hour from sales
160 per hour from tutoring
High-school students can enjoy fast-food for lunch due to the proximity of just about everything.
Some people here are so vain/fashionable that they'll wear glasses frames with no lenses.
I've been told that the correct way to identify a Hong Konger from a mainlander is by the messiness of their hair.
Books may be borrowed for two months at a time with five renewals:- that's one year in total. However, they are subject to recall after the first fourteen days.
They have help alarms in the female toilets!
actually i know two people here who wear frames without lenses...one does it at work and almost a year down the track there were still people saying they'd only just noticed that fact...
ReplyDeleteHave you asked them why they do it?
ReplyDeletehahahahaha @ the following:
ReplyDelete-When I say I'm from Australia, some local students exclaim "but you're not white."
-knife and fork is offered strongly.
-messiness of their hair
160 per hour is great!
omgg u can so get the girls by knowing how to eat with choptsicks.
ReplyDeleteSee what happens when you start interacting with the locals!?!?!? interesting things start to pop up:):):)
ReplyDeleteand congrats on the uh...budget haircut...keep going and you won't be coming back alone:)
Lol, these were cumulative observations that have been collected since the last roundup. :P
ReplyDelete... to your second line and to Toe.