Saturday, July 5, 2008

Yesterday was my day off and I did some shopping and some site seeing. We went to some outlet stores, actual stores not sketchy streetside shops. Seeing that it rains a lot here I finally bought some rain gear. I got a really nice lightweight waterproof colombia rain jacket, it was about $40US, but still better price than back home. I got some skirts and stuff too. I didn't pack enough shorts and stuff but the asian shorts and pants sizes are way too small, so I have to do with skirts. After those outlets we went to Koloon, it is part of the New Territories in Hong Kong. It is not actually an island I think; I believe it is attached to mainland. I bought a very nice camera in Koloon. It is a Olympis 8mp waterproof up to 3meters and shock resistant. Seeing that I broke 3 digital cameras already from dropping them or getting them wet i figgured I should just invest in one that is shock resistant and waterproof.

After shopping and spending a lot of money we went to a temple. It was beautiful. The buildings were amazing and they were surrounded by a stream and pond filled with turtles and awesome looking fish. Then in the main temple they dive you a container of sticks and you kneel on a mat in the temple and shake the sticks while you think about a question. There are numbers on the sticks so you shake the container till one stick falls out then you remember the number on it and each number has a meaning and then you can get it translated and they tell you what it means related to your question. It was pretty cool.

Now that I have a camera I will try to add more pictures soon

1 comment:

brianinyou said...

hey meg,

I'm really sorry that I missed you before you left. When I went to call you back i realized i didnt have your number on my phone cause i lost all my numbers recently and it wasnt even on my missed calls cause it was off when you called. So, poo!! The journal is a good idea, i plan to keep up with you on it. Youre living the experiance of a lifetime, hope youre having fun so far.

Brian