Alan and I arrived in Hong Kong on Monday early afternoon. It was an quick flight from Xi’an but the temperatures are very different between the two cities. It is warm and humid here in Hong Kong – a nice change from Xi’an where it was freezing cold!
We are registered for the East Asian International Conference for Teacher Education Research. I’ll be speaking here this week as one of the presenters. I’ll be talking about the effectiveness of the Hocus Focus project and some of the general research data that we have already collected.
Today we had some time to do a little sightseeing as well. We packed in a lot of stuff in a short amount of time! Last night, we were able to take a taxi to The Peak to see the spectacular view of the city at night.
Afterwards, we met up with Katy and her boyfriend Martin for late dinner at a Thai restaurant in the Central district of Hong Kong. We worked with Katy on our first tour in Hong Kong in 2005 and she came to visit us in the States in 2006. It was great to see her again and we hope to get together on Friday as well.
Today, we caught the subway train to the Harbor, walked Nathan Road and the Avenue of the Stars, and still had some time to stroll through a couple of the Night Markets.
This was the one of two “stars” I recognized…the other was Bruce Lee.
Alan did a little Christmas shopping in the night markets and picked up some nice things. I made a single purchase of a pair of jeans. We had dinner in one of the local – very local – restaurants downtown for some authentic food. One we wrapped up, we caught train back to Shatin to our hotel…which has a very nice view of the park and river.
It’s an early day tomorrow so I’m off to bed soon.