Friday night, Anna S., and I went to see the Sleeping Beauty ballet at the Hong Kong Cultural Center. We had bought our tickets about a month & a half ago, and couldn't believe that the show came upon us so quickly! It was a GREAT ballet - the dancing, music (all Tchaikovsky), costumes, and setting were fabulous & the show was 3 hours long, but it went by so quickly! The story was the same as the Sleeping Beauty we are used to in the states, but at the end, a few random characters such as Red Riding Hood & Puss-n-boots showed up, which we found to be a little weird. We figured it was because Sleeping Beauty is a fairy tale, and they needed to add more solos to the show :) I'm really glad we decided to get tickets as it was well worth it!
*Me with one of the costumes :)
*Ending scene where Sleeping Beauty & the prince get married!
Yesterday, OMIP (the study abroad office at Lingnan) organized a hiking trip in Tsim Bei Tsui, which is a marsh-type area where one can see many forms of wildlife. Unfortuntely, it was a rainy & foggy day, so we weren't able to see anything besides one pelican! It was still interesting because I was able to see another side of Hong Kong that is more quiet & not full of people! After our hike, we ventured off to Lau Fau Shan where there is a market full of many forms of dried seafood such as octopus, sea horses, squid, clams, & I even saw a two-headed fish!!! It smelled really bad!! I bought some sesame honey cashews - so yummy that I ate all of them in 1 day, haha!! Seafood is quite popular here because of HK's island status, but most of the seafood I've had here, especially squid, is really chewy & I don't understand why, hmmm!
*Anna S., me, and Natalie on our hiking tour
The next few weeks are going to be super busy since I'm getting to the end of the term - only 8 classes left of each course, so crazy! I have multiple presentations & papers due soon, yuckkkk!! Next weekend, I'm unfortunately probably going to have to take a break from sightseeing & get down to school business :( But, I think that's about it for now - until next time, love you all!!
New pictures added to album:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2097293&id=1490346167&l=c0724639f1
Props to spelling Tchaikovsky correctly =P now I;m a little upset I didn't go he's my favorite classical composer
ReplyDeleteWhy of course I would spell Tchaikovsky correctly, haha :) you should have came!!!
ReplyDelete