Yesterday was probably the hottest day I have ever experienced in my life! I am surprised I survived it. I believe the heat with the humidity and all that it was about 46 degrees. I would walk for 30 seconds and be sweating like I just ran a marathon, and I was told that wasn't even that hot, apparently it gets hotter! Anyway, so yesterday I wandered around, looked at some shops and then took out my camera and snapped some pictures, which I will put up later. There is this art exhibit going on in Times Square, which is about a 2 minute walk from my apartment, and they have statues made out of old tires and stuff, its really cool! After taking pictures it was getting to hot for me, so I stopped by Joe's cafe and hung out there for awhile. I left my camera there and me and Judy, Joe's wife, went out and bought Joe a cake (we went for his birthday supper yesterday, but his birthday is today). After that, she showed me around this area where its streets and streets of different shops and stuff, it was really cool. We went buy an area that was all designer, chanel, louis vuitton, miu miu and all that stuff! After shopping around for awhile, me, Joe, Judy, Judy's sister Yumee, her husband Andy, and his sister and brother, (I don't remember their names), went out for supper for Joe's birthday at a Nepal restaurant. To my surprise it was actually quite tasty! After that me Joe and Judy walked around the area for a bit and then went home! Here are some fun facts I learned yesterday about Hong Kong:
1. "Cold" in Hong Kong is about 15 degrees... I would say shorts weather at home in GP? ;)
2. Nobody drives a crappy vehicle, they just seem not to exist here. Most people roll around in a Mercedes Benz, no big deal right? Also, I have seen Ferrari's and last night a Maserati, they were soo nice!
3. All of the Nissan vehicles I have seen here so far do not exist in Canada
4. They drive on the other side of the vehicle
5. They do not stop for pedestrians, so you have to look both ways before you cross, for real, or you'll get flattened.
6. Since they don't stop for vehicles, before you cross the road, if you look down, it says "Look Right" or "Look Left", whichever pertains to the way the traffic goes!
7. There is more shopping here than you could ever imagine, everywhere you go there are stores and you could be in an area with old buildings and areas where it isn't the nicest, then BAM, there's a brand new Levi's store right in between.
8. They have double decker buses here, its cool
9. The last one I can think of for now.... You know how in GP the police drive those older, long white cars that no one else but the police drive? Yea, well here in Hong Kong, the police all drive Mercedes Benz's!! What the heck right?!

Hong Kong

After Calgary, we headed to Edmonton to visit family before I left Canada. I left on Wednesday at 11:40 am and didn't arrive until Thursday at 8:00 am, which in Hong Kong is 10:00 pm. The time difference is 14 hours, talk about jet lag! So I arrived in Hong Kong, where I met a family relative/friend and him and his wife took me to my apartment. Turns out the cafe he owns is not to far from my apartment, so I can just walk there whenever I need to, it is quite handy. The time difference was not fun, I didn't fall asleep until the early hours of the morning and woke up not long after. I have 2 roomates, both from Russia. One is 17, her name is Dasha and the other 16, her name is Yulia. They both seem pretty nice so far, but we haven't really talked much yet. My room is sooooo small too! It fits a bed and my clothes, and then a minimal amount of space to move around. We have a couch, a tv, a table and chairs, a small bathroom and a little kitchen area which contains a sink, fridge and stove top. 

I am all unpacked, but I haven't really done much so far, I will start going to castings and all that on Monday, so it gives me a few days to rest and catch up on sleep. Last night I experienced Shanghai food with Joe (the family friend/relative) and his wife, along with their friends that were from Calgary. It was an odd experience, some dishes were okay, some were not so great! I tried everything though and it was quite interesting. 

Thats about all that has happened so far, I'll be sure to keep this updated!

Start of the journey

So it started off with driving to Calgary with my mom and her friend, Nadia. Everything was all good until we hit Edmonton, then mom missed a turn and we started to head towards Saskatchewan instead of Calgary... She kept talking about Vegreville and the giant Ukrainian egg, so when we hit Vegreville we stopped to take pictures. After that, we continued on our journey and it wasn't until about 15 minutes later that she realized we might be headed in the wrong direction! All of the signs kept saying Lloydminster and no one really clued in that we were clearly headed the wrong direction. So after this 15 minutes or so, mom decided to stop and she called Stephen to find out where the heck we were! Turns out we were going almost the exact opposite direction we wanted to, oops! Our little detour extended our trip by about 2 hours!

Hello

I decided to make a blog, so people can look at it and follow my adventures if they wish, as I travel along and all that jazz!