Sunday was spent with studying and going to meetings to plan excursions. Currently I am planning on going to Taipei, Taiwan for 4 days in March. We plan on seeing lots of things including Taipei 101 the second tallest building in the world. We will leave on Thursday after our classes are done and fly from Hong Kong to Taipei then stay in a hostel in Taipei. Then we will come back on Monday. The other excursion I am planning is a trip to the Philippines in 2 weeks. We are flying to Cebu and staying at a hotel on an island. It has a beach and snorkeling and scuba diving. I am excited for both.
On Monday, I went by myself to Mong Kok to go to the ladies market to buy a Green Bay Packers jersey. I knew someone else who had got one there so I decided to try it. I found a place that had lots of soccer and football jerseys but no Packers jersey. I could have bought like five Favre Vikings Jerseys, which I don’t want. I will go back sometime and search again. While I was at the market I bought a case for my ipod which I had been looking for, and a bowtie for cheap.
While I was at the market I also got called a “Gwailo” by one person I was bargaining with. Gwailo literally means “White Ghost” but it is essentially saying cracker. I don’t know if the person who called me it knew I knew what it meant. I was bargaining over something and he said it was of high quality and I said it wasn’t. Overall I really like going to street markets and buying stuff for cheap. I like bargaining with people and being able to walk away when don’t want the price they give me. Usually I can get the prices down by half and sometimes more than that. For example the Vibram Five Fingers I bought started at 700 HKD but I paid 200 for them.
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