On Wednesday a bunch of exchange students went to Happy Valley Racetrack on Hong Kong Island to watch the horse races. Some of the students, including me, took advantage of a deal where for a higher cost we were allowed to go into the Member’s only area if we showed our passport, as a tourist deal. Being in the Member’s enclosure was cool because that was where all of the more wealthy people were, but not the extremely wealthy because they have boxes. I was out of place though because I had a back pack and was wearing some gym shorts. The next time I go I will dress nicer. The coolest part was that we got to go right by the finish line and the winners circle to watch the race.
Another enjoyable part about going to the racetrack was betting on the horses. Bets start at 10 HKD a bet. Each race I bet for 2 horses to place in the top 3. I put in 160 HKD total and only lost 80. Overall it wasn’t much money lost and it was enjoyable to have my own personal stake in the race.
On Thursday and Friday nights I went to LKF to hang out at some bars and clubs with other exchange students, which was a good time. On Friday I also got some Sushi at a restaurant near Happy Valley. Our orginal intention had been to go to a nearby restaurant that had half off sushi, but the line was very long and the other people didn’t want to wait, but I will be sure to come back.
On Saturday, I met up with a student who goes to school here full time, but is from Germany. He invited me to go bowling with him and some other people later and I accepted. Before going however I had to go to Apliu Street in Sham Shui Po to pick up a converter and some adapters, because I had been using only one adapter and had to share it among devices, I also picked up a cool tripod that was only 8 HKD, so that I can take pictures of things at night or so that I can have a way to take pictures of a group.
After the market I headed to Causeway Bay to go bowling. It turned out that we were going Bowling at the equivalent of a Golf Club, but nicer. It is called the Hong Kong Football Club. It is attached to Happy Valley Race Track and has bowling alleys and some indoor lawn ball courts, and a nice restaurant on the roof with a pool. The people we met up with were mostly local students whose families are from other countries, and they all went to the international school in Hong Kong. Because of this they all speak with American accents when they speak English, which is odd. I couldn’t take any pictures of the club because there is fine for having cell phones/cameras out of 200 HKD.
After eating dinner at the Football club, we went to LKF to watch the Manchester United versus Manchester City Soccer Match on TV. I didn’t really care about it, but most of the foreign people did. The game was pretty exciting and included an awesome goal where the attacker kicked the ball from over his head into the goal. After the game we went to a Club that was playing Dubstep music.
From this experience, I don’t like Dubstep it was very repetitive and loud, and it gave me a headache. The music is basically just really heavy bass constantly. Oh well though.
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