Sunday, August 07, 2005
My Hunting of HK friends
Since An is away, suddenly I realized I am having an really unhealthy type of life. I hardly have friends here.
It seems I was back 10 years ago, when this silly 18-year-old girl first arrived at Shanghai in a drizzly morning. Alone, knowing nobody and was willing to afford all her life from zero. Now I am back to the same departure line, apart An, HK is fresh as 10 years ago Shanghai to me.
The good thing is I did grow a lot in the past 10 years, and I already became a funny wise matured woman. (sorry for my such-high self-evaluation) Since I figured out the problem, the next step is to fix it.
Quickly, I found some methods to get to know new friends.
1. during browsing internet, I found this gter website and its gter HK forum is doing damn well. Basically, it collects all the students from mainland who study in HK. Without a big effort I found two future classmates: one from Shenzhen, 6 years younger than me, a fresh graduate from university; another from Beijing, 5 years elder than me, one really worked in the field of media. Only CityU is going to have 30 new mainland students for its 2005 September semester. And of course, I am one of it.
2. Through a outdoor activity magazine, I got to know this local cww website. Local Hongkongers arrange outdoor activities. And if people is interested can apply to join them. After two emails ( one in Simplified Chinese, one in English), I still get no answer from them ;-( Meanwhile, I am quite worried about my cantonese ability. I felt very awkward that often people can not communicate with me in Mandarin.
3. www.doyouhike.net : one of the best hicking websites in China. They have Mofang@HongKong. Already enrolled an activity.
4. Maybe a Sunday Church gathering: not so sure right now.
OK, that's all for the moment. Anyone gets good advice please feel free to let me know,
Good night!!
by gattomatto
12:09 AM
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