Hong Kong!

I am so tired! I should be fast asleep right now, but here in China the time is only 10pm. Our head teacher Alexis has a couple of Chinese friends who took us around part of Hong Kong. We walked most of the time with one subway ride. The people here in Hong Kong drive so crazy! It scares me. People apparantly do not thave the right of way. The cars drive right next to the sidewalk SUPER fast. All the people, both in cars or on foot are in a hurry. Especially in the grocery store. I felt like I was in everyones way, like I was the big huge American who just loves to run into everybody!
As I walked through the busy streets, I noticed how beautiful the Chinese women are. They all seem to have their own unique style. I kind of feel styleless next to them. I wonder if they have wide class differences here like in America. They all dress very fashionably and look like they belong to the same group. Maybe I have only seen one clique, who are the '"street walkers". I think it is their culture to be extra thin. It doesn't look unatural on them either because they are so short and their frames are built small.
We had fun eating at a resturant with our chop sticks and wandering down the streets filled with SOOO MANY shops. The night reminded me of Christmas time because of the ammounts of people hurrying from store to store to buy merchandice. I bought two pairs of HOT boots and a pair of jeans. I felt as if I spent alot but in American dollars I spent around $26!
My second day in Hong Kong started out with a bus tour. Our tour guide Mathew, was very intelligent about Hong Kong. We rode to Hong Kong Island and up to Victoria peak where we took pictures of the great view and shopped around. I bought a customized stamp with my name in Chinese characters. It cost me about $12 American dollars but I thought it would be a great suvineer. My name in chinese sounds some what like "ChYa" and it means wisdom and mercy. On our way up the peak we were fortunate enough to pass Jacky Chan's house! His house was very big compared to the average home there. In Hong Kong there are some 800 sq feet houses and apartments that sale for $3 million. That makes it about $3, 750 for each square foot. The apartments in Hong Kong are stacked on top of eachother even until they disapear into the clouds! Literally! They are so crammed for space that the rate for creamation instead of traditional burials is 95%. And they still put most of the ashes in gardens or rivers to save burial and tomb space.
We also saw a few beaches. One of them has a shark net because there were 6 deaths from sharks from 1991-1996. It was pretty non the less.