ni hao, wo jiao muffin

April 28 to May 2, 2006.
I flew to Hong Kong to transit to Shenzhen, China. We were to attend an EARCOS seminar on Korean students in Shekou International School. Ate Clarisse, Cria and myself flew via Cebu Pacific on the 440pm flight. They were delayed... hence their "95% on time" slogan (what a surprise). This is us waiting.


We were booked in Cruise Inn, a ship-slash-hotel supposedly docked in the Sea World area. It sounded interesting and being the adventurous creatures we were, we booked two rooms for us three. To be honest I was only skeptical about it being on sea. I thought it meant we would be swaying to the motions of the ocean 24/7 but thank god, it was really just parked on pavement surrounded by two feet of water. Hay salamat.


The night we arrived. Good thing our location was the sort of Eastwood-y type so there were lots of Western restaurants to choose from.


After the seminar we also made our way down to Windows of the World, the must-see theme park in the area featuring miniature replicas of all the little must-see's in the world. I so unexpectedly found myself in St. Peter's Square once again.



And Patty, guess what? I finally stepped foot on the Palace of Versailles!

Not the real one though, haha. At least I got to see what it would have looked like had we actually gone on that tour we were so forced to shell out for.

Out shopping.


Our head teachers, Shane and Sandi, over a drink at California Grill.

Oh and can I just say, my former chinovela obsession has popped up in the most unexpected places. Never did I know I could actually speak enough Mandarin for them to understand me. Don't underestimate the power of xie xie ni! Okay guys, tsai chien! (Goodbye!)