Typical sights in Hong Kong: #1 Typhoons

For the past few weeks there has always been some ruckus about typhoons and weather they would hit us or just pass by unnoticed, like most of the time. The magical typhoon level is 8 as school, work and most of the shops do not pick up work on these days.

The same predictions made their way around and most of the persons I talked to believed in the inability of the Hong Kong Observatory to predict accurately but they were wrong!

http://www.hko.gov.hk/contente.htm

When I got up at 6 o'clock in the morning and checked my mobile phone my eyeperceived a sms saying that the level raised up to 8 and school would be suspended for today! Not only did I get a couple more hours of sleep out of it but the city fell asleep as well, which rarely to never happens in Hong Kong.
Moreover all the noise from a nearby building site died down and one could only hear the rain for the past 5 hours. Truly magical!

Now it is official, I love thypoon as they bring out the better parts of Hoong Kong :)

Would you be able to predict the typhoon is coming?

The magical number 8 which is supposed to bring luck  in China!

Quick review

After some request, the first pictures of my apartment in Hong kong! It is not very spacious but it features everything one needs to live in Hong Kong and a couch-bed, which is already used by travellers. In the next days I will put it up on Couchsurfing as well. More pictures will follow soon.

Home is where your flat is!

After days of exhausting search we finally found a suitable apartment! As there is still a rusty pipe to fix and a bed missing it will be a few days until we can move in but we are relived to have one less thing one our mind.

It is located in the heart of Wan Chai so we have any possible means of public transit to get to work or to Kowloon. The size is just under 500square-feet (45 square meters), it has a new kitchen and for guests a sofa-sleeper. On the contrary we still need to do some handy work and get a table `plus chairs.

Many thanks go to the mother of our friend Joyce who helped us prodigiously by checking all conditions of rent and talking to the real estate agent. Without her we would not have a flat yet as we were anxious to get fooled. Now we are tremendously more confident that we found a good place to stay.

Pictures will follow after the renovation is done--> August 26th.


Tomorrow [yesterday due to weak internet connection this post was not published ] we will leave Hong Kong to visit Macao as we want to activate Cornelius's Visa to apply for a Hong Kong ID-Card. In the next days we will open a bank account at HSBC, get us registered at the embassy and of course meet new interesting people.

Welcome abroad to all the other volunteers who arrived at their final destination :)