my AIESEC internship in Hong Kong - 2nd edition...

Interns' legacy

Hey everyone :) How are you? everything's good?

;)

I started this message board on Facebook group that we have: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2470140748&topic=2562&post=6856#post6856

Where interns can share their favourite places in HK, besides the common attractions, your favourite hidden shops or restaurants, places u love but is not easy to find in guides. Contribute so that others will be able to use it and have as much fun in HK as we did :)))

I already posted first contribution from Egle, please go there and add more. At the end i'll sum it up and post here a long list of places we recommend to new comers :)

Big hug to all of you from Kiev!

Nadya

p.s. How come this blog is so dead??

Reunion part 2

After our reunion with Magdalena and her boyfriend Michael in Amsterdam, Liesbeth and I decided to visit them in Poland. We visited them from May 3 to May 6. It's been an awesome trip, especially because it was so good to meet Magdalena and Michael again. One of the advantages of being involved with AIESEC is that you are building up a nicely international group of friends, whom you can then visit in their home countries. Szczecin (where Magda lives) was very nice, they even have a (sort of) hight building there with a good view of the city. And a castle, good (Amsterdam like) architecture, and good vodka. We also had a short swim in the Baltic Sea, about as long as we could stand the cold. From the South China Sea to the Baltic Sea is definitely a long way =)

Hey, this blog is supposed to be about Hong Kong, right? Well, I sure hope you are going to post a bit more about everything you are doing, please keep all the Hong Kong alumni up to date!

Reunion

Hi everyone!

I hope you have had a wonderful weekend on Lantau, please show some pictures and write about it! In the meantime, Liesbeth and I have been acting as tourguides in Amsterdam for Magdalena and Michael. So cool to have a little Hong Kong reunion in Europe! I hope to see all of you again, you are welcome in Amsterdam =)

Leaving Hong Kong

Slowly the house began to feel like home again. It had taken some time to find back his mittens and woolen hat again. After searching through the house, he had finally found them on the bottom of his grandmother's closet. The space! So much space around him, he could even walk around through the apartment. This is not hard to get used to again, he thought.

Not so with the biting cold. Yesterday it had even been snowing, prompting Gerrit Hiemstra of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute to issue a weather alarm. The whole nation was in consternation, people were leaving work early, so as not to end up in endless traffic jams, half of the train services were cut to avoid trouble, schools finished by 11 am. But in the afternoon, most of the six centimeters of snow had melted already, leaving a meteorologist behind with a lot to explain. He still tried to classify the weather alarm as successful.

A. was silently laughing, not recognizing his home country, which he left behind some six months ago. Was the Dutch society becoming as risk avoiding as the people of Hong Kong? How long would it take for authorities to put up signs with “Mind the gap”, “Hold the handrail” and “PLEASE MIND YOUR HEAD”?

Even though he liked to poke fun at Hong Kong, his dreams were filled with stories about what he left behind. The amazing people, the vibrant city and everything you can do there. As he was cycling on a deserted Haarlemmerdijk, he could actually see the sky looking up. A crow circled above the road.

When he turned onto the steep bridge leading to the central station, the road seemed to slide away under him. “Ayaa!” he exclaimed. The frost had left a treacherous layer of ice on the incline. Just moments before he was startled by the car coming from his left, because he had been looking to the right. The slippery surface was something else he had forgotten about. His pants were badly damaged at the knee.

He was the only one impatiently pushing his way into the train. “Klootzak!” the burly man getting off the train called him. That’s right, you are supposed to please let passengers exit first.

It was surprising to find out that he could understand every conversation around him again. And at the same time he noticed that he was not so annoyed anymore to hear people speak Turkish in the train next to him (or was it Moroccan?).

On Utrecht Central he had to go. He clearly remembered that it cost 50 eurocents. But what did a 50-eurocent coin look like again? (No joke!) He made his way to the restrooms, while going through his wallet. The stream of people felt like a charging herd of Goliaths. And not a single Asian face! Where had they all gone?

Back home he realized he was going to dine in again! He started to miss going out for dinner every night. “Fancy some dim sum?” L. asked. “Hmmm… how about fried potatoes?”

Celebrate Love every Day!

May you find that love that won't leave you

May you find it by the end of the day

You won't be lost, hurt, tired and lonely

Something beautiful will come your way

Arne & Jurgita

Last week two interns headed back home (Arne) or for new Adventures (Jurgita)...here's picture from one of the farewell dinners :))

Arne & Jurgita!!!! We MISS YOU !!! Please write something :) We kow you're good and safe home (or new place) but we want to know more!