e-Blog (International Students)

September 11, 2017

Today I went to the beach with two of my friends who also don’t have lectures on a Monday. We went to a beach called Repulse Bay on Hong Kong Island. We took the MRT from Kowloon Tong to Central, got off at Exit A and then took the 216 bus to the beach. The beach was beautiful, with clear sand and tree’s dotted along the coast. Throughout the day, we walked along the beach, swam in the ocean and got some lunch at one of the restaurants, I have avocado and eggs as I had not eaten western food in about three weeks so was craving it when I saw a western restaurant.  Unfortunately, there were a lot of Chinese tourist that visited the beach throughout the day who many of them asked to take pictures with us as we had blond hair which got really annoying so about half way through the day we moved up the beach to a quieter spot which was a lot better. We also stayed to watch the sun set fall over the bay which was truly stunning, overall a beautiful and relaxing Monday.

September 12, 2017

Tuesday I have 9 hours of lectures which is a pretty long day. I have Social Media marketing 9am-12pm, Consumer behavior 3pm-6pm and Team Leadership and Management 7pm-10pm. To tell you in a little more in detail: In Social Media Marketing, we started our individual presentations about a trending event in the media that happened the week before. Consumer behavior we were discussing consumer motivation and personality and in team leadership and management we formed our groups for the semester. My group was made put of three local Hong Kong Students a girl from Canada, Switzerland and me! We got given a group assignment to present Pecha kuccha presentation for next week. Apart from that I used the residence gym for a quick workout.

September 13, 2017

September 14, 2017
Today we did one of Hong Kong’s famous hikes Lions Rock. I did it with three of my friends. We took a taxi to the start of the hike which only cost us 30 HK and when we arrived we started the hike. It took us about an hour and a bit to reach the top. As we climbed up the trail we were joined by a group of monkeys’ that followed us up all the way which was cool. At the top of the hike it was beautiful we could see all of Hong Kong from the rock. We sat there for about 45 minutes chatting and we watched the cloud clear and move away as the view became even more spectacular. Once we got back to residence we all got ready to go out for some dinner in central at an Indian restaurant called Bombay Dreams. It was one of my friends 20th birthday’s. Around the table, we had 7 different nationalities which was so interesting to talk to so many different people, it’s one of the reasons why I chose to do exchange at CityU because so many people come from all over the world.


Today a group of 6 of us from CityU planned a big expedition. We took the MTR all the way over to Yau Tong and changed for the Hang Hau line. Where we got on one of the small local minim buses to this small town, which I can’t remember the name off and stocked up and snacks for the day. Then we got into a taxi to the start of the hike in the Hong Kong Geopark.   The park was beautiful. There was a huge reservoir and a beautiful view of the sea. We sun creamed up as it was 33 degrees and started the 6km hike to the beach. Truly the most beautiful hike yet, we sat under the trees as it was far too hot to sit in the sun and we chilled, swam and hiked up behind the beach for even more stunning views. At about 6pm we got a water taxi back to the town where we could get the bus from. The boat was super fun and fast. We grabbed dinner at a Chinese restaurant and had some noodles until we headed back to the residence for a well-deserved sleep.

Labels: 2017/2018 Semester A