Category: Hong Kong
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Hey there. My name is Amy and I’m on a semester-long exchange at the City University, Hong Kong (CityU). If you’re interested in exchange in Hong Kong, check out my previous blog post here. In this post, I’ll be expanding more in depth about the subjects I wrote in my previous blog. Hopefully this is…
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I arrived in Hong Kong almost three weeks ago and have fallen in love with this fabulous, sweaty city. I’m here for a semester of study at City U in Kowloon-Tong.
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Any new city is daunting to an outsider. No matter how well organized, its layout will elude any confused and tired traveler. It takes focus, time and a smidgen of common sense to become comfortable and to begin to build a new home wherever you are.
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Hey there! My name is Amy, and I’m on exchange at the City University of Hong Kong. What I’ll be covering in this blog post are my experiences of Hong Kong so far, and hopefully this information will give anybody who’s considering Hong Kong as an exchange student a push in the right direction 🙂
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Although since 1997 Hong Kong became once again, a part of China, it still holds a very unique cultural identity. The main language used in Cantonese, rather than Mandarin used in the mainland, and the currency is Hong Kong dollars rather than Ren Min Bi; and best of all for an exchange student, English is…
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Reaching my last few days in Hong Kong, as cliché as it is to say that my exchange program was a life-changing experience, it was so much more than words can describe. Ever since my first semester at UTS, I’ve always been interested in going on exchange but was held back by my many fears such as…
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Big things come in small packages and I cannot stress enough how fitting this phrase is for Hong Kong. Hong Kong is approximately 1, 104 square kilometers and fits into Australia 7, 012 times (for you trivia nuts) but the infinite number of skyscrapers and economical use of space makes it feel much bigger than…
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Hong Kong might not have the annual Sydney City2Surf race but it does share a lot in common with Sydney, it has a great city & beach culture! Having been in Hong Kong for little over a month now, I wanted to share with you some of the highlights of my time so far: 1. City Life:…
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The above picture is what many will think of Hong Kong as; a vibrant economic hub teaming with skyscrapers. And it is, but as I found out, it has so much more to offer. When I first arrived in Hong Kong, a few exchange students and I thought it would be a great idea to…
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At first i wasn’t completely sure why i had chosen Hong Kong, mainly because i’ve been there so many times, each time for a few weeks and it was alright. It’s barely a dot on the map,but i guess there was something inside me that believed it had something more to offer than the tall…
