I moved from the guesthouse that I was in to a hostel across the harbor this afternoon. It didn’t take that much time but it did happen in such a way as to make it difficult to do anything big today. That’s okay though because the only big thing that I need to do is go to Macau and I think I’ll do that tomorrow, that freed me to wander the business part of Hong Kong.

My idea was I was going to wander myself back to the other place I was staying. The reasoning was that I couldn’t get lost because I was familiar with the one part. So for about four hours I just walked along getting a feel for Hong Kong in general. I know I’ve made comments about the amount of people, and I stand by them, there are too many people here. What I haven’t said though is I’m starting to understand their culture, the way they interact with each other, and how they deal with the lack of space. To give you an example of what I mean about “space,” I don’t think that I’ve been anywhere to eat since I’ve been here that I’ve had a full table to myself. The thing is, is it’s like being in an elevator, you don’t talk to them, they don’t talk to you, it almost seems normal to me. There are other examples but I think that one give an idea of how they have adapted to the huge number of people here.

One other thing that I told my self that I wanted to remember was that I think this is the first time I’ve ever been somewhere where I wasn’t the fastest walker around. Seriously, if there is one thing that everybody I know makes fun of me for is how fast I walk. This evening though I noticed a little girl (as in short girl) staying up with me, and at the same time a guy passed me. Now you have to understand that just doesn’t happen to me, but since I’ve been here it happens quite a bit. I have occasionally been passed when I’m tired or carrying a heavy backpack, but in all the situations that I’m thinking since I’ve been here I have been walking my normal speed. That may also explain why I see very few obese Chinese here.