Weekend Events

Lantau Hiking 

After my mom left I had planned on going to Shenzhen, but that plan quickly changed. Andrew and I ended up going hiking with Lorena (German) to Lantau Island. We attempted to climb up to Lantau Peak and realized it would take forever, be painful, and turn dark before we even got close, so we went back. The hike was really nice though. Then we decided to take another short hike before heading back to the village. We followed the signs… until they stopped. There was a sign to continue to the village but said it would take 1.5 hours and there was no sign for the shorter trail AND it was about to start getting dark. We didn’t want to walk all the way back up the hill so we decided to keep walking. We saw another sign, over an hour left. By this point we decided to start running. Literally all three of us were sprinting down the side of a mountain, surrounded by gorgeous lush forest, and dark setting in. We made a joke out of it and even had a quick stop to make a Blair Witch inspired video. We made it down to a bus stop just before dark. It ended up being a great adventure that thankfully ended well!

On the Trek

French Connection Night

Later I decided to go to Ned Kelly’s yet again. There was a smaller group this night, mainly comprised of French people.  They had eaten dinner there and already finished a few bottles of wine. For the most part I chatted with JB and met a few new French. After one of Michael’s sets he ordered me a small version of the initiation shot he takes every time he plays. It was pretty disgusting, but I felt accomplished. Since I was worn out from the eventful week with my mom I figured I would go to sleep early until Amaury (French) convinced me it was a good idea to go to LKF. So I went! We almost got in a tiff with our taxi driver because he went through the wrong toll and said we owed him more money. We are not tourists so we were not going to pay him for this obviously intended ‘mistake’. Eventually we just got out and walked away. We went to a random bar and I spent most of the evening dancing with Michael to the most random assortment of music. It was fun to spend time with new people and now I hang out with the French people much more!

The disgusting initiation drink

Mexican with the Leknes’

The following week Maria’s parents were visiting from Norway and she invited us to dinner in SoHo at a Mexican restaurant. Bodil and Knut Leknes were so much fun and really trying to encourage us to come visit them in Norway and telling us everything we could do there like fishing for our own dinner. Bodil was cute and cracking up at what Andrew was saying the whole time. It was a great dinner, but unfortunately we had to get back to work on homework.

Dinner with the Leknes'