Basically like all the other days today started with an early rise and then breakfast in the executive lounge. After breakfast we took the train/bus combo to the office and started the day. The class went well enough but the students are sort of cheating themselves because one of the Koreans knows too much about the system and they are letting him do all of the lab work. It also means they are racing through the material that normally takes a full day. It is posing minor problems in that they think the class is light on material when it really isn't.
After class was over we headed back to the hotel and I dropped off my stuff and headed out to meet Jack for dinner and a couple drinks. I had to walk from my hotel to the Mong Kok station rather than just using the Mong Kok East station we have right at the hotel. All of the walk is on a covered overpass over the streets as soon as you exit the mall. It took maybe 15 minutes to get to Mong Kok station. From there I had to figure out the maze that was the station and that took a minute or two. I had to cross the station from where I entered to practically the other side and go down two levels. The ride to Central station was about 15 minutes and say 6 stops or so. I was supposed to meet jack at the Starbucks but I couldn't find it and called him and he came and got me at the Mrs. Fields instead. Yes they have all the American places...
We first went around the area of the station and had a couple drinks at a bar there that was relatively not too crowded. After chatting for a bit we walked out of that area and got a cab heading back towards the island our hotel is on. Central station is on Hong Kong Island, our hotel is not. We took a cab to an area with a bunch of restaurants then he thought we would have Mexican food so we ate burritos at a place I think was called Agave. In any event the food wasn't bad. I had a spicy pork burrito to continue on with the spicy theme of food for the day. After dinner we walked around the area and found a place to have another drink. The place had a live band that was apparently Filipino and there were all sorts of scantily clad Filipina women around trying to pick up guys. It felt like it was probably mafia owned and Jack basically said it was. The band sang songs in English that were basically dance songs current and old from America. After a while there we picked up a cab and headed back in for the night. I got in at about midnight and basically headed straight to bed.
The few pictures from today are here.
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