Merry Christmas from Hong Kong!
Dear Mom, Merry (late) Christmas! Photo cred: Christina Villareal Since it's the holidays and I'm in the giving spirit (and since I was horrible at updating my blog for the second half of the semester), everyone gets another retrospective on some of my later adventures in China. Specifically, on the last weekend of November/first weekend of December, while y'all were still recovering from your Thanksgiving meals, a couple of my new friends and I took a quick trip to Hong Kong! And why did I decide to make my last side-trip in China to Hong Kong? This picture basically sums it up. I'm (a) at Disneyland (b) wearing just a T-shirt on the first day of December. Yeah, to be honest, one of the best parts of Hong Kong was the gorgeous tropical climate, which proved a welcome respite from the Midwestern winters I remember and the equally cold Beijing air. But apart from the sunshine, there's plenty to enjoy in what posters at the airport dub "Asia&
