Hong Kong, HK

Hong Kong, HK

Sunday, 23. February 2014

We have completely dived in to the busy pace of life here in Hong Kong, leaving our relaxed life in Taiwan behind us in an instant: making glass, giving a talk and exploring a city full of seven million people. Unfortunately we had to abandon our initial plan to find a container ship to Japan. After lots of research, writing to captains and phoning shipping companies we went back to searching for flights, sadly admitting that we wouldn’t belong to the family of seafarers. That would have been great! But some spontaneous ideas don’t work.

At the Hong Kong Baptist University we made glass and gave a talk on our travelling project. They have a fully equipped glass department including sanders, cast and fusing furnaces and a big glass studio. We also visited a small glass studio for tourists on Lamma Island and that was already the end of our glass tour. There just isn’t anything else here. This makes it somewhat difficult for students to carry on once they have finished their studies. Kwan, one of the students, invited us home after making glass. As the apartments are very small here and densely occupied, this is uncommon. We got a very warm welcome by her family and a lovely meal of fish soup, rice, tofu, meat balls with pineapple and vegetables. To show us what’s usually on the menu in Hong Kong, she also took us to a dumpling restaurant. First of all you have to work your way through some paperwork before they serve you food. Soon we’ll have to negotiate even more paperwork, when we apply for our Chinese visas.