Hong Kong Blog

Hello the whole world, or at least to the person reading this. My name is Joe Heaney, a placement student in Hong Kong, and I love it long time as the Chinese would say. I was chosen by University Kent Canterbury to represent along with a fellow student named Richard Cohen to divide and conquer Hong Kong I work for JP Morgan Chase in Shatin, where the work is hard and long but the ‘family’ are very accommodating. With the term ‘family’ I really mean family, these guys and girls are some of the nicest people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting in my life, and I am not exactly the sort of person who suffers bad company well. I am the new attraction at work, everyone wants a piece and to know anything and everything about our culture back home (England). This has meant I have made many new friends in a short space of time, which I love because it means I am always preoccupied, after all the devil makes work for idle thumbs. I know Rich has blogged the hell out of arrival so I will not bore you with more trivial details. Just note one thing if anything, Hong Kong is hot, like being branded every morning you decide you might dare to venture forth.

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Hong Kong had always seemed like a distant dream. Even after all the planning and then the good wishes and final goodbyes from friends and family, I still found it hard to believe that I was actually sitting on a plane flying across the world. While people I knew who had been to Hong Kong had tried to describe their experience(s), I found their explanations akin to describing a rainbow to the blind. It’s a difficult emotion to describe, having absolutely no idea what you’re going into - I didn’t feel nervous or apprehensive, just the expectation of… something.

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