First we stopped at Ladies Market. You have to be careful what you buy there because as foreigners people tend to overcharge us. In general, I didn't worry about it because there's not much I can do about it since I don't know Cantonese and most things are way cheaper than they would be in the U.S. anyway.
We headed to Langham Place (a much more upscale shopping mall) and beelined for the food court. Grandmother tried a seafood Korean pancake and loved it! Mom ate some Vietnamese seafood curry thing which was much too hot for me. I was unhealthy and had french fries. After lunch we had fun in Cotton On (Grandmother even bought a cardigan there! She is not a shopper)
We left Mongkok after that because I had to go to a class at 6. It was the International Day celebration when I got back to campus. It looked really fun, but I didn't really participate at all because of my stupid class. The Mexican students had a pinata and it was very funny to watch the older Chinese male teachers be blindfolded, spun around and then encouraged to hit the pinata with the bat. There were tons of people there and it looked like everyone was having lots of fun.
In my Hong Kong Popular Culture tutorial a group did a presentation about youth and sex. During the discussion we talked about "compensate women," a term coined in Japan for women who are paid to date older men. The women don't necessarily have to have sex with them, but they go on dates with the men to relieve loneliness and boost the status of the men because it looks good to have a pretty young girl on your arm apparently. I thought this concept was very interesting and I have never even heard of this kind of thing in the U.S. Maybe it exists, but it is no where near as common as in Hong Kong (and apparently Japan).
After class, I met my mom at the front gate of Lingnan. She had taken a taxi from the hotel with both of their suitcases. They planned to keep them in my room while we went to Guangzhou. We rolled the suitcases to my dorm and were greeted by people in ghost masks. Apparently the dorms were all doing haunted houses that night. We squeezed by the ghosts and took the suitcases to my room. Mom skyped with Elizabeth and Dad while I packed for Guangzhou. Their conversations were pretty funny because every oncei n a while they were interrupted by bloodcurdling screams coming from the haunted house in my hostel.
We left the hostel to head to the hotel for the night and as soon as we stepped outside we were greeted by hoards of people. There were so many people everywhere, waiting in lines at different hostels in order to go into the haunted houses.
It was rather chilly so we sped-walked to Siu Hong (the MTR station nearby). Once we got back tot he hotel, we stopped to get carry out dessert and then played cards yet again.
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