I've finally gotten settled into my new home in Hong Kong! I spent the last week and a half or so traveling throughout Asia (see my travel blog for more details) and have finally arrived at the student hostel I'll be staying at for the next four months! I'm staying in Caritas Student Hostel in Kennedy Town, which is one metro stop away from HKU. I explored Kennedy Town today with my roommate and a few other students we met to get acquainted with where we will be spending most of our time. We don't have a kitchen in our hostel, so I had to scope out some places to eat! Below are photos of what my room looked like before I moved in . Even though the room is relatively small, it fits three beds and also has a large refrigerator and bathroom (not pictured). I only have one roommate, so we actually have an extra bed/desk to use as storage space! This will be the first time I'm really living on my own, since I was able to go home every weekend even though I dormed at UH. I'm excited but also nervous - especially since everything in Hong Kong is still so new! Aside from moving in, I've also got my class schedule relatively finalized. We're allowed to add and drop classes this upcoming week, so I can still change it if I find that I don't like one of the classes in my schedule. I'll update the blog if I make any changes. HKU made the registration process really easy if you prepared beforehand! As part of the application/acceptance process you had to list down classes you were interested in taking. At the end of summer they evaluated our updated transcripts and class requests to check if we met pre-requisites for the classes we wanted, then registered us for those classes for us so long as there was space in the classes and no time conflicts. All of the classes I requested were approved! I ended up adding another class later - Chinese as a foreign langauge - so I'm still waiting approval for that course. If you're part of Shidler and studying abroad, I recommend reading through Shidler's list of course equivalencies on their partner school website and then looking to see which of those classes are available during your term of study. HKU listed the pre-requisites for each course in their catalog, which made it easy to see what courses I could take given the courses I had already taken at UH.
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Emily BallBorn and raised in Aiea, HI, traveling to Hong Kong to study Human Resource Administration. ArchivesCategories |