Hong Kong

The people on the China Teachers Program met from Thursday until today for a conference. This morning each teacher did a two minute presentation about something they did last semester and hopefully we have all come away with a few ideas for next semester.

We went by ferry across Victoria Harbour to Hong Kong Island where the conference was held.

We noticed all kinds of boats in the Harbour - large cruise ships and little fishing boats.

The building above is the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.

Victoria Harbour is getting smaller all the time. All the buildings around the harbour are on reclaimed land. More and more buildings are being built all the time.

After the conference Bob and I along with others went by bus across the island on a narrow, hilly road to Stanley Beach. It was a beautiful day. We had our dinner there and walked along the beach.

There were wedding pictures being taken right in front of the eating places.

Apartments and buildings surrounded the beach.

We returned to the ferry dock by bus and returned to the hotel. We had supper at the Spagetti Factory - we are eating all the western food we can before we return to Nanjing.

Tomorrow we fly to Guilan from Shenzhen, so we have to again cross the border from Hong Kong and then enter China. When we came across the border to Hong Kong there were all kinds of signs about not being ill when you cross the border. There were scanners that we passed through that measure body temperature. They are worried about bird flu.