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Just posting my favorite memories and moments from the trip as they come. I can't guarantee that they will be G-rated (sorry Mom & Dad), but I doubt anyone will actually understand them besides myself but I want something to look back on and laugh at when this whole thing is over .
- Mhgòi-all the time
- Antisocial at the Welcome Party ("I hate when people ask me where I'm from")
- The first LKF night-sneaking away with Anna and meeting randoms
- Bartering/getting attacked at Mon Kok
- Le Jardin with the exchange students during the first week & our dance party
- Dancing on the bar at Carnegies for Ladies' Night
- Preferable/Acceptable
- "Are you two roommates because I wanted to switch?"
- Puppy, Blue, Standby, Toe, & Depends
- Getting lost all the time in every location (even with 30 exchange students all together)/The time we went to Dragon's Back and had to knock on the bus door to get back on
- The first time the exchange students got McDonalds & everyone was so happy
- When Jason forced us on the city tour...& we ended up having WAY too much fun at Sky100
- Buying mattress covers instead of blankets and getting tangled in the straps
- "I don't hate it...but I don't like it"
- "They are from Japanese"
- "It's for the university"
- Spilling trays in the cafe (guilty)
- When Leo ordered the stinky ice cream from the dessert place-thanks to durian
- Stinky tofu in the Mon Kok streets
- Everyone injuring their feet & using it as excuses to not do go out/do anything
- Our dinner of 35 @ Mr. Wong's, complete with warm beer & a homeless man hiding behind the sheet out back
- Getting our 10 seconds of fame on HK TV @ Happy Valley horse racing
- Attempting and failing to hike Big Buddha with Arden
- Our first pub crawl on which I went on a drunk rant about the importance of celebrating birthdays
- Dragon's Back --being scared by Leo/playing on the beach with all the exchange students
- All of the selfies and selfie sticks (R.I.P. my first selfie stick at Stanley Market)
- Arden's 21st that she didn't attend & our fun night at LKF (dancing on the poles at Dizzi)
- "I got too much money for them, baby"
- Bumper cars at the carnival
- Ching Chung Chow everywhere
- Finding our way to Stanley Market on the buses thanks to Emily
- "Wipe yo ass" -toilet paper isn't a napkin
- "You don't know anything about me"/we are related
- Hot fish tank water
- $2 USD breakfast hot dogs and corn with Taynah (B6)
- "I'm not taking a picture, I'm taking a video!"-Welsonne @ LKF
- "I was in an open relationship once...I was the only one who knew about it"
- Seeing everyone walk by during flash mob rehearsal and run bc they knew I would try to force them to join
- Party pants all the time
- The spontaneous trip to Malaysia that made me and Taynah freak out for like an hour
- "When in Rome, eat like the Romans. When in HK, eat like the..."
- Malaysian memories
>Emma, Marcus, Zan, Ian-stories of South African life and "He told me he didn't know what was worse so I dated a black woman"
>"Her daddy gonna kill me"-about the guy who fell and tripped at Penang Hill
>When Lucy (the bird) attacked the woman's shoe
>When we realized how young we were to be doing this
>Puppy playing at Snake Temple (which was lame)
>Malaysian food, Red Garden, Harrow (NOT rojak)
>Falling on the bus and the mean bus drivers vs. the nice ones
>Lion Dance Competition
>N'Jah-the AMAZING hostel worker
>2.5 ringlets left to spend
>Unknowingly being a young, lesbian couple all weekend
- Welsonne's many proposals to Anna (Sky100, HR)
- "Peanut butter, egg beater"-how to tread water
- Temple Street Market and our side trip into the "toy" store
- Lawn Cafe-when Leo fell in the hole, when I laughed so hard I pushed Taynah in the hole
- In a three hour span booking flights to Vietnam, Thailand and Japan for $489.29-"You are crazy"
- Philippine memories
>Lying to everyone/on waivers about where we stay/our ages/our nationality
>Flyfish-Anna's scream and falling off (I was the champion)
>Being harassed by groups of people in Boracay
>Pub crawl-making friends with all sorts of people
>Barang (12 times in 3 days)
>Fish feeding-throwing bread at each other
>Crying over our dogs at breakfast
>Valentine's Day with Anna (the girl attacking us for our panty roses)
>Thinking Out Loud-the only song played in the Philippines
>Kalibo-nothing to do but lay in our hostel with bad wifi, power outages (Are we in a place with terrorist attacks), sketchy looks from everyone, tricycle rides and terminal fees (Caves--"This is the #2 attraction?!")
>Good airplane food for once and being obnoxious on the place with the alphabet game and "I'm going on a trip"
- Dance parties in the streets of LKF--outside of the shot place, the creepy LKF guy "Glen"
- All the tinder boys and tinder dates-tinder obsession
- Camping trip
>Flunky ball (and chugging the vodka orange)
>4 am and it wasn't fun anymore (cold, sandy and the tents were blowing)
>Missing tent bags and the mad man
>The journey back that seemed never-ending (another long walk up, the boat, the bus, and train)
>Late night swim and the beach being a toilet
>All of the videos and pictures that I don't remember taking
- Almost getting the cops called on us thanks to puke buses (WW-not WGW)
- Playing the alphabet game on every bus ride. Everyone hating it, but joining in
- Team projects are not fun and certain someone who never helped
- "Pretty and smart"
- Monkey Hill
> Horror movie--we lost one!
>Eating food in the middle of the Family Hike and the monkey spotted us
>Monkeys almost attacking us during a selfie
>Inappropriate monkeys
- Trespassing into the residents' yards at Lamma Island and ignoring the sign
- Stumbling into the meat district on the way to church
- Ocean Park
>Best smelling part of HK until all the fish came
>Being scared for our lives on all of the rides (sketchy roller coaster, painful head roller coaster and insecure drop ride)
>Elevators so long you can sit on them
>The "sea lion" show in all Cantonese and the fish guy who blew a kiss at me
- Disneyland HK
>Tarzan
>Billboard castle
- Em and I--most obnoxious/weird duo--"the voicsh"
- Souvenir shopping (thinking we got great deals at Ladies' Market but were still cheaper at Stanley's and ALL the chopsticks)
- The attempt to close LKF (Ladies' Night)
>Stolen tequila
>Kicked out of the bar
>Losing Anna in "the pizza place" and finding Ebenezer's in the rain
>Snapchat story problems
- Indonesian Memories
>Being harassed by all the Kuta locals ("You take taxi, ok?" "Massage, ok?") in fannypacks
>BURNT in Kuta
>21st memories/Sophie's piercing in Kuta/hair wraps and braids and tattoos
>Bartering--you just tell the shop owner what you will buy it for
>Ubud Market and the search for lizard earrings and the Bintang hat
>Sick roommate in Ubud and my first time in an actual hostel
>No one will believe how difficult the hike was (and the 6 year old who hiked it best)
>Ubud is full of monkeys, puppies and bananas
>Nasi Goreng for every meal!
>Sleeping in the Malaysian airport/the longest layover ever
- 21st birthday: the wet and ripped sign and the epic fall
- Closing LKF-Anna trying to get a job, the Flying Pan was disgusting (hot sauce/ketchup/cinnamon), stealing a Fedora
- Big Wave Bay Beach trip-3 hour trip back to Hung Hom
- Macau
>Most legit VIP section ever
>Getting home so late (early)-8 AM
>2Chainz pictures of me on his phone
- Vietnam
>Chill Skybar and the Vietnamese drunks everywhere
>Food poisoning
>Po the tour guide and the Cu Chi tunnels
>SO CHEAP! So much leftover Dong.
>Best pasta ever on the way to Ho Chi Minh (Cathay Pacific is the best)
- Repulse Bay trip-being harassed by all the Mainlanders and meeting a mutual friend
- Getting so good at bartering at MK that you actually upset the vendors
- New roommate (Anna!)
- 10,000 Buddhas and 10,000 stares
- Egg waffles after church!
- Thailand
>Anna and my freakout over all the complimentary things in our resort room
>Getting punched in the face by Anna every night
>Patong (Lady boys and ping pong shows)
>The best market ever in Phuket town
>Sleeping on the plane (NOT FUN)
>Dancing on the beach in Patong the last night
- The Airport Subway
- Tokyo >Getting lost in our $100 taxi on the way to the hostel
>No one speaks any English but they love to talk to you
>"We'll kiss for 50 Hong Kong dollars"
>Being carried up the stairs by a beautiful man in his underwear (not that I remember)-Torys Highball problems
>"But me mum's the mayor of London" -shenanigans on the 3rd floor of Yadoya
- >Snoring in the hostel--let's kill them
>"One time I made out with Cee Lo Green...turns out it was just a bottle of chocolate syrup"
- Beijing
- >Matching at Disney
>Japanese photo booths are perfect...actually Japanese arcades are
>Booby necklaces and Duffy bags
>Karaoke night that continued all the way down the street and to the hostel
- >Wandering around Tokyo until we found parks
>7-11 meals all the time
- >Delay in the airport
>Day 1 tour: wake up early, rude Indians, Peter's Private Tours, rushing through the Great Wall, windy photo shoot, foreigners taking pictures
>Noodles and rice for breakfast
>Peter and the tea tasting incident. Screaming in the tea factory, trying to quit the tour
>Day 2 tour: Yoyo, all girl tour. Never-ending forbidden city, party plans for it. Don't eat spicy foods at the medicine place
- >Day 3 tour: Happy, Frozen playing at the Beijing stadium, getting the girl lost on tour, TEA MASTERS
>Lost in Beijing and Birkenstock store--no one speak english
- >Falling asleep after the tours in the hotel room at 6 pm and not waking up until the morning
- Blackout and broke toe (Geronimo's)--woke up across town
- Golden Mickey's--best show ever
- We need to leave Asia (Andrea's phone/belly button ring/hand sanitizer) and Tequila Jack's closed and torrential downpour and broken toe
>Crazy driver on the way back to the airport