Everyone in the office must think I have SARS. I just want to be better!
Nothing exciting to report from today. I took an extra hour this morning to wander around my new neighborhood and it's growing on me. Whoever told me that Hong Kong was like New York only cleaner apparently hasn't spent much time in Wan Chai. I've experienced funk-pockets that put San Francisco to shame. For breakfast, I picked up what I thought was like a "go-gurt", which was more like sugar-water with "solid milk product." I also had a doughnut-like substance with what was kind of like grated cheese on top. Food is so weird here. For lunch, my co-worker took me to a French place in our building which was okay. It's like right, but not quite right. I imagine this is what it must be like for a native Mexican to eat in a Mexican restaurant in Europe. Close, but a little off ...
I was phone screening a candidate today and I'm starting to realize that outside of Hong Kong, language is going to be a problem. I had a really tough time understanding her. There's so much that I don't even know to ask, like what currency her sales figures were in and that I needed to question both her Mandarin and Cantonese skills ... but she's from Thailand. Uhm, okay. So much to learn ...
So half way through, the coughing fit started. I was the first person to leave the office (at 7:00 pm, the entire office was still working hard!) I stopped to get some more thera-flu (at least that's what I think it is) on my way home, and then my body decided to reject Hong Kong. In entirety. It wanted to be beamed back to the US (in the middle of a Wal-Greens or Safeway preferably). I was going to pick up dinner (it would be my first since coming to Hong Kong), and I just wanted to barf. I got a little turned around and ended up by a bunch of nudie bars ... that interestingly have little old ladies checking ID's. Then I went through animal carcass row ... the only thing I could recognize was the underside of turtles and some kind of brown eggs. I guess no dinner again tonight ...
Nothing exciting to report from today. I took an extra hour this morning to wander around my new neighborhood and it's growing on me. Whoever told me that Hong Kong was like New York only cleaner apparently hasn't spent much time in Wan Chai. I've experienced funk-pockets that put San Francisco to shame. For breakfast, I picked up what I thought was like a "go-gurt", which was more like sugar-water with "solid milk product." I also had a doughnut-like substance with what was kind of like grated cheese on top. Food is so weird here. For lunch, my co-worker took me to a French place in our building which was okay. It's like right, but not quite right. I imagine this is what it must be like for a native Mexican to eat in a Mexican restaurant in Europe. Close, but a little off ...
I was phone screening a candidate today and I'm starting to realize that outside of Hong Kong, language is going to be a problem. I had a really tough time understanding her. There's so much that I don't even know to ask, like what currency her sales figures were in and that I needed to question both her Mandarin and Cantonese skills ... but she's from Thailand. Uhm, okay. So much to learn ...
So half way through, the coughing fit started. I was the first person to leave the office (at 7:00 pm, the entire office was still working hard!) I stopped to get some more thera-flu (at least that's what I think it is) on my way home, and then my body decided to reject Hong Kong. In entirety. It wanted to be beamed back to the US (in the middle of a Wal-Greens or Safeway preferably). I was going to pick up dinner (it would be my first since coming to Hong Kong), and I just wanted to barf. I got a little turned around and ended up by a bunch of nudie bars ... that interestingly have little old ladies checking ID's. Then I went through animal carcass row ... the only thing I could recognize was the underside of turtles and some kind of brown eggs. I guess no dinner again tonight ...
PS - the picture is a partial view from my office window ... nice, huh?
2 comments:
Justin, I feel for you and I hope things are getting easier. I'll send you an email right now that will hopefully brighten your day! You can email me anytime to chat!
Love Cristina
I'm so sorry you don't feel well! There is not much worse than traveling and feeling like crap. Even more so when you can find none of the comforts of home.
Hope you are on the mend soon. I'll be thinking good thoughts for you!
Kristie O.
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