LKF...wow.

So, it’s been a while since I updated my blog and I’ve been trying to get on it for the past three days. I have so much to write about! It’s hard to access Wi-Fi here though, so I’m going to post a lot of blog entries at once about my last few days.

I’ll start with last Friday, June 21^st…. Friday night we went out to LKF, which stands for Lan Kwai Fong. It’s like the 6^th Street of Austin, but more crazy. Perhaps it seemed more crazy and exciting because we’re tourists, but it was off the chain. We actually saw a lot of other foreigners there, rather than Asians, including Europeans and Australians. I met a guy from Italy who was walking around with us for a little bit and he asked how old I was and I said 20. In his dismay, he hung his head and said in his Italian accent, “I am too young.” So naturally I asked him how old he was and he said he was 17. I told him that it was okay, and that I was a lesbian with my friend Mel and he goes, “You are the third girl tonight to tell me she’s a lesbian!” Poor kid.

Anyway, LKF doesn’t have open container laws, so people just walk in the streets with drinks and hang out. There’s this thing called the “7 Eleven pregame” where you go to the 7 Eleven (which are EVERYWHERE over here) and buy drinks for super cheap and just drink them in the street before going to clubs so you don’t have to buy the expensive drinks. There’s also this other thing called the MTR Challenge. Precursor: MTR is the mass transit railway. It stops running at like midnight and doesn’t start up again until like 6am. The MTR Challenge is where you go out to LKF on the MTR and don’t come back until it starts running again in the morning, because clubs don’t close here until 6am. We haven’t done that yet, but our friend Ellen’s birthday is coming up so we might give it a go. Also it’s really freaky on LKF because guys just reach out and grab you as they walk by.

In this one club we went in, it was jam packed but us Americans were like the only ones dancing. Everyone was staring at us and these two Asian girls were laughing and thought we were hilarious. We pulled them into our dance circle and showed them how to have a good time. I’m pretty sure they loved us.

I went to bed around 4 or 4:30am that night, and we had to wake up early to go to Macau the next morning, which is like the Vegas of Hong Kong. I actually heard Macau brings in more money than Vegas, but I don’t know how accurate that is. The Macau trip deserves a blog entry of its own though, so that's next!