My Goodbye to HK

I am currently in a 12 hour long night train, going from Bangkok to Koh Samui, wrapped in a blanket and a towel, and pretty sure a huge beetle just crawled next to me. I guess I will have to cancel my plans of catching up on my sleep tonight.

I have never been good at sleeping in buses/trains/planes but I thought tonight would be easier since yesterday night I only slept for one hour.

Yes, one hour. Seriously I don’t know how I managed to not only catch my flight to Bangkok this morning, but spend the whole day awake and walking around Bangkok and now it is about midnight and a half and I am not able to sleep because of a damn beetle. Fuck you beetle.

My one month and a half adventure around Thailand, Laos and Cambodia begins today!! I am soo soo excited for all the new things I am about to experience, but first, I must say bye to Hong Kong.

My time in Hong Kong is over. This fact is a hard one to swallow for me. I REALLY REALLY REALLY am not ready for my exchange life to be over. Seriously it passed by in two seconds. It feels like only two seconds ago, I arrived in Hong Kong and was meeting everyone and now only two seconds later I am saying goodbye. I actually wish I was on exchange for one year, but with all of the same people.

Saying bye was soo shitty. Almost as shitty as this beetle. Okay I’m sorry but seriously this beetle isn’t leaving and I don’t want to try to kill it because what if it flies in my face?

But yeah I am so sad, it’s crazy being with people every single day, and then just having to say bye for maybe years or decades or life. I will miss everyone like crazy. It actually hurts to think about it. It’s also hard to think I won’t be able to wake up in my rez room, have breakfast on campus and see everyone again. Meet in front of Hall 4, be in LKF or Wan Chai with everyone, plan adventures on weekends and travel plans during breaks…

This lifestyle was just incredible. It just wasn’t real life. It was dream life. My biggest worry was where in Asia should I travel? What food should I eat? What cool adventure in HK should I do this weekend? Where should we predrink? Which beach should we go to? Which picture looks better? Should I go to Burma or Laos?

Even when we were on campus “studying”, we were outside, in perfect weather, next to cute little waterfalls, ponds with turtles and colorful fish, what we called “Chinese houses”, palm trees, birds singing and frogs making noises (which was sometimes actually distracting but that’s beside the point). Basically, I was living in paradise and so now I am really realizing that reality back at home is going to give me a good smack in the face. I guess it’s a good thing I am travelling for one month and a half.

Waaaaa okay I literally just killed the beetle. Sorry beetle.

Anyway!!! As much as I can keep whining and explaining why I am so sad that I am done with my HK life, I really have to just think of it as the end of a chapter and now I am moving onto another exciting adventure. I really can’t complain about anything, I know that. Two of my best friends from home are joining me in Thailand and so are my two brothers. So that’s amazing. Plus I am going to meet Emilie, Celia, Janice and Cleo in Laos and Cambodia! So at least I will be able to see them again before going back to Canada!

Ok now that the beetle is dead I will try to sleep… Good night world!