My cameo appearance…
Travel Location: Hong-Kong,China
My third day in Hong Kong began with a similar breakfast as the day before…although Dr. Allard was busy checking his e-mail at the hotel so I had to try and order for us, since none of the others speak any Mandarin or Cantonese. Well, I don’t know any Cantonese, and our waitress was one of the few people in Hong Kong to not speak any English, and she didn’t understand my Mandarin at all (a not terribly uncommon occurrence, sadly enough) so our breakfast was….interesting, but it all got sorted out in the end.
Megghie had spent the night coughing and woke up with a headache, and because of the panic H1N1 was causing people, Dr. Allard decided she should stay in the hotel and rest while the rest of us visited the excavation site of a fellow archaeologist and a storage for archaeological artifacts. Before we went to those places, we visited the museum of an ancient ruler of the area (it was actually quite small, just a building around the tomb that had been excavated, and you couldn’t go inside it, but just look at it through a glass barrier) and then we went to another temple to the Sea Goddess. It was lovely and ornate like most of the temples, though I did see some adorable stray cats, which made my day, although I hope the poor things are looked after somewhat. Then, we found an internet cafe, where I contacted my family for the first time since leaving Newark, to let them know I was alive and well. (I had left my cell phone at home, since we planned on buying cheap cell phones in China)
as we were walking down a busy pedestrian-only street, people began gesturing at us vigorously.
The excavation site and storage were quite interesting, at least to some extent, in the sense that they were new for me. I’ve never been to an archeaological site before, and I was terrified of stepping on something important, but it was very neat to actually see the extremely old artifacts being found (mostly pottery pieces, but also some bones from graves) and the storage was also fairly interesting, although it mainly consisted of lots, and lots, and LOTS of pottery (which all starts to look pretty much the same to non-archaeologists, or at least to me).
We returned to the hotel to check up on Megghie, who seemed to be feeling better, relaxed for a bit, and then joined Ray at a pizza hut for a Western style dinner.
Now, about my cameo… the night before, when we were walking back to our hotel after dinner, as we were walking down a busy pedestrian-only street, people began gesturing at us vigorously. We had no idea what was going on, and saw lots of people standing on the sides of the street, as if watching something. At the last moment we moved to the side as well, and suddenly realized a group of teenagers (or people dressed as teenage schoolchildren) were racing down the street straight towards us… and they were being filmed! I have no idea if it was for a movie or a tv show, but we all thought that was pretty cool.
