{"id":4308,"date":"2015-03-14T16:31:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/?p=4308"},"modified":"2015-03-25T10:13:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T10:13:30","slug":"traveling-around-hong-kong-china-the-life-of-an-international-school-teacher-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/traveling-around-hong-kong-china-the-life-of-an-international-school-teacher-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Around: Hong Kong, China (The life of an international school teacher is good!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get inspired to make your next travel plan!<\/p>\n

Traveling Around:\u00a0Hong Kong,\u00a0China<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can you relate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Being overwhelmed by the thousands\u00a0of people you see as you are getting out of the metro system.
\n\u2022 Trying your best to just walk in a straight line on a sidewalk because of all the people around you trying to also walk in a straight line to their destination.
\n\u2022 Enjoying the wonderful view of the mountains and sea and thinking how nice it would be to live here.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Keeping your head looking up to the sky\u00a0as you are walking around the city because of all the amazingly tall\u00a0skyscrapers.
\n\u2022 Finding it very cool to get the chance to walk into a little temple and observe the locals in a non-obtrusive way.
\n\u2022 Being surprised to find that the normal grocery stores here have a wide range of products, including many products from my home country. How nice!
\n\u2022 Walking around the city and randomly running into the local zoo, realizing it is free and taking advantage of looking at all the cool animals on offer.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Loving looking at all the large signs on each street, how they jet out over the streets.
\n\u2022 Eating at a more ‘local’ restaurant and getting the chance to eat some of the seasonal dishes on offer.
\n\u2022 Finding out that expats here can go to mainland China for some time, to go shopping, without having a tourist visa.
\n\u2022 Feeling\u00a0lucky to go up to the peak on a cloudless, sunny day. The view is really outstanding.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Running into a school that had outside walls that were so colorful and inviting.
\n\u2022 Riding on the old trams in the downtown area and finding out that they were shipped over long ago from somewhere in the UK I think.
\n\u2022 Taking a ride on a smaller city bus and seeing that there was a number sign telling how fast that the driver was driving.
\n\u2022 Enjoying eating at the non-restaurants places, like the ones that just have take-away food available, such tasty food!<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Being astounded hearing about how much apartments actually cost there, so expensive!
\n\u2022 Hearing Cantonese being spoken through the city, but then not really meeting anyone that didn’t also speak English.
\n\u2022 Finding it surprising how much there was discrimination between Hong Kongers and mainland Chinese people.<\/p>\n

Currently we have 29 international schools listed in Hong Kong\u00a0on\u00a0International School Community<\/a>. Here are the ones that have had comments submitted on them:<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0American International School (Hong Kong)\u00a0<\/a>(Hong Kong, China)<\/span>\u00a0–\u00a024 Comments<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Hong Kong Academy Primary School\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>(Hong Kong, China)<\/span>\u00a0–\u00a034 Comments<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Hong Kong International School\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>(Hong Kong, China)<\/span>\u00a0–\u00a062 Comments<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>International Christian School (Hong Kong)\u00a0<\/a>(Hong Kong, China)<\/span>\u00a0–\u00a019 Comments<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Singapore International School (Hong Kong)\u00a0<\/a>(Hong Kong, China)<\/span>\u00a0–\u00a014 Comments<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Yew Chung International School (Hong Kong)\u00a0<\/a>(Hong Kong, China)<\/span>\u00a0–\u00a017 Comments<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you are on a trip\u00a0right now, away from your host country, write to us at\u00a0admin@internationalschoolcommunity.com<\/a>\u00a0with your “Can you relate?” traveling experiences.\u00a0 Tell us where you are traveling in the world, what you are seeing and how you are coping with any culture shock.\u00a0 Once your\u00a0Traveling Around<\/em>\u00a0experience\u00a0is posted\u00a0on our blog, International School Community will give you\u00a0SIX\u00a0free months of premium membership<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get inspired to make your next travel plan! Traveling Around:\u00a0Hong Kong,\u00a0China Can you relate? \u2022 Being overwhelmed by the thousands\u00a0of people you see as you are getting out of the metro system. \u2022 Trying your best to just walk in a straight line on a sidewalk because of all the people around you trying to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50],"tags":[2083,2082,2081,2078,128,186,535,2077,2076,287,1384],"class_list":["post-4308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traveling-around","tag-cantonese","tag-chinese","tag-chinese-culture","tag-exploring-the-world","tag-hong-kong","tag-international-school-teacher","tag-life-of-an-international-teacher","tag-not-saving-money","tag-spending-money","tag-traveling","tag-traveling-the-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSC_9666.jpg?fit=1280%2C866&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2flVT-17u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6861,"url":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/traveling-around-zhouzhuang-china-the-life-of-an-international-school-teacher-is-good\/","url_meta":{"origin":4308,"position":0},"title":"Traveling Around: Zhouzhuang, China (The life of an international school teacher is good!)","author":"ISCommunity","date":"June 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Traveling Around: Zhouzhuang, China Can you relate? 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