May 24, 2004
It is hot and humid here, as it usually is during the summer. It is also the city China would love to be like. I did get to the Scout shop last night, and you will have new slides when I return.
Hong Kong consists of over 200 islands. Yesterday, some of the students and I took a ferry to one of the outlying islands where we ate at a fresh fish restaurant–lobster, grouper, joined minced quail and roasted chicken. I doubt that 1% of the 16 million tourists ever get off Hong Kong (the main island) or the Kowloon peninsula. Ninety percent come only to shop.