Well, it's been a fairly up and down day as my flight from Newcastle to Amsterdam was slightly delayed due to the amazing weather Newcastle received... Lightning and thunder, rain and wind, what more could an excited traveller like myself want? A delayed flight? Well, why not! May as well! Damn. Anyway, got here fine, the plane was on time from Amsterdam to Hong Kong but there was a slight scare when the air stewardess announced that some people's connecting flights were going to leave without them, luckily mine wasn't on the list... Thank god, I would have been one day late to HK I imagine if that happened! So I got here in the afternoon and tried to use the sim card my mum gave mr, turns out it wasn't working. Things were just starting to get worse... I used the airport courtesy phone to call up my friend Jacky, whose place was offered to me as accomodation for my two months here, and to my dismay he couldn't pick me up from the airport as agreed. Shucks. Got the taxi eventually and got settled down in his cosy home in Sai Kung to the eastern coast of Kowloon (miles from the city centre). So anyway, I get sorted and leave for the centre which turns out isn't really that far from SK, around 30mins in the mini bus to Mong Kok so not as bad as I thought it would be! I reached MK at about 6pm and ti my dismay, I seemed to have taken less money out than I needed so I guess I didn't have much to work with so just window shopping around Sneaker St and Tung Choi St. I eventually got myself a sim card for my phone and with 3G giving me the power of data!!! I was back, and connected to the world again, I felt like I was home. I went round to Kwai Hing to pick up my girl as well as see her for the first time in around 10 months... It has been quite the moment I've been waiting for! Excited and flustered by the heat I decided to go wait at the tower building she works at. It was a pretty long wait, and to make it worse the time we spent apart coupled with the anticipation, every minute seemed likr a year... We met up eventually and I guess it was good. Not sure whether it was because I was over excited or maybe just because the time apart made things worse, but I felt uneasy inside yet I was extremely glad... Dinner was at her home with her parents as well, was good bit with me being just off the plane and a bit tired I felt I couldn't eat much, I think my body is playing up again.. :/ By this time, typhoon one was in effect in HK and it was said on tv that typhoon eight was going to be in effect at 1120pm, so I decided to leave to get back to SK at 1030pm, but I was too late. By the time I got downstairs of her home, it was windy like no tomorrow, the rain was just as bad, I felt as if someone had just splashed a bucketful of water over me... Then I got a call from my girl telling me to stay the night instead.if going back to SK which would have taken ages, so I stayed. Uneventful night really, but before sleeping, I received a message from JK saying that results emails were out and being the impatient person that I am, I opened up my email and looked. I just couldn't resist a peek. I almost died. I couldn't believe my eyes and what I read, I had failed both Jurisprudence and Wills and Estates. The first thing that came to mind was emotional breakdown, I had spent so much energy and effort on my Jurisprudence essay yet all I received in return was a measly 35 marks... I can't describe the feeling but I knew that this was going to jeopardize my two month holiday in HK and I knew the shit was going to hit the fan with my parents... I've yet to tell them. My options now are to return early back to the UK or do my assignments here in HK but to be honest, it was hard enough doing it back home, it would be near impossible to get it done here... I am destined to return early I think.
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