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Day 2





My Journey...

 Before I harp on about my journey to and from work, today I was pretty excited to be contacted by South China Morning Post asking for an interview and photoshoot to be used in an article this week.  Watch this space! 
My typical journey to and from work costs $25.  This week it costs just $8.30. 

 My journey to work taking the number 10 minibus directly to school  ($12.50) has been swapped to having breakfast on the 23 double decker to Pok Fu Lam road ($6.00) followed by a 15 minute walk. The total journey time is only 45 minutes in comparison to the original 35 minutes so I don't feel like its a bad swap considering I do enjoy a stroll (ask me again when its raining).  This morning's walk really got me thinking about how lucky I am.  Valuable thinking time which is often missed in place of being a phone zombie on the minibus.

The journey home is somewhat more of a trek.  I say trek in born-in-HK-spoilt-by-transport-options terms - just look at the picture above, pretty far from terrible.  I walk 25 minutes to Kennedy Town to catch the $2.30 tram home. 

 The tram is breezy and relaxing but it does take an hour on the tram before I get home- much of the time being spent moving at snail pace between Admiralty and Wan Chai.  Total journey time has gone from 40 minutes to 90 minutes. It's fine - I don't have anything else to do!!  And getting on at the start of the line means the best seats in the house. 


8:30pm - bed time. One thing remains the same this week... the 4:45am alarm. More on the reasons behind this and how another aspect has had to change in tomorrows post.

 Good night!  

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