Back from Hong Kong
March 4, 2008 - 14.24So I was in Hong Kong for about a month and a half for various things – family events, Chinese New Year etc etc. I haven’t been there during the winter season in a LONG time and I really enjoyed the weather despite being unusually cold this year.
Moving on with life.. Well I was suppose to get some ideas, inspiration from this little trip of mine. That didn’t exactly happen entirely. I’ve taken an interest in mobile applications since I used a couple of handy ones in HK but nothing particularly concrete had formed in my mind. So.. what to do now? I was chatting with a friend of mine that had gone to teach English in Japan. In our conversation, I jokingly mentioned that maybe I should teach in Japan as well. (Definitely not happening as I can’t teach to save my life.) But my friend told me of an organization, SWAP, here that helps young people go on ‘working holidays’. Basically, SWAP helps you get a working visa in your destination country so you can work to finance your vacation wherever you go. It sounds like an interesting idea in and would work nicely in my somewhat ‘plan-less’ life at the moment. I browsed around the website and there are a number of destinations to choose from, covering all continents. I was particularly interested in Japan and thank god it wasn’t tie to teaching! Other places includes Britian, Ireland, Australia, US.
Next day, I chatted with another friend who’s in HK and told her about wanting to have a working holiday. It turns out that she had previously gone to a talk about such schemes in HK. It was for New Zealand. I half-jokingly asked her to quit her job and we’ll go to New Zealand together. She seemed to be rather displeased with her current job and agreed. I think it’ll be a great experience and quite an adventure. I’ll research more about it before making a final decision. I also briefly mentioned it to my parents last night over dinner and they don’t seem to have much of a reaction over it. Maybe I didn’t sound very serious?
