Another great thing about HKUST is that they do so much for their exchange students! (It must have something to do with the fact that we make up about 15% of their student body.)
Monday after class the dean of the business school, Steve DeKrey, invited us to his apartment for a cocktail party before the welcome extravaganza the school had organized for us. Those amazing harbor views are from his balcony.
The extravaganza was a quasi-Chinese New Year, quasi-Lantern Festival celebration, so the silver lion danced (quite coyly, I might add), the undergrads did a martial arts exhibition (with types of cutlery I have never seen before), we answered riddles that were pasted around the wall (normally they hang from lanterns), and they overfed us (again with delicious, dining hall food - I know, normally that's an oxymoron).
I don't remember any of the riddles now (I was a few glasses of wine in by the time we were doing them), but we should be getting them back with the answers and the de-riddling winner, so I will post them then. They were tough - but Denise and I were the clear winners, so I'm just waiting to see what our prize is.
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