去年的這天,我們從墨爾本來到香港! Or in English: “A year ago today, we left Melbourne to come to Hong Kong!”
Check out a previous post on why we chose to relocate to Hong Kong. Time has flown and in this most memorable year yet, we’ve:
- joined and are actively serving in an awesome Christ-centred, family-oriented, and discipleship-focused church called ICA,
- had 58 visitors from overseas (some of whom have stayed with us)
- enjoyed the wondrous food from Food Capital of the world has to offer and have consequently added 86 HK restaurants/cafes to our not-yet-world renowned SGS Eateries Spreadsheet,
- grown to love the friends we’ve gotten to know at ICA and at our work places and enjoyed celebrating their birthdays, engagements and weddings,
- taken the opportunity to travel to Thailand, Macau, Xian (China – Sam only), Fukuoka (Japan), DongGuan & FoShan (China), Taipei (Taiwan),
- learned many new things including (being able to converse somewhat with the locals – Sam, of course; see some of his neat Canto-script), being a teacher (Sam – like his class website?), working in HK corporate (Steph), exploring more intricate cardmaking ideas (definitely Steph!), performing in a drama (both of us!),
- appreciated convenience (public transport here has a working schedule)
- survived a Typhoon 8 (which really means “Stay home, people”, but we watched a movie instead)
- and SO MUCH MORE!
We are really loving it here and our initial “2 year stay in HK” is soon becoming more like 3 now that Sam recently achieved a 3-year visa extension. Yes, we do miss our family, friends and fresh-air back in Melbourne… but for now, we do know we’re meant to be here for a while! We’ll end this post with our usual sign off: come visit us in HK! 🙂
it felt like 2 years!
By: ucheokeke on 23 April, 2012
at 6:42 am
Guys, this is beautiful:) Awesome:)
Thanks for being such a blessing to Hong Kong
By: Nicole on 23 April, 2012
at 12:18 pm
It seems extremely exciting,Sam!
By: Mary on 25 April, 2012
at 7:25 pm