Egle & pieces of my life: January 2007

LT vs HK

When tea becomes soy milk and fields turn into mountains...

...when ravens turn into eagles and wolves into dragons...

...when 'labas rytas' turns into 'dzhou san'...

My Heart Still Stays in My Chest

Rushing Hong Kong

Firstly - a bit (very) late but sincere - congrats on New (Western) 2007!!! I guess it is time for new dose of stories from my life, as time does fly - faster and faster...

Adapt me – I realised that no matter how many words I will learn in Cantonese, it won't help at all, as each time I use a wrong tone out of those 9 ones.. Although everyone is eating sooo loud – that is not so easy to learn.

Somehow I get more air than food… Despite those mentioned above, I am becoming real HKer – 'All Stars' snickers, huge bag with something even bigger hanging on it and a small paper bag to carry what does not fit into big one, MP4 player, striped T-shirt, doing make-up in a minibus, shopping after work and really enjoying food… Brr :D

The army of Holiday Pluses – thanks God they are no longer multiplying in

geometrical order, otherwise, I would go insane. However, I still see/ do/ experience in one week more, than I would in several months back home.

Christmas was great – I made 80 sweat and soft buns with jam called “Cold Noses” ("Saltanosiai"), it took me 5 hours, but I made them! And now I understand why my grandma makes them only once a year :) I also made “Lithuanian white salad”. Or at least something that looked.. white :D There were no green pees and marinated cucumbers in it.

So Christmas with interns was real fiest with Nigerian rice, Canadian turkey, Slovakian sauer kraut soup, Hungarian meat and HK fish balls, desert from Kyrgyzstan, etc. And traditional (if you can call plastic straws instead of ray 'traditional') Lithuanian fortune telling enthusiastically introduced by Jurgita and even more enthusiastically accepted by guests.

On Christmas day we also did some hiking on Dragon Back and chose this attraction as an interesting possibility to meet New Year. You can't imagine how crazy bunch of foreigners with lighters in the forests climbing up the hills in the middle of the night look like :D Drinking champagne in huge wind on the top of a mountain.. It was amazing, although at the same time very strange - we haven't seen a single firework.

Small drops of memories - a little bit

of piercing to make my life more crazy.. Drinking hot soy milk - available only in HK, only in winter. Flying kite, blowing bubbles and eating ice-cream in a Waterfront park on the last day of 2006. Taking a refreshing swim in a sea on the first day of 2007. Catching a mouse in our house with banana trap.

Facilitating in Winter National Conference for future interns - I guess it was more useful for me, then for them

(Nadya, Alvin & Sefan - it was great to work with you guys!). Getting a little bit of water, while representing international candidate for MC elections (now I know how it feels - it feels strange). Laughing with amazing MBA students and their great support - unforgettable time.

Saturday breakfast each time becoming sweeter and sweeter :) Playing golf for the first time - it's easy to get addicted! Hiking in amazingly beautiful beaches and forests, climbing up the hills in white mist. New interns - rrr, fresh blood :D Mantas arrival to Hong Kong - aaahhh!!! Talking to him made me realise, that I have not seen myself for 4 months - I missed myself.. But much more - my friends.

Rush into future - I'm going to the concert that I have never thought I

will see in my life! Together with other interns I'll do several team buildings for AIESEC in HK. After a week my aunt and uncle arrives - can't wait to see Beijing!!! Great Wall - I am coming :D And then - Chinese New Year with pigs, red pockets, fireworks (finally!!) and crowds of people.