Stuff I learned yesterday

• Up escalators are on the left side.
• The Chinese characters for two, six, seven, day and month. And I can recognize the ones for Hong Kong. (I studied a nutrition label, some money, and a brochure to figure them out)

• The awesomeness of octopus cards. Buses need exact fare, but if you just wave your octopus over the scanner--bingo. Also for subways, and convenience stores, vending machines...
  
• Not to order the fried egg, luncheon meat and rice meal ever again. Although it was an interesting experience--I think I know how American Chinese food must taste to the native Chinese. Or the food at the canteen could just be untasty in general.
  
• How to eat a slice of ham with chopsticks. Fold it into fourths and then pick it up.
  
• The location of the main building, where I need to be later today.
  
• Plastic ten-dollar bills.

• How to get to the Tuen Mun shopping center.
• I can buy more water, cheaper and in niftier containers. The below bottle of water would have cost me about 32 cents in U.S. dollars if a friend had not bought it for me.

• For the exchange students from the Mainland, Tuen Mun does not feel crowded or busy.
• How to say the following in Mandarin (although I have forgotten some since then): hello, no, yes, get off my back, did you enjoy yourself?, United States, China, England, conceited
• My door does not automatically lock behind me like I'm used to. Thus, I can't lock myself out by forgetting my key inside like I did several times this summer
• Telephone numbers have eight digits