An American Expat in China

 From May 5-16 students have been taking AP exams.  Because of this I was able to, pretty consistently, get out of work early. I also had a lot of free time at work. With that free time I took lots of naps and watched a lot of youtube videos.  I also found a nice place to get coffee near work called Gaia Cafe.  The place has a nice atmosphere with indoor and outdoor seating.  I consistently got coffee there almost every day for the last two weeks. For the first week I mostly just took the extra time to get to the gym early.  As such I was able to increase the intensity and duration of my workouts.  I even went on the weekend.  I am back down to 86 kilos! On Tuesday May 6th I got dinner with the guys group, and this time Faye was invited.  We went to Taal Indian restaurant in SeaWorld.  It was really good.  On Sunday May 11th I got my nails done.  For the second week I continued the fitness trend.   I usually just...

Over May's Labor Day holiday Faye and I finally finished the Maclehose Trail in Hong Kong.  This is the trail which we started, and finished the majority of, in the last week of January.  The full length was 100km, but over the four day holiday we completed the last 31.6 km (19.64 miles).  In January we had planned to hike all 100km over 6 days.  That did not happen.  We hiked section 1 and 2 in with full packs laden with camping gear, then hiked section 3 carrying the same packs.  That exhausted us so we decided to stay in a hotel and use it as a base to store our gear while we hiked section 5, 6, and 7 with day packs.  On that first trip we had hiked 52.2km over four days.   We returned in mid-March to complete section 4.   At last, in May of this year, we finished.  What we had set out to do in 6 days took us about 4 months to finish. We still consider it quite an accomplishment.   This was also our first time camp...