Miracle on Paterson Street

A miracle has happened in Eastern Asia. After only three days of easy shopping, Andrew and I have found an apartment on Hong Kong Island. Comparatively, a British girl at our school has been looking for three weeks and is still homeless. After we made an offer on the place we were out bid but then gained it back. So knowing that it was a hot find, we emptied our bank accounts and rushed to make a deposit after work. We only had enough for about half of the deposit, but a wink at Ivy, our landlord, smoothed everything out.

Our place is in an area called Causeway Bay, which is just east of Central Hong Kong. Twenty-seven floors below home is the central shopping area for all of Hong Kong with virtually every store you see in Soho or Fifth Avenue. A Starbucks is conveniently located across the street and there is a 24-hour supermarket in our building. I guess its worth mentioning that we have a view of the harbor out of our apartment, but it hardly compares with my view of Manhattan from Jersey.

Unfortunately, we can’t move into the apartment until October 1, but there is an empty apartment at the end of the hall that we can have on Sunday. The living room provides ample space for guests and our first major purchase will be a sofa bed for all of our Asia-bound friends.