Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
1 day left in home country
The life used to be gonna finish but the new life is gonna start!
To continue the last topic, let's talk about what have I got from the student handbook especially for our culture here in Hong Kong:
Stare insieme (stay together)
1. Young Italians talk a lot in the afternoon about what they are going to do at night, but RARELY ever do what they had planned.
2. They tend to go to a bar (Italian bars are completely different from Hong Kong bars, they are more like snack bars), a pizzeria, or a birreria, a discoteca, a festa.
Bella figura (Impression :a concept and a way of life that pervades Italian society)
1. For preventing brutta figure (making a bad impression), don't being poorly or unsuitably dressed for social functions;
2. Don't getting drunk;
3. Don't being socially "cold" (not greeting people, not shaking hands with people you have already met).
Greeting people
1. Depending on the time of day, say "buon giorno" or "buona sera" for both "hello" and " goodbye".
2. "Ciao" is used only if you are addressing a younger person, a contemporary, for a person you are very well acquainted with; it's rude if used otherwise.
3. Women very often kiss even at the farewell of the first encounter, although the kiss is more like touching each other's cheeks.
Italian family
1. Communicate openly, talk as much as possible about ours doubts, ideas, plans, make them aware of our feelings, tell them about our moments of joy as well as discomfort.
2. Be sensitive when looking for our own privacy or moments of solitude. Explain them that it's because of our needs not because we feel uncomfortable to be around them.
3. It's quite a common for Italian children to exchange and use another's belongings.
4. Remember to spend a some time with the children in the family because they have great expectations about our arrival and will be very disappointed if we ignore them.
5. Scolding means caring.
6. For the very beginning, ask to be given small household responsibilities: apparecciare (to set the table), sparecciare (to clean off the table), lavare e asciugare i piatti (to wash and dry the dishes), mettere in ordine la tua stanza (to keep your room in order), innaffiare le piante (to water the plants), portare fuori le immondizie (to take out the trash), lavare la tua biancheria (to wash your laundry)...
E' buona educazione (good manners)
1. Shouldn't walk around in bare feet either in the house or outside.
2. Don't put the feet on chairs, couches, or tables.
3. Don't go out with wet hair.
4. Don't close ourselves in our room unless it's to sleep or to study.
5. Exchange greeting with family in the morning, before leaving the house, before sleeping.
6. Don't take food from the refrigerator without asking first.
7. Don't bring home friends with asking permission first.
For the other differences, I will experience and then tell you!
Complicated feeling in my mind: excited and anxious for the new environment; sad and uneasy to leave my friends!
To continue the last topic, let's talk about what have I got from the student handbook especially for our culture here in Hong Kong:
Stare insieme (stay together)
1. Young Italians talk a lot in the afternoon about what they are going to do at night, but RARELY ever do what they had planned.
2. They tend to go to a bar (Italian bars are completely different from Hong Kong bars, they are more like snack bars), a pizzeria, or a birreria, a discoteca, a festa.
Bella figura (Impression :a concept and a way of life that pervades Italian society)
1. For preventing brutta figure (making a bad impression), don't being poorly or unsuitably dressed for social functions;
2. Don't getting drunk;
3. Don't being socially "cold" (not greeting people, not shaking hands with people you have already met).
Greeting people
1. Depending on the time of day, say "buon giorno" or "buona sera" for both "hello" and " goodbye".
2. "Ciao" is used only if you are addressing a younger person, a contemporary, for a person you are very well acquainted with; it's rude if used otherwise.
3. Women very often kiss even at the farewell of the first encounter, although the kiss is more like touching each other's cheeks.
Italian family
1. Communicate openly, talk as much as possible about ours doubts, ideas, plans, make them aware of our feelings, tell them about our moments of joy as well as discomfort.
2. Be sensitive when looking for our own privacy or moments of solitude. Explain them that it's because of our needs not because we feel uncomfortable to be around them.
3. It's quite a common for Italian children to exchange and use another's belongings.
4. Remember to spend a some time with the children in the family because they have great expectations about our arrival and will be very disappointed if we ignore them.
5. Scolding means caring.
6. For the very beginning, ask to be given small household responsibilities: apparecciare (to set the table), sparecciare (to clean off the table), lavare e asciugare i piatti (to wash and dry the dishes), mettere in ordine la tua stanza (to keep your room in order), innaffiare le piante (to water the plants), portare fuori le immondizie (to take out the trash), lavare la tua biancheria (to wash your laundry)...
E' buona educazione (good manners)
1. Shouldn't walk around in bare feet either in the house or outside.
2. Don't put the feet on chairs, couches, or tables.
3. Don't go out with wet hair.
4. Don't close ourselves in our room unless it's to sleep or to study.
5. Exchange greeting with family in the morning, before leaving the house, before sleeping.
6. Don't take food from the refrigerator without asking first.
7. Don't bring home friends with asking permission first.
For the other differences, I will experience and then tell you!
Complicated feeling in my mind: excited and anxious for the new environment; sad and uneasy to leave my friends!
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Are you ready?
Oooops, my stuff..........is still not yet packed, and
departure is coming soon! I can't believe so.
From considering study in Italy, applying for AFS program, having numerous of interviews, duelling with school till today, the 5th of September, 4 days left for departure, it seems it's just a dream. If it is, please don't wake me up!!!!
Just met the host family with Skype. It was my first time to meet papa! And, there were lots of their friends. It was kinda of Italian style meeting with big meal, I think, because it's Saturday now in Italy and they have no work next day. It's really different from Hong Kong's style one. Hong Kongese offen have to work on Sundays. Even there isn't work, it's less frequent for them to invite friends to home and have a big meal. We usually stay indoor on Sundays and seldom go to do any family activities.
After reading of the guide book, I've found some points that I'm better to pay attention.
(Continue next time.)
departure is coming soon! I can't believe so.
From considering study in Italy, applying for AFS program, having numerous of interviews, duelling with school till today, the 5th of September, 4 days left for departure, it seems it's just a dream. If it is, please don't wake me up!!!!
Just met the host family with Skype. It was my first time to meet papa! And, there were lots of their friends. It was kinda of Italian style meeting with big meal, I think, because it's Saturday now in Italy and they have no work next day. It's really different from Hong Kong's style one. Hong Kongese offen have to work on Sundays. Even there isn't work, it's less frequent for them to invite friends to home and have a big meal. We usually stay indoor on Sundays and seldom go to do any family activities.
After reading of the guide book, I've found some points that I'm better to pay attention.
(Continue next time.)
Saturday, August 28, 2010
10 days left in home country
Ooooops! 10 days left here but my list to be done is not that desirable.
1.Something very important to prepared is language--Italian. The longer time I've learned Italian, the more dispirited to know how terrible is my Italian. However, I must stay still and learn. I have no choice, my host family can't communicate rather than Italian. So depressed that it's kind of motion of learning lol
2.Just checked out the 'packing list' in the facebook group by other exchange students, and discovered many items I didn't think of. Something like shampoo, hair dryer, toothpaste, laptop, "chewing gum for flight (or train)", etc. Anyway, I'm not the amazing one, hahahaaa....
3.I haven't met many friends during the vocation so I decide to go to school on the 1st of September (the beginning of the school year in Hong Kong) even I am a "rusticated" student. Another reason to intrude into my school: to meet the exchange student also come with AFS from Germany!
4,5,6,7,8,9........
Sighhhh, just take the world as it is!
Italy, I am coming! <3
1.Something very important to prepared is language--Italian. The longer time I've learned Italian, the more dispirited to know how terrible is my Italian. However, I must stay still and learn. I have no choice, my host family can't communicate rather than Italian. So depressed that it's kind of motion of learning lol
2.Just checked out the 'packing list' in the facebook group by other exchange students, and discovered many items I didn't think of. Something like shampoo, hair dryer, toothpaste, laptop, "chewing gum for flight (or train)", etc. Anyway, I'm not the amazing one, hahahaaa....
3.I haven't met many friends during the vocation so I decide to go to school on the 1st of September (the beginning of the school year in Hong Kong) even I am a "rusticated" student. Another reason to intrude into my school: to meet the exchange student also come with AFS from Germany!
4,5,6,7,8,9........
Sighhhh, just take the world as it is!
Italy, I am coming! <3
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Strange feeling's following me
Sorry for late update, I am unbelievable busy these days. Less than half of a month left in Hong Kong! Everything seems running smooth compare with the other as some of the exchange students here from Hong Kong haven't received their host information yet. Bless for them.
Yeh. Strange feeling's following me. I've found joy here but leaving soon; the willingness of leaving is decreasing while willingness of exploring new life is growing. Rather than the physical preparation (packing, applying visa...), I've found that I didn't prepare my mentality very well as I thought. Before, I thought of many defects of staying in Hong Kong and I've never thought of how nice is Hong Kong, just kept telling "I won't miss HK and HK is crowded, terribly polluted bahbahbahhhh...." "Suffering with staying in HK and waiting for departure!" but while the date of departure is coming, everything is changing in my mind. During these last days in Hong Kong, I drink as much as HK typical cold lemon tea, with less sugar and ice (凍檸荼少糖少冰); I eat different kinds of instant noodles as much as I can even I don't really like them just because I think I can't have them in Italy; I shops as much as I can even my legs are gonna be broken; I sleep as least as I can cause (I think) I will be stoped to do so in Italy; I call my friends as frequent as I can even they maybe grumble with it; I speak in Cantonese as much as I can because I won't get the chance to speak it anymore in future 10 months; I laugh as lound as I can because I want to tell everyone that I've finally found that I love Hong Kong.
I hate saying goodbye. Everyone is leaving Hong Kong and told "Goodbye, see you." I hope as but we know that it's obviously impossible. I miss them all as we spent wonderful moment together. Yeah, you guys Fabrice, Kevin, Jolie, Julien, Maxime, Stephanie, Adélaïde, Arv, Jens, Norah, Dounia...... who taught me how to become a good girl, ahahaha.
Some more ladies nights please!
Yeh. Strange feeling's following me. I've found joy here but leaving soon; the willingness of leaving is decreasing while willingness of exploring new life is growing. Rather than the physical preparation (packing, applying visa...), I've found that I didn't prepare my mentality very well as I thought. Before, I thought of many defects of staying in Hong Kong and I've never thought of how nice is Hong Kong, just kept telling "I won't miss HK and HK is crowded, terribly polluted bahbahbahhhh...." "Suffering with staying in HK and waiting for departure!" but while the date of departure is coming, everything is changing in my mind. During these last days in Hong Kong, I drink as much as HK typical cold lemon tea, with less sugar and ice (凍檸荼少糖少冰); I eat different kinds of instant noodles as much as I can even I don't really like them just because I think I can't have them in Italy; I shops as much as I can even my legs are gonna be broken; I sleep as least as I can cause (I think) I will be stoped to do so in Italy; I call my friends as frequent as I can even they maybe grumble with it; I speak in Cantonese as much as I can because I won't get the chance to speak it anymore in future 10 months; I laugh as lound as I can because I want to tell everyone that I've finally found that I love Hong Kong.
I hate saying goodbye. Everyone is leaving Hong Kong and told "Goodbye, see you." I hope as but we know that it's obviously impossible. I miss them all as we spent wonderful moment together. Yeah, you guys Fabrice, Kevin, Jolie, Julien, Maxime, Stephanie, Adélaïde, Arv, Jens, Norah, Dounia...... who taught me how to become a good girl, ahahaha.
Some more ladies nights please!
Friday, July 16, 2010
Discovery
http://www.afs.org.hk/hkg_ch/news/article/10913
Yuki Hui
2010/2011 前往意大利
個子小小又文靜的 Yuki 在熱情的意大利人堆中會發生甚麼有趣的事情呢？
http://yukinitalia.blogspot.com/
http://www.afs.org.hk/hkg_en/news/article/10914
Yuki Hui
2010/2011 to Italy
Yuki looks so tiny and quiet among the Italians! What are they going to say about her?
http://yukinitalia.blogspot.com/
Maybe I am tiny but I think I am not quiet at all. Haha
On the contrary, let's follow all of us from Hong Kong to different countries in the following year.
Angela Li
2010/2011 to USA
Sixteen-year-old Angela enjoys singing and playing badminton. Will she become more independent and confident after the one year exchange program?
http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/angela-0
Steve Wong
2010/2011 to Argentina
Steve is a F.4 graduate from Ying Wah College. He likes all sorts of sports and love to have fun. What is he going to do in the far away Argentina?
http://steveargentina.blogspot.com/
Joey Liu
2010/2011 to Norway
This is the first time ever for Joey to live away from her parents. What will this cheerful young lady encounter in the country far far away?
http://joeyinnorway.blogspot.com/
Thursday, July 8, 2010
New post new start
Hey i am Yuki from Hong Kong and writing this blog for recording whole adventure of my exchange program to ITALY! Let's know more about me. I'm just a 16 years-old 'little' girl who is studying secondary school form four (same as high school year1). I like cooking, daydreaming, meeting new friends and exploring new environment. Probably, this program suit me as well. Joining the exchange program is partly because I am infected by my Italian friends who joins the exchange program 2009-2010 to Hong Kong. They let me recognize cultural difference and the advantages (/disadvantages) of being an exchange student. Anyway, I think it will a remarkable year of my life.
I am going to a town named Avezzano where happened a serious earthquake in 2009 and it is said that the buildings were badly destroyed lol. I will live with host parents and a 12 years-old sister. I am worried about that because I am not good at staying with someone who is younger than me but I hope everything will run smooth!
PS1.Going to apply the Visa next week and get the document in Wan Chai, it's annoying!
PS2.It's a 'big surprise' to see my name on AFS hong kong official website.
Good night
Yuki
I am going to a town named Avezzano where happened a serious earthquake in 2009 and it is said that the buildings were badly destroyed lol. I will live with host parents and a 12 years-old sister. I am worried about that because I am not good at staying with someone who is younger than me but I hope everything will run smooth!
PS1.Going to apply the Visa next week and get the document in Wan Chai, it's annoying!
PS2.It's a 'big surprise' to see my name on AFS hong kong official website.
Good night
Yuki
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