The Dream Dance of a lifetime

New life in Hong Kong

Time skip.. Two years later.. It's been two years since I've moved to Hong Kong. I remember the memory box uncle Thor gave me as a gift. This memory box was a gift given to me when I was only a baby. I was 5 months old when I received this box and it's still important to me today. I opened up the memory box and saw all of my photos taken with all of my friends.

As a 16 year old girl, I still like to put my photos in the box. When I turn 18, I will create a big book of all memories and photos from when I was little and what I'm like then. Getting to school in Hong Kong was very convenient and easy. They have a great train system called Mass Transit Railway aka MTR, is the way that most young people travel to places. Getting the MTR is the best part of the day, mostly school students in Hong Kong get the MTR because it's easy and fast to get places and inside the MTR station there are little food shops and convenience stores to get before your journey. And I've got to say you can't eat or drink on the train.

I go from Kowloon where I live and disembark the train at Admiralty station to go to school which is five minutes away from the train station. Then I go from Admiralty, get off at Yau Ma Tei to change trains for Ho Man Tin where I get off at to go to Chinese and Math Tuition.

The Mid Autumn festival is nearly here. It's tomorrow and I can't wait until we have a family feast and indulge in mooncakes. Mooncakes were my least favourite treat when I was a kid, but when I discovered that it looked so beautiful on the imprint of Chinese characters or pictures told a story. Then when I tried mooncakes when I was 5, I loved the taste of them. The reason why I wasn't a fan of them when I was younger was because of seeing salt duck eggs being peeled.

What fascinated me the most was making mooncake dough, how golden it used to be and the sweet lotus paste that was the filling with a salted egg yolk in the middle. I didn't really like mooncakes as a little kid because I thought they would taste like egg and salt, but in reality the salted egg tastes sweet. When I got home from school today, mum was making mooncakes. So many trays of mooncakes ready to be baked filled the whole apartment kitchen and the smell of sweet lotus paste.

Mum comes from a Chinese family and the recipe that we use to make mooncakes came from my Great Grandmother who passed away two years before me and Ashley were born. The recipe is a family favourite for Chinese New Year and the Mid Autumn festival. So me and Sabrina are half Chinese and we love the Mid Autumn festival. There is going to be a gorgeous full moon tomorrow night and it's the 15th day of the 8th month. I love it when it's the full moon and there's mooncakes all over Hong Kong.