ISTM in Hong Kong

Even if Hong Kong is an amazing city, you may, as many people here, experience homesick...

First, I would like to thank Derek, our Intercultural Management teacher, for giving us this marvellous link before our departures :

http://international.ouc.bc.ca/cultureshock/printext.htm

This reading has been very helpful for me...but also for the other exchange students I met here :)
It is about culture shock and what you experience when you are abroad.

So when you are in the Valley of Despair, take it easy ! Be nice with yourself ! Everybody can have homesick, even an overseas Chinese girl in Hong Kong ! And feel free to write to your friends who are still in your homecountry, to ask for postcards and other good things !

Merci beaucoup beaucoup Caro :) !
Thank you for the beautiful pictures of my missing France !

http://www.arnaudfrichphoto.com/index-noflash.html

And even if dairy products are so expensive here (a Camembert costs around 70-80 HK$ or 7-8 euros !!!), enjoy a dinner of bread, French cheese and wine with the other exchange students !

Hong Kong belongs to China since 1997. French people do not need any visa to visit Hong Kong as tourists... but they do if they want to travel around China, they need a tourist visa...

So where can you get a tourist visa for China ?

1) From the Chinese Embassy in France...but I personally do not recommand it... I think the visa would be more expensive if you get it in France...

2) In Hong Kong...but where ? I was told that the prices vary a lot here... so go to :

Japan Travel Agency Ltd
Travel Agency license no 350361

Room 509-513 East Ocean Centre
98 Granville road
Tsim Shat Tsui (TST)
Kowloon

Tel : 2368 9151
Fax : 2368 9006

Office hour : Mon-Fri 9:00~12:00 , 14:00~18:00 / Sat 9:00~12:00
(close on Sunday and public holiday)

TO go over there, take the MTR (subway) or the KCR until Tsim Shat Tsui.
Go to the East Ocean Centre.
The travel agency is on the 5th floor.

You can get a China visa in two days :
- multiple entry for 450 HK$ (45 euros)
- 2 entries for 300 HK$ (30 euros)
- single entry for 200 HK$ (20 euros)

Just go with your passport and a photography.
And after picking up your visa, enjoy Mainland China !