Category: assignment1

MY IMAGINARY HONG KONG

Seven and eight years ago I visited Paris and London for the first time in my life.

In Paris I saw a Chinese New Year’s Parade. To me, it was  fascinating. Their complex costumes, dragon kites and the pride they took in their tradition really touched me. While watching the parade, I felt like slipping into another world, which resembles a fairytale where people are gracious, wear bewitched costumes and unusual, but beautiful, makeup.

My first trip to London was dominated by one area called China Town. My mom and I were so fascinated by all the things we saw there. Stores with ducks hanging in front of the windows, Hello Kitty candy everywhere, which was rare to find in Switzerland, hairdressers doing only special Chinese haircuts, apples so red and shiny, how we’ve never seen them before, food so healthy and tasty, no matter how much we were eating of it, we never felt sick or tired of it and in the whole of China Town we were surrounded my Chinese lanterns.

That was my first real encounter with Chinese culture.

 

My Hong Kong Poem:

I imagine Hong Kong like a city where modernity and tradition meet.

Maybe like New York, a City which never sleeps.

Water is little and rice is rich

People are rushing, no one sits

 

Street lights follow  wherever you go

A pulsating vibe surrounds you and you feel the glow

Healthiness which brings the tradition is an invisible law

People scared wearing masks to protect it all

How Hanz see Switzerland

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Switzerland reminded me the extreme cold weather and snow.

This photo was taken in the  one of the coldest night.
Though I believe that Switzerland is much colder than I expect.

And I’ve never see snow.

Therefore I tried to find something that looks like snow in Hong Kong.

The glass lights.

 

 

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Switzerland reminded me the schweizer armeemesser.

Which is the first Switzerland product i met in my life.

 

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Switzerland reminded me the nature.

I heard the view of mountains is grand and uniquely spectacular.
It’s my honor to see these views.

Imagine Zwitzerland

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The top drawing is showing The Court of Final Appeal Building. It located in Hong Kong Central and was designed as a British architecture. I just imagine some of important Zurich buildings are built in this western style with a rectangular and symmetrical pattern. Also, there is hanging some national flags to show its significance.

And The bottom one is Yuen Long, a new developing city in Hong Kong. It is near to China Shenzhen and suburbs. You can see there are a large pieces of some beautiful clouds and some lower density buildings in Hong Kong as the form of Zurich I believed to be. There are a lot of beautiful environments with plants.

switerzerland at home

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(left: pencil rubbing of a biscuit made from Switzerland;
right: a postcard from a friend)
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conversation with mom
(mom: m ; winnie: w)
w: mom,  do we have anything at home made in Switzerland?
m: army knives, watches… why ask?
w: assignment. anything you don’t mind me playing with, like something you won’t be upset if i… accidentally break it.
m: no? wait… the biscuits i bought weeks before seems to be from somewhere in Europe… check if it’s Switzerland.
w: is ikea from Switzerland?
m: it is from Sweden. Sweden and Switzerland is different.
w: is Switzerland famous for making cool electronics?
m: i guess you mean Germany…
w: …opps.
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