Long Time No See

Mops, I think



Puuuush!!




About half of the factory. That's me on the right. The two buildings to the left and the one to the immediate right are factory type buildings. The edifice to the far right contains the offices, the engineerinf dept, and some storage. Directly ahead of me, and also the identical building behind me are dormitories. The bottom floor of each dorm is for eatin' and recreation, the second floor is the men's floor, and the third and fourth are for the ladies. If you follow the path in the left foreground around the building, through a locked door, and past the dogs, you'll get to the "other" dorm. The factory conditions are not bad and one floor of one building is even testing an A/C unit which will be fully implemented into the whole factory if it works well. My suggestion was to keep the fans 'cuz A/C is too expensive (and in my mind will raise the price of speakers) but I don't actually have much of a say. ;o)



A guy on a bike in China

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Yup, it's been a while since my last post. This is for a variety of reasons, but rest assured your favorite blog will be updated as often as possible.

Our second Shabbos in Hong Kong passed pretty uneventfully. Once again we davened and ate by the Sephardi shul. The most amazing thing about Shabbos there, is the rediculous (in a good way) spread these people produce each week. The sheer amount of food is mindboggling. (This week Friday night they served 3 kinds af fish including sushi, chicken, 5 kinds of dips, Sephardi stuff like cigars, kibbeh etc, roast, salad, taters and so on. Also, it all tastes so darn good. Although I certainly am not used to the Sephardic davening, the food makes it all worth it.

The Sephardi shul is located on the second floor of Wing-On plaza (a building) right in the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui which is in Kowloon which is in Hong Kong. There is also a new chabad house right nearby, but I'm perfectly happy where I am. HK also has 2 more shuls on it's island side. This past Shabbos there were about 75+ people in the Sephardi shul alone. (Pretty crazy if ya ask me.)

On Sunday afternoon, we took an express train back to Dong Guan, the city where the factory is located. The train ride from HK to DG is about 1 hr and 10 minutes. The factory has about 600 employees who work mornning to night making speakers. Twice a week they get off early from work (5:30 PM instead of 9:00 ) and relax and play basketball etc. Surprisingly, they are actually pretty good at it! Today we also moved into the dormitory. Our room is on the first floor and we have good beds, a private bathroom and shower, etc. It is all far better than I imagined it would be. I kinda wonder what it would be like to live in the real dorm with the factory workers instead of with the engineers.

The days here at the factory have thusfar been kind of boring. Although I initially was supposed to work in the engineering dept, the language barrier stops me. I often can get my ideas accross in somewhat passable Chinese, I really almost never comprehend the response that follows.

Chinese lessons have started, and like I feared the gap between Moshe and me is really to big for us to be taking lessons together. However, so far we have only had one lesson so I'll see how it goes from here.

There is more stuff I probably should post, but I am really tired so I give another crack at putting up those pictures.