get this party started

So I'm back in Hong Kong now. It took a week for me to get my laptop connected to the Internet here. But here I am. No pics yet -- I've still got to get my digital camera working again. No, people don't tend to mention my name and "tech-savvy" in the same sentence!

So then why am I, this non-technical person, starting up a blog? To answer, let me give you a quick summary of my current life. I am an American who recently moved from Boston to Hong Kong. I moved here not because of career, but because of a long-standing desire to get in touch with my Chinese roots. I'm studying the local Chinese "dialect", Cantonese, full-time at a local university. I live in a Chinese working-class neighborhood. I live with a grandfather who doesn't speak a word of English. My current life, therefore, is a mix of traditional Chinese customs that are new to me and of modern Western customs I am deeply familiar with. It is this mix of the Chinese and the Western that many people back in America ask me about. Through this blog, in words and pictures, I hope to give my friends and relatives an indication of my life, my experiences here in Hong Kong.