sam girton

Aug 4, 2009
I just finished putting together this video which shows some of the highlights of our stay in Hong Kong.



Aug 2, 2009, 10:20am, Sunday
We have been in Hong Kong for the past week and I've been a bit too busy to start this document, however I have been making some photographs and memories that I would like to hold onto forever. . . .so here are some of them.

As I type this, our group is currently on a flight from Hong Kong to Beijing China, where we will be for the next week.

Last night we had dinner at an open-air resturant. We walked next door to select the live seafood. They carried over our selections to the resturant which prepared our meals. During the dinner we talked about how life has it's high points and it low points. . . .and this night was one of the highs.
Here are some photos from the evening.

July 31, 2009, Friday
On Friday evening our group rented a boat and toured the Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong. The weather was really pleasent for dinner, drinks and dancing on the boat. The theme for the evening seemed to be
"I'm on a boat," . . . .a part of popular culture that I wasn't in tune with until this evening.

July 29, 2009, Wednesday
David, Brandon, Turner and I spent a few hours at The Shatin Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery. While going there, I didn't really think there were going to be 10,000 Buddhas. However once getting there, I would be surprised if there were not 10,000 Buddhas. The view of Hong Kong from the Monastery was great. The contrast in the view between the old and the new was strong. I couldn't have asked for better people to travel with, or better group leaders on this trip.

Project overview

All year David Matthews, Vince Wojtas and I have been planning a Design in Asia study aboard program. We are taking 22 students from the Ohio University School of Visual Communication and Interior Architecture Program to study design in Hong Kong, Beijing and a number of cities in Japan.

2007 - Traveled to Asia with 22 OU students
2008 - Students from China visited us in The USA.
2009- We are currently planning this trip

You can also read the blog that our students wrote as we traveled in the summer of 2007.
Design in Asia Blog.

Links to photos, video and projects

Photos / Our friends in Beijing
Photos / Things we saw in Beijing

Related Links

Design in Asia Blog

OU Study Abroad
College of Health and Human Services
School of Visual Communication