Internet

When a webpage will load through the great firewall of China, but loads faster through a proxy, you know something is seriously messed up.

My internet connection is back

There are sweeping changes taking place at my school. We have a new president, new buildings, lots of construction, and they just changed some settings on the network. In order to connect to the internet I have to install and run a program called H3C Client. It authenticates to the network using 802.1x protocol. It's a windows only program, and it sucks. They used to have a generic login password for every computer, now they have a unique login and password for every computer.

Besides the fact I have to use windows on my brand new MacBook Pro, the internet is incredibly slow, and they are blocking almost all the ports. I cannot download torrents or anything else. It's like I'm living at my university again, except it's in a developing country.

My rhythm of updating my blog has been broken, but I will try to get back into the habit.

How I got to Hong Kong

The school had a driver take me to the Xiamen airport. Then I flew to Shenzhen where I took 3 buses to get to Hong Kong. The first bus took me to the Chinese immigration building. The second bus took me across to the Hong Kong immigration building, and the third bus took me to my destination in Hong Kong. I had a small, written guide on how to find my hotel and the Visa office.

On a side note, the internet here is severely messed up right now due to obviously reasons (read or watch news about China).