I lived in Shaw Hostel II Room#204, located in Shaw College right behind ShawHostel I.


SHAW HOSTEL II
This is a view from Mitsuyo's room in Hostel I.
My room is located on the second floor.

ENTRANCE
The entrance is usually open but when coming home late at night, it can be opened with a numeric password which changes time to time.

LOBBY
Students often come to the lobby whether to watch television, read the daily newspapers, or just chat with friends.  Also in the lobby is the watchman who will give awful stares at night.

KITCHEN
Quite a lot of the students use the kitchen tocook although there are just two simple burners. I have even seen people steam fish over here. On the refridgerator for this floor is a sign roughly translated as "no stealing food." It is sad to say, but there are a number of thefts that occur. My cake...

MEN'S BATHROOM
This is the little boy's room. Pity the soul who lives right across from this room constantly listening to the sounds of the flushing toilet. All the toilets are Western-style, and not of the squat type. The showers are quite clean, but can be annoying when the drains are clogged.

2nd FLOOR HALLWAY
The hallways in general are quite dark  at night.  However
during the day, a lot of light comes in from the windows at the end of  the hallway.  The water  from the water fountain tastes kind of gross. The board on the right is used for announcements.

DOOR
This is my room.  Raymond and I  stuck our name tags onto the door.  The red sheets of paper are  wishes of good fortune written  during Lunar New Year.  My  calligraphy is quite terrible, is it not?  The ones that do looks good were written by Kiyoko.

OUTSIDE THE ROOM
This is a view of looking out to the hallway frominside my room. I havea clothesline to dry my bath towel, and laundry when I don't feel like using the dryer.  My trusty umbrella is hanging on theside of my closet.  At night, I am surprised by the number of people who sleep with the door open.

BED
The bed is one thin hard mattress, but I love it like that although many exchange students complain about resulting backpains.  I store my suitcase, and my shoes (New Balance 451 & Jason Kidd Nike basketball shoes & Nike boots). There is also a basketball under the bed.
CLOSET
My closet looks quite messy, but it isn't really so. I keep all my clothes in here - including my dirty ones. But themoth balls makes it so that the closet doesn't smell. I didn't really buy that many clothes in Hong Kong although I should have bought more because clothes here fit better than the ones in America - not to mention more stylish.

CEILING FAN
This is a view of the top part of my room.  This being Hostel II, has no air condition.  What we have instead is a simple rotating fan.  Often it is not enough.  The lantern hung up is from the mid-autumn moon festival.  In the background placed by the window are film containers, all empty.  As can be seen, I have taken many photos in Hong Kong!  White containers are Fuji and black containers are in general Kodak.

DESK
This is where I study, that is when I actuallydo study.  On the board are various souvenirs, photos, postcards, calendar, phone number list, King of Fighters keychains, etc... The lamp and containersare a courtesy of former OISP exchange students.  The green book is myChinese textbook. To the right are two alarm clocks that I use to wakeup. One isn't enough...
SHELF
On the bottom shelf are all my 60 photo albums (with negatives sticking out), CDs, and Lonely Planet guides of Chinaand Japan. The middle shelf has manga, textbooks, and a Kenshiro action figure.The top shelf is my kitchen cabinet with pots & pans. Yoshi and Makiko left me plenty of food! On top of the shelf are toilet paper, flashlight and some junk


SHAW HOSTEL III
The 3rd hostel in Shaw College is under construction. 
It will be important to finish this soon because Hostel II
will be closed so that additional floors can be added