Preparation includes watching Travel Channel, downloading pdf's on city guides, octopus cards, inboxing friends on student worthy sights to see and reading senseless amounts of the Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine 21E to make sure that my in-holiday-mode mind is not completely empty for the doctor who is going to be taking us on rounds. My name is Alexander Roux and I will be taken on a journy to Hong Kong to complete my 4 weeks' medical end of 3rd year elective at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I go to University of Pretoria, and love my country very much. This blog will be a sanctuary to me for the 5 weeks that I am abroad, where I will share my experiences (whether medical, social or most probably ramblings about the abstract manner in which I see things). It is slowly but surely dawning upon me that I could be in Hong Kong in two weeks' time. Unfortunately a large leap in this realisation will only take place once our Hong Kong Stud...