Dealing with the Hong Kong Protest Crisis as an International Student
(Also published on Medium ) Yesterday, on less than a day's notice, I had to bid farewell to some of my closest friends, one of whom I might never see again. Certainly, none of us expected how our life would unfold when myself and countless other international students accepted the offer to move to Hong Kong to start University. Without getting too political, I wanted to share my experiences as an international undergraduate student during the past months. Arrival in Asia's financial metropolis Background The first indication that studying in Hong Kong might be a more unique experience than I thought, came when much of Hong Kong peacefully went to the streets in June 2019 to protest against a proposed extradition bill. It was feared that the law, which would allow the government to extradite people to Mainland China, would limit certain freedoms in the semi-autonomous special administrative region, that is Hong Kong. And while the bill has since been for