I left Taiwan Friday afternoon and flew to Hong Kong. Peggy, a long-term faithful volunteer with the Catholic deaf group, took me to the small apartment of Judy Wu, the former volunteer I had just left in Taiwan.
Problem 1: I have a new iPhone that only uses eSIM. It is not possible to inset a SIM card into the phone. I had signed up for an eSIM account but when I tried to activate it in Hong Kong, I got a message that my phone cannot use eSIM which is not true. We went to a phone shop and the tech person said that the Hong Kong government prevents eSIM from being used in Hong Kong for some reason.
Problem 2: Needing Internet connection while here, I opted to install a physical SIM card in my old phone. But it wouldn’t work even though the phone shop installed it! I just now–24 hours later–got it to turn on!
Problem 3:We have scheduled a Catholic deaf gathering for tomorrow (Sunday) so I can say goodbye but now a typhoon is approaching. Signal #3 has already been raised and it is expected to hit #8 in a few hours. All transportation, everything, closes and stops at that point. Now we need to wait and see if the typhoon moves quickly through Hong Kong or goes slowly. If the latter, we will postpone the gathering until Monday night.
More to come about the typhoon!