[Level 7] 217:  🅰️  望夫石 – Amah Rock – 1/5

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Amah Rock, the Husband-Watching Stone.
         

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This semester, I participated in a university program to make friends with international students, where I was in charge of taking them around Hong Kong and having them learn about Hong Kong culture.
         

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One of the Americans in my group, to my surprise, wanted me to later take them to see "Amah Rock".
         

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Do you not know where it is? Well, I don't know either!
         

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After hearing that, I was really dumbfounded. I didn't know how to react and thought to myself: What is "A-mah Rock"? [A-ma is a term for mother]
         

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After Googling, I finally learned that it turns out that "A-ma Rock" was "Amah Rock".
         


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