americans...

strange... just chatting w/the sallie mae people (that's the gov't loan agency in the US specifically for school loans!) to make payments on my school loan... and i'm trying to explain that we're FRIDAY MORNING here, but they at Thursday evening over there. the dude was really confused... then in verifying my billing address, i told him my addy, 28G nam fung ct, blah blah blah.. 'hong kong'. then he says, 'that's hong kong, JAPAN, right?'.. HUH??????