Christmas school fun and island life
This morning I awoke at 6 AM. By 7.30 I was in a school, come 8.30 I was starting my first of nine 40 minute Christmas sessions. This involved introducing lots of new Christmas language to their vocab knowledge. (The fact that you actually kissed people under mistletoe horrified some of them when I told them.)
Here are some pictures from the day.
Here I am in my Santa garb having the customary V sign signalled wherever possible.
One of my partners in crime Ravneesh reading to the little monsters whilst I hand out Christmas bingo cards.
Dont worry I was not doing a Christmas full Monty, no students were present to witness my Christmas strip (It was really hot in the suit)
It was a really fun day but by the end of it my voice had gone and my feet felt like they were going to drop off, the kids were brilliant though, had fun and learnt quite a bit as well (such as Father Christmas is NOT called 'The Christmas Man'.) All in all the four of us doing the event came into contact with close to 600 students and they all at some stage were speaking English. Not bad going.
This is not a linear blog i'm afraid, the next few pictures I am posting are of my trip to Lamma island on Sunday. The temperature has dropped in the last week and its almost jumper wearing climate. But as you can see from the pictures the cold weather does not go hand in hand with rain and clouds, we still have sunshine and blue skies here!
Lamma island is starting to appeal to me as a potential place to live in the future. It's very small and everything that Hong Kong is not. It is a friendly, fresh and stunning place that strictly forbids cars, but that's fine because you can walk across it in about 2 hours. I went there with a friend and we walked from the 'seafood' area (which is the port in the picture above) right round to the next main village which is slightly more westernized. It has the most incredible atmosphere and some great beaches as well, the side that we ended our little trek had a kind of hippy commune type feel to it. It is without a doubt the place where lots of people choose to live to raise their children, as there are families everywhere... you can spot the locals because its such a small little place that everyone knows everyone else!
What slightly spoils the place is that there is also a sodding big powerstation on the island too, but you can't have everything i guess.
And I have realized that we have never shown you some typical Hong Kong jungle... So here you go!!
Right i'm off to bed now, not long till Christmas!!!!!
Bx
Here are some pictures from the day.
Here I am in my Santa garb having the customary V sign signalled wherever possible.
One of my partners in crime Ravneesh reading to the little monsters whilst I hand out Christmas bingo cards.
Dont worry I was not doing a Christmas full Monty, no students were present to witness my Christmas strip (It was really hot in the suit)
It was a really fun day but by the end of it my voice had gone and my feet felt like they were going to drop off, the kids were brilliant though, had fun and learnt quite a bit as well (such as Father Christmas is NOT called 'The Christmas Man'.) All in all the four of us doing the event came into contact with close to 600 students and they all at some stage were speaking English. Not bad going.
This is not a linear blog i'm afraid, the next few pictures I am posting are of my trip to Lamma island on Sunday. The temperature has dropped in the last week and its almost jumper wearing climate. But as you can see from the pictures the cold weather does not go hand in hand with rain and clouds, we still have sunshine and blue skies here!
Lamma island is starting to appeal to me as a potential place to live in the future. It's very small and everything that Hong Kong is not. It is a friendly, fresh and stunning place that strictly forbids cars, but that's fine because you can walk across it in about 2 hours. I went there with a friend and we walked from the 'seafood' area (which is the port in the picture above) right round to the next main village which is slightly more westernized. It has the most incredible atmosphere and some great beaches as well, the side that we ended our little trek had a kind of hippy commune type feel to it. It is without a doubt the place where lots of people choose to live to raise their children, as there are families everywhere... you can spot the locals because its such a small little place that everyone knows everyone else!
What slightly spoils the place is that there is also a sodding big powerstation on the island too, but you can't have everything i guess.
And I have realized that we have never shown you some typical Hong Kong jungle... So here you go!!
Right i'm off to bed now, not long till Christmas!!!!!
Bx
posted by robynandben at 7:14 PM
4 Comments:
2 days. 2 days. 2 days. Not at all ready in any way..
So did you go " Ho Ho Ho," to the little girls and tell them that it was an old British custom to sit on Father Christmas's lap and whisper in his ear what they wanted for Christmas? The Island looks fab, book us in for that as well, please.Do you think we should extend our stay to a month ?
an entire month? awful thing is i don't know if you are being serious!
Ah! That's more like school as I know it: kids looking around, talking whilst the teacher's talking, coats and scarves on regardless of weather and rules, even a comic santa hat AND a surgical mask! And is that a fight breaking out at the back? They must be getting comfortable with you. Remember the "old" teachers' saying "Never smile til xmas!"
Love
Dave/dad xx
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