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Friday, July 23, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Macau
Nice. Not thrilling but nice.
Macau was pretty much a waste of time. It's upscale shopping mall meets atlantic city with gross humid weather. Glad I found out now. Won't be returning here anytime soon.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
A friendly reminder
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
CTY Week 2 begins
And so began the second week of CTY. I found myself starting out in a 2 hour long RA meeting. I thought back to the days of Physics with Amy Bug, and recalled an exam I had to make up. I had gone to Amy and asked her if I could reschedule. I have two exams that morning I explained, and I want to perform the best on both of them. She looked at me, and said the best thing any teacher could ever say: "Two exams is Two too many." Then she agreed to come in during the weekend and give me the exam whenever was good for me. Two hours of RA meeting felt like a little much.
Afterwards, I was drained, I needed to get some fresh air, and off I went with Morgan and Brianna. We explored a bit of Hong Kong (I got a few pictures of signs, but nothing like I saw people posting during the Olympics when they were in Beijing. I planned to go out again today, but it seems unlikely. After staying up until 3 this morning chatting with friends, I stumbled through my early morning routine. I should get an award for acting though, I was convincing enough with energy (I'm in the red on this one, I owe my body some sleep) level that my kids didn't seem to notice that I was exhausted. Maybe a morning nap before venturing out into Hong Kong.
Still looking for a place to have a suit made. I could really use some help from someone who knows fabrics and could recognize quality stitching.
Afterwards, I was drained, I needed to get some fresh air, and off I went with Morgan and Brianna. We explored a bit of Hong Kong (I got a few pictures of signs, but nothing like I saw people posting during the Olympics when they were in Beijing. I planned to go out again today, but it seems unlikely. After staying up until 3 this morning chatting with friends, I stumbled through my early morning routine. I should get an award for acting though, I was convincing enough with energy (I'm in the red on this one, I owe my body some sleep) level that my kids didn't seem to notice that I was exhausted. Maybe a morning nap before venturing out into Hong Kong.
Still looking for a place to have a suit made. I could really use some help from someone who knows fabrics and could recognize quality stitching.
University bookstore at HKUST
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Day out
Spent day exploring with Brianna and Morgan. Nice lunch in TST (Tsim Sha Tsui) at a vegetarian restaurant.
Was walking back through subway to change trains and saw a great sign, no time to get a photo though. It said:
Beware of pickpockets!
And illegal photo taking
Protect your belongings.
Illegal photo taking?!?
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
CTY Hong Kong - Week 1
Wow - week 1 of CTY Hong Kong is over, and I am exhausted. It's not the kids or the work, no... it's the lack of vegetables. This meat and dairy intensive diet has me barely able to function. Hopefully things change soon. My co staff are great, really love working with them. We get along very well, and have become a little family of sorts, bonding over our early nights and finding humor in what we can in every situation. Everyone has a nice laugh, and we hear it often. I like this. We certainly come from many places and different backgrounds, which makes everything more interesting.
One thing I haven't been doing is exploring Hong Kong itself. I plan to get out for afternoons a bit more this coming week. So far I went out once to explore, and that's about it. I also went to shabbat services at the Chabad house which was fantastic. I met lots of Israeli's (of course, we had some mutual acquaintances) and enjoyed a fabulous meal. Service was very traditional, not at all like my experience in Munich where I barely recognized much of what went on.
Today, we ran a world fair. I was placed at a station for France, and for french impressionism (water coloring) we put mustaches on the kids. I spent all of the early afternoon in the sun (yes I need a shower). But, taking it in full stride, I shaved to highlight my actual mustache.
Afterwards, we watched high school musical and the kids sang along, which was comical. At one point, I got up to go find a washroom. As I walked out, I put up my arms and shrugged my shoulders, unaware that anyone but the other RA I had just said something to was looking in my direction. The entire theater broke into applause, and unbeknown to me an official break was called. As I was washing my hands, the bathrooms were stormed.
Other funny things this week were mostly small stuff, pulling aside one of my kids in the elevator so that a woman could exit first, only to discover the kid who I had yanked aside was in fact a student of the university and not mine.
One thing I haven't been doing is exploring Hong Kong itself. I plan to get out for afternoons a bit more this coming week. So far I went out once to explore, and that's about it. I also went to shabbat services at the Chabad house which was fantastic. I met lots of Israeli's (of course, we had some mutual acquaintances) and enjoyed a fabulous meal. Service was very traditional, not at all like my experience in Munich where I barely recognized much of what went on.
Today, we ran a world fair. I was placed at a station for France, and for french impressionism (water coloring) we put mustaches on the kids. I spent all of the early afternoon in the sun (yes I need a shower). But, taking it in full stride, I shaved to highlight my actual mustache.
Afterwards, we watched high school musical and the kids sang along, which was comical. At one point, I got up to go find a washroom. As I walked out, I put up my arms and shrugged my shoulders, unaware that anyone but the other RA I had just said something to was looking in my direction. The entire theater broke into applause, and unbeknown to me an official break was called. As I was washing my hands, the bathrooms were stormed.
Other funny things this week were mostly small stuff, pulling aside one of my kids in the elevator so that a woman could exit first, only to discover the kid who I had yanked aside was in fact a student of the university and not mine.
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