This last week has been an extremely relaxing one which has been certainly a blessing. Having returned from Chinese New Year in England and having spent the first week of school feeling absolutely rubbish and being off for two days of the week (almost), it was still extremely weird to go back to school and do a full week of lessons.
This week didn't profit much activity until Saturday which was actually a blessing as I am still in recovery and want to get better as soon as possible. My chest X-ray came back clean which is incredible and wonderful but I have still got a persisting cough and cold which of course may be as a result of the poor weather we have had, only on Saturday did it start picking up.
Friday saw February's birthday party! I think these are one of the highlights of the month because as well as different food to what we normally get, this month it was sushi and spaghetti with warm Brosch soup, it is all about celebration and making it all about the kids and especially those who have birthdays in February, or whatever month it is. I was pleasantly surprised by the wonderfully adorable class that is K1Cpm. With the photos of the children that are taken, are a variety of different delicacies, normally sweets and chocolate, that the children bring in to share with their classes. We had borrowed a collection of sweets from 1C and 1D for the afternoon birthdays. When I went to go and deliver the food back to them, the teachers insisted on giving some of the food to me. Win! I can't say that I was complaining about the presentation with me of food! Especially as I reckon it's the cutest class in the afternoon! Of course, I'm not supposed to have favourites but you know...when I don't actually teach them, because then that would really be unfair. But K1 is fair game!
That evening, having been given a lot of food which is always a bonus in the day, I headed over to Melody Gardens to help celebrate Willow's birthday! Of course with the amount of food, which was a good bag full of sweet foods, it was wonderful company and food, as we ordered Ebeneezers which provides extremely good curry and chips (I haven't had the latter yet but I hear it is very good) and then spent the time relaxing in each other's company and the alcohol (of course, what dd you expect?).
On Saturday, Lucy and I got to do something that I have missed out on several opportunities to do and now I finally got to do it, go to The Peak. On the island, it is a peak (funnily enough) with wonderful walks and stunning views. We went up a rather steep hill and found some beautiful gardens with an added extra little trail called the Governor's Walk which had picturesque views but had a ridiculously steep drop on one side with the cliff face on the other. We then joined another trail which we weren't sure how long it would take to walk. It turned to take a good hour or so but the views were incredible stunning and Lucy and I had a lovely time chatting and getting to know each other even better. We made it back in time to catch sunset which was absolutely stunning, one of the best sunsets I have experienced in Hong Kong and that is saying something as I have experienced many a beautiful and gorgeous sunset here.
I am glad to report that my cough and cold have been getting better!! While it hasn't completely gone away, I am now just accepting that I will have to let it get better and wait until it goes away, I feel much more on the ball and I think that the next couple of weeks will see me out of the mask and into warmer clothes, hopefully as the weather has been extremely cold lately.
Until next time,
Batkinson xx
Cantonese word of the week: pronunciation - Hi sam a; translation - the next stop is
Quote of the week: 'it is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the lgiht.' - Aristotle
Prayer points:
- I need to get more sleep as I am struggling to get early nights...
- one of my K2 classes are very curious and always ask questions but it deters from being able to complete all the things in the lesson - I want to allow them to ask questions but I also want to finish the lesson
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