Support for the cause

If you are going to purchase giant metal drums. March through Hong Kong, shout and scream for some type of cause. THAT IS FINE!!!

If you decided to start this protest at 8.30AM on a Sunday morning. That is not going to help you gather support for your cause, it's going to p%#s people off.

Unless, of course, you are protesting about something involving sleep deprivation. Then your protest is not only well timed, it makes me understand your frustration perfectly.

bx

Smokers

The man who lives across the hall from me is thankfully not as bad as the 'Shouting Couple' of last year.

He is however a smoker. Not only is he a smoker, he also owns a parrot. Smoking and owning a parrot is not a problem or crime, except I can sometimes smell the smoke, and hear the parrot.

My solution to the problem was pretty simple. My neighbour and the parrot had to die.

Only joking

My solution to the problem was to purchase incense sticks from Lamma Island, and block the gap under my door with a towel. Things were all going fine till I tried cleaning the shelf where my cremated incense stick dust had accumilated. Somewhere in the cleaning process I flicked incense dust up off the shelf, and into my eye.

It hurt, I mean, really hurt. I washed my eye then consulted the packaging from the sticks. Surprisingly enough there was no instruction to help my predicament. I also tried this, but even Google, with all its wisdom, failed to come to my aid.

Despite this trauma, my incense system for solving the smoke problem is still in operation. Now I just need some ideas about how to kill a parrot???

bx

Very "Hong Kong"

I have been thinking about how to describe this for some time. You can walk down the street and see how someone is dressed, or see how a car has been decorated etc and say to your friends "That is so bloody Hong Kong". Problem is I have never discovered a perfect example to sum up exactly what we mean by "Hong Kong". Well ladies and gents, I have now discovered it in the picture below.

Over the top, outrageous, and over detailed. like Lilly Savage has vomited all over it and then sprinkled diamonds on top. This is what we mean when we say something is by look and design 'Hong Kong'.

(This was taken through a shop window, it is not my flat!)

bx

Orientation

Quite a large part of the emphasis of orientation is that you need to be willing to be a little bit crazy, fun and stupid with the students. So that means that there was a great deal of crazy from myself during the first few days.

For example, in the above picture myself and Rachel are trying to mime in a comedy style a rather famous book called the Karma-Sutra. (Disclaimer: There were no students in the room at time of bad Karma Sutra miming)

We also gave our new staff halls full of students to entertain (200+). The newbies were pretty nervous about this but eventually they got into the 'swing' of things and were teaching them how to Salsa Dance (using English as well of course)

In fact, they all did really very well and were quite calm. I however lost my mind, as the picture below demonstrates.



On closer inspection this picture really disturbs me, i look like a zombie.




And here is a picture taken at the exact moment I was asked this question by the leader of this pack of students.

"Which would you rather eat, a live Tiger or a live Horse"?

Talk about creative use of language!

bx

Quote of the day

The quote of the day goes to a newbie who asked me on the way back from Lamma Island.

"Ben, so to get from one side of Lamma Island to the other, do you need your passport?"

I think this was prompted by talk of the "Western Side" and the "Chinese Side" of the island. Or at least that's what i'm hoping!!!

bx

Typhoon Remains

Just back from Lama Island and now resting in my little flat. It was an awesome day, i was expecting about 10 people to be going but I would roughly say it ended up being more like 40!

Everyone loved the island, what was a new edition was a ship that has been washed ashore on one of the beaches during the typhoon. Despite the 'police do not cross' signs we had to go take a look. Rebels that we are. :)

bx

What the Shek?

My boss gave us Friday off so the weekend so far has seen a Friday trip to Sheko Beach. Below are a couple of pics

I have no idea what that pink thing is on the left...

Friday night saw some drunken fun and saturday was the recovery. Today is Sunday and I am taking some of the newbies to Lamma Island for beach fun and bookworm Cafe food. Yummmmmmmm

bx