Day 3 Pictures

Here are the pictures from Day 3 before we left for our Leadership Camp...



Our first of three school visits



Jacob Presenting to the HK Class



Logan Presenting to the HK Group



Looks like Maggie made a little friend, they call this little girl "koala"...unsure why :)



Cameron Playing Games



Sarah mastering some Bamboo Drawing in Art Class



Scott recieves a bamboo painting as a gift (he tried but was unable to draw one correctly himself so he had to take a little kids..)



Cameron showing off his new spear twirling techniques



Picture of our visit to a private Taiost Temple

Below are pictures of preperating for the upcoming Taoist Holiday where the Taoist honor their ancestors by burning fake money, houses, clothes, cars, etc...because they believe if these are burned for them then their ancestors will recieve them in the afterlife (and no worries they even had paper iphones for sale...)




Temporary shrines to specific ancestors



Paper money to be sold and burnt..



Paper house about to be set on fire...

Day 3

BUSY BUSY DAY!! Today we visited three different schools, recieved many different gifts, and learned ALOT of new things. After the school visits we were able to visit a private Taoist Temple, were a very big holiday is about to happen so all of the Tao People are setting up shrines for their ancestors which have passed away, as part of tradition they also purchase "fake" money, make paper doll houses, buy paper clothes, etc..that they burn to "provide" for their ancestors in the afterlife....so now that you had your history Lesson For the day here are some pics....no we are headed to the "leadership" camp, I will post again on here Saturday Morning your time with pictures of our trip to the camp and our time at Ocean Park....a theme park we will be going to tommorrow after the camp! Take Care!



Well..you'll have to wait for the pictures until tomorrow, they are rushing me out of here..yet again!

Day 2 Evening

This evening we had a welcoming ceremony where we were showered with many gifts from CSBS Mrs Aw Boon Haw Secondary School. There were also two special guests one from the US Counsel to HK and another the Assistant Secretary of the Education Department in Hong Kong. After the ceremony we headed down to Ladies Market for some shopping, ..luckly no one got a video of our group singing My Old Kentucky Home..lets just say we wont be getting on American Idol anytime soon!

Day 2 Calligraphy Lesson

Day 2

Maggie
Cameron
Logan
Sarah
Jacob

Day 2 Morning

We got to school a bit later than usual (I had to do an rank 1 class via the internet), because we were a little off schedule Scott and I took at Taxi from our hotel to the school which cost about 85 HK Dollars (no worries each US Dollar translates into around 8 HK Dollars). Today we will have a pizza lunch in the library and then we will have our welcoming ceremony. This after noon we will be headed down to ladies market with the group to do a little shopping...this place is like a outdoor flea market on steriods, and it should be a great experience for the kids. If anything..they should at least come away from it with a better apprication of bargining...and alot of nice gifts!

Here is a picture of the kids playing on a snack break, the views around here are crazy! The mountian in the background has no name..the principal here Stephen calls it "a hill"




Here is a picture of Scott leaving the hotel room and headed out to do some international diplomacy...

Day 1

Busy Day!

We started the day with a little gardening class which was followed by a McD's Lunch (brought to us at the school). At the end of the school day we boarded a charter bus and took a stroll down the Avenue of the Stars (pic above is from there, the students and the master...Bruce Lee). The weather is a bit overcast with some scattered rain, temp stayed in the 60's for most of the day. After walking down the Avenue of the Stars we had dinner at The Spagetti House which was followed by the Symphony of Lights in the Harbour.

Tommorrow we will be having the big welcoming ceremony...where we will sing, as a group, My Old Kentucky Home (lets just say this should be interesting since we dont have a very musically talented group..minus Sarah. After the Ceremony we will go to the Ladies Market for some big time shopping..I'll try to make sure the students get some good gifts while not spending all of their money! Take Care!