Where a child’s book bag is bigger than the child herself
It was windy yesterday in Hong Kong. Even though the forecast said high 15, by afternoon it was overcast and the wind gusts brought on a biting cold. At the Chi On Primary School in Kwai Fong (north-western Kowloon) we certainly felt it. Hong Kong public schools all kind of look the same. There’s a...
2011, here I come
It was a busy and emotional year-end, with the death in the family cutting our Taiwan trip short. We traveled to Zhejiang post-funeral and spent a few days with family. Then, it was back to Hong Kong. Funny. One morning we were in a rural part of Zheijiang, where roosters crow and dart across roads...
Reading Pals
Tuesdays are when I take a bus to Kowloon City to read English books to 1st graders. I’m part of a group of volunteers who help out with the Hong Kong Council of Early Childhood Education. I didn’t think any of the kids would have developed a bond with me just yet, since I just...
Buried in Chinese characters…
I’m sorry for my absence. I made it a priority to blog when I first arrived in Hong Kong. But things started to get busy, as I signed up for two volunteer projects – one teaching English phonics to 10-year-old kids and the other visiting a shelter for battered foreign domestic helpers – and I’ve...
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