We’ve completed out first three days of school. Our school celebrated the start of a new year by having a celebration banquet at the Regalside Hotel on Friday night. All school staff, their families, and the school board were invited. The school had arranged for two charter buses to meet teachers and their families in the parking garage of the school. I would say there were about 150 people in attendance.After a few opening remarks by the superintendent, we had a large buffet dinner of western, Chinese, Indian, and Japanese food. The sushi was great, but the girls and I took a pass on the pigs’ feet.
There was no programming planned for after dinner, so we were free to mingle. Considering the fact that we’ve only been here eight days, we still have a lot of people to meet. The staff at the school –both the local Chinese staff and the international teachers really are an amazing collection of outstanding people. Everyone of them has such an interesting back-story and to a person they are all so gracious and helpful.
The best part of the evening? Everybody had name tags on.
We stayed too late chatting, so we missed the charter bus back to the school/apartment. So at 9:40 at night we decided to figured out the HK bus system. By “we” I mean Julie, me, Ruth, and Tony. Okay, Julie and I had nothing to do with it. It was all Ruth. We just followed her like lost puppies.
(For future reference, it's light bus 67a.)
In Hong Kong, we've ridden trains, subways, taxis, and now a city bus. The girls are itching to ride one of those double-decker buses we keep seeing around town.
-Jack
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