Meeting the Students and Their Host Families

Breakfast is included everyday throughout our stay and this is where we breakfasted: the Metro.
Today is Sunday and we will meet the students and thier host families for lunch.

My breakfast...loved the fine noodles! the rest of the days fried rice was served instead

Miss Angie with her backpack..she carries it wherever she goes
The lobby is friendly with lots of bars, cosy nooks and corners for waiting and for a drink

These standing computers log off after a stipulated time, that's why stand...you cannot take too long

But these three computers are for you to use as long as you like, but usually lots of people will be waiting for you to give up the computer to them

Miss Angie at the ground floor level waiting for the students. We are meeting them for lunch, but she looks as if she is dressed for a hiking or camping trip.

The Metro eatery where we have our breakfast every morning

The longest escalator I have ever seen: it spans 4 floors! Because the lobby and our breakfast area is on the 4th floor.

The escalator leads us to the concierge and take off area

Miss Angie at the gift shop buying a chinese bowl. Later we bought these bowls at Temple Street

View of street from the window of the hotel

The students are here already, with their hosts, only Anthony and his fosters are not here

We decided to have buffet lunch in the hotel itself at Metro, where we just had breakfast

Chong Yen Fang, my heartthrob

My food...raw salmon and oysters and starting to invite h- pylori

View of the buffet selection

After lunch they left for the Peak! If only we knew! We would have joined them!

Audrey, her daughter Frieda and Rueann

I looked up and took a up shot veiw of Eaton

Angie found a local sim card pack

And asked me to buy

Went back to hotel to get ready to go to The Peak, as advised by Su Su. This is a cool ice vending maching outside our hotel room! Next post: our trip to the PEAK!!

Landing in Hong Kong

Now that I am back home with my own laptop and Kinrara's efficient broadband, I can post easily. Those two earlier posts were hastily done from the hotel with lots of typo errors because a lot of people were waiting to use the computers and they looked as if they have very important deals and things to send off from the computer! so I always give up mine to them!
So now I am re doing my Hong Kong blog starting from the day I landed! Bear with me.

Packing! Did spring cleaning and brought all my stash to give away as presents.

Ready to go to LCCT
from KL

to the streets of HK!

massive condos as far as the eye can see (view from the car)

Neon lights! I have forgotten the Neon lights! In this day and age of diminishing fossil fuels
neon till feature in HK streets (from the car, Mrs Tam's driver fetched us)

We walked the streets of Hong Kong looking for dinner

and this reminds me of my father's chinese medical hall, but more well stocked

Angie says the ikan bilis smell heavenly

If you look closely the magazines near the front has scantily clad girls in suggestive poses

Then we found this noodle shop that looked crowded, attesting to
the popularity of the shop

Angie chose this because it looked busy!

She chose wantan soup (the wantan had real prawns inside! no mince meat or pork fat) but the noodle was not enough for her

saliva chicken (hou siu kai)

my noodle is vermicelli in spicy sour soup, I liked the soup but not the noodle so I gave it to Angie and ordered plain wantan soup with 3 wantan.

the bill (one more $13 for my wantan) and the name of the shop

my side of the bed ..quite cramped ....below, Angie's space leaving a path for the bathroom

Day 2 Observing Classes.

Today we get to sit in 3 classes. We are given this room to do our work and rest in.

It is secluded and privare and we have all the resources availed to us plus a laptop.

This is Denise Richardson's phonetic class.

Her class rehearsing the christmas play Scrooge.

Exchange student from Holland is the lead role in Scrooge.

At 3.30 going home time we met Chong Yen Fang. Such a coincidence, in a sea of faces, we can see Chong.

This is how the students go back. Most of them take public transport like MRT.

Part One, Campus Tour of MCKLN (Methodist College Kowloon(Part One)

Here comes Rueann and Frieda who will bring us from the hotel to the school because we do not know how to get to the school yet.


The students are streaming in. They touch their card on the touch screen.
Then they enter the school via the stairs, we can use the lift.

Daisy the Head of English Department is stylish, tall and looks like Hong Kong actress!

We were welcomed by the principal Emily Wong, I forgot to take her picture. This is Daisy Liu head of English department and we will be under her care. Today she will take us on a campus tour.

Priscilla is a Teacher's Assistant, she is learning to be a teacher and performs a lot of tasks for the teachers.

this mural was done to commerate Founder's Day

Daisy is bringing us to the abandoned old block which once used to be the teacher training college

We went to Denise Richardson's Drama Class. She is a NET (Native English Teacher) and she teaches the STELLAR programme : her forte is Teaching English through Drama

The school is situated on a hill next to busy and bustling Yau Ma Tai....read newspaper article below...

Actually Hong Kong is very safe, you do not have to be on the lookout for snatch thieves all the time and HK people are generally law-abiding citizens, petty crimes are commited by immigrants like the "South Asians".

Please see Part 2.....