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Saturday, November 16, 2013

A Few Great Faces

Hello My Dear Most Excellent Ones,
I teach about 100 kids a day.  At times they are great, at times they are not so great, but the truth is they are all a miracle. We had a school picnic a few weeks ago so it was a perfect opportunity to take a few pictures.  Here are a few of the faces I see every day.    Thank you Lord for each one.  Have a great week.  

Love adios and ping on!

Dirk  























Saturday, November 9, 2013

Color Day


Hello Dear Most Excellent Ones,
As most of you know I work at Christian Alliance International School (CAIS) located in charming Kowloon.  It's the city across Victoria harbour from Hong Kong.  FYI Kowloon is on a peninsula, whilst Hong Kong is on an island, called Hong Kong.  I digress.  Anyway CAIS has two campuses, the main one located in Kowloon City houses the grade 4-12's while the Lai Yiu campuses located up the hill from the Lai King MTR station, near the Hong Kong docks, has the kindergarteners, hereafter known as preparatory or preps and the grades 1-3.  This campus is called the fun campus, namely because there are several "fun," teachers who have actually formed a fun committee.  This fun committee organized a colour day last Friday.  The preps wore yellow, the grade ones red, the grade two green, and the grade three blue.  Teachers of those grades joined in by wearing their grade's colour.  Meanwhile the office staff wore pink, the teacher assistants wore white, and the speciality teachers, PE, Mandarin, Art, Music teachers wore orange.  As the pictures will attest, it made for an interesting day.  

Have a Great Week.

Love adios and ping on!

Dirk

Some key members of the Lai Yiu staff:


 Mr. Conehead.

 Mr. Groovy

 Staff meeting.

 Mr. Frizzle.

 Mr. Red Leprechaun


 Morning gathering.

 Our leader and principal.  Mr Cool.

 Preps having a great time.
 Our principal with his speciality staff.  We're special alright.

 Kids learned alot from these three guys that day. Ha ha.

 Red team.

 Preps!

Grade threes.

 EAs Teacher assistants

 Grade 1's

Grade 2's


 It was a great day.








Saturday, November 2, 2013

Snacks from Taiwan (yum)

Hello Dear Most Excellent Ones,
As reported last week the Taiwanese have gone rubber duck crazy, but food vendors have also got into the action.  Interspersed throughout all the ducky stuff were fast food options.  After all, shopping for all that ducky paraphernalia one can build up an appetite.  Yet as the pictures will attest I think I would rather go hungry.

Have a great week everyone and God bless you.

Love adios and ping on!

Dirk




 Sushi conveyer belt.  Pay by the plate.

 Not sure what these liquids are, but the colors are interesting.

 What are those red floaty things?  Don't really want to know.

 Fried squid anyone?

 Fried chicken feet?  Anyone, anyone?

 Snail or moth larva in jelly goog. Ahh no thanks.

 Deep, very deep, fried squid on a stick.  Half of its deep fried batter I am sure.

 Fresh sugar cane juice.  Hmm

 Corn on the cob covered with some gelatine substance.  Apparently good with mustard.

 Mushrooms.  Huh?

 I am sure this is called, "boiled internal organs."  Yucccccccck!

 I think this is some kind of meat cake, garnished with some gelatine substance.  Taiwan likes their gelatine.

 See through glazed candy.  Water is available, I think, due to high sweetness of the candy.

 Fresh oysters.  Ok now we're talking.

 Oysters battered up in deep fried fat.  Not good for those with a heart condition.

 Noodles with ?????

Stewed "leftover body parts."  

Bon appetite!