On the eve of summer programme

Time has come to iron the business clothes, observing and part time teaching is over - Monday 7th July starts Summer school.
Von messing around with the camera after a hard workout at the gym, a good time filler in the preparation weeks.
Damn those Chinese scales, they weigh same same as Australian ones, maybe the beer is heavier? Lets see what happens after a 6-7 day full teaching load, maybe the teaching energy will burn some calories??? Live the dream!


Ok, after working two full weekend days since we got most of our computer access back I am sort of ready for day 1 of week 1 of the Summer Fun program. There are 5 of us this week teaching across all age groups and I expect the prep room will be chaos on Monday morning as we all gear up to go out there and teach 3-16 year olds from age relevant syllabus and the specially designed Olympic projects. Time now to remember anything I ever knew about arts and craft for kids. I'll work out Tuesday after finishing teaching Monday - the others are really helpful but we are all working in the unknown so it's time to fly by the seat of the pants (told you that was really important "between teh lines" in my CV).

I managed to arrange for the apartment manager to have my bedding and sheets changed over and it seems to have worked, crisp sheets on the rock hard bed, should have waited till Tuesday and been able to have the luxury of a sleep in on Wednesday my day off.

After a home cooked dinner of steak and veges, with a TsingTao beer I am about ready for bed.
I'll save up my dining out stories for a separate chapter to be written later.

Rain is back, pelting the windows here as well as Wimbledon which is being shown on the Hong Kong channel so its broadcasting for us to watch the rain pour in UK in English. The Chinese player in women's comp making the semis did not cause much of a stir at the school, I might be the minority of being interested in sport? I found that Starbucks gets more than 1 daily newspaper in English so I still fit in an occasional flat white (latte) to read the papers, as I keep forgetting to read the one at school.

It is interesting thinking that you would struggle to get Aussie kids to spend 6 weeks holiday at a school Mon - Friday (Wed is sports or outings and our day off) and for some to still turn up for "normal" English classes on weekends (1.5 hrs a day). I think the little ones just like having fun .

Get ready for teacher, teacher and try teaching Chinese kids to say T shirt (sounds like teacher).

Must go to bed....bye (enjoy the read if you bothered) more everyday photos on facebook.