A day off with a difference, on St Paddy's Day

Monday night, teachers finalising the week's administrative input under the watchful eye of Lindeman , a result of the Director of Studies getting creative with my camera and Lindsay's wine. The end of a busy week usually has an excitement of two days off and a few sleep ins but this one was complicated by a school outing on Tuesday. We were all off to Evergreen Resort as thanks for our work on the WinterCamp. Scan through and see what this afternoon encompassed.

Teacher's carrot?

Pensive on our day out or avoiding looking at the camera?

SZ Kids 3 and 4 staff at Evergreen Resort. Who is the only one without black/dark hair!

A recycled fanta can water buffalo

Centre Manager Sonia and Ada (yellow) sliding down the deck of the pirate ship

The rainforest is so wet they provide umbrellas!

The sun was shining hence a rainbow in the mist


Rainforest on the edge of development

look what you can do with a 10mm lens!

The adventure park has ropes, swings, rockclimbing, rope challenges to treat most nervous types.

What you don't get to see is the full impact of the rainforest gully, the butterfly farm, the fishing club, the aquarium and enormous fish, flowers, the melon garden, the pottery house and the resort.

We played impromptu basketball, tug of war, played on stilts, hopscotch, and other activities to amuse. I'll be curious to see if there are any sore muscles on Thursday as it was all quite strenuous at times (a competitive bunch).

After all this fun, we met our bus and went to dinner which was Sichuan (swimming in chilli).

A day off with a difference but we did manage to avoid the KTV Karaoke session as it was St Paddy's day and EF teachers were gathering at Sherkou McCauleys so we wandered down there until bed called. The League of Nations of EF kids teachers are a friendly bunch, having commandeered the pool table and most of the top floor it was a celebration again.

I took it easy as I have yet another cough, some form of URTI without a sore throat but with a loss of voice for a while making teaching a challenge where creativity takes over from normal lesson plan. I actually feel OK just sound dreadful when the cough reflex kicks in! A whole week (until St Paddy's day )without alcohol certainly saves money but I am sure you can drown from the inside on drinking so much water.

Hopefully a day in the outdoors and a few beers and doing naught today must be giving the medications a chance to work. Easy day tomorrow too.

Yippee - I have CNN and BBC World TV Channels, giving a great respite from those really annoying commercials on the two HK channels.

Cheers and belated Paddy's greetings to you!