Christmas in Hong Kong Part 1

We knew we'd be staying at home for Christmas, but for the first time in 3 years I would not be working on Christmas Day. I was excited to be spending time with my girls.

Christmas Eve we were invited to the next village to partake in the carol singing. There was mulled wine and jollity. Richard, a neighbour and teacher at KGV, is a great pianist and I took down my flute.

Mulled wine - check. Song sheet - check!

Fabulous online toy

http://www.zefrank.com/dtoy_vs_byokal/

Found this very cool website that makes a kaleidoscope.
Give it a go...

Promotion.

I arrived at my school last August 08. Quite quickly the management realised (with some prodding) that it the maths posts had been under-rated. So both posts would be upgraded from next August 09. We have 2 heads of maths as the school is so big.

Exciting though the though of more money and fewer teaching hours was, the only problem was that I had to apply for the post all over again and interview for it. The whole process took nearly 2 months. After the interview I spent a sleepless night but heard the next morning that I was successful.
This means that I am Head of Middle School Maths.
Again...
The only difference will be that I become more autonomous and have greater authority to get things done.

Phew - now I can settle in comfort for a while.

It has been too long

It has been far too long since I last blogged. About time I got up and running on this blog again. Here we go...
I will be missing out some pics on this first batch of postings. I'll add them in as I can.

Heather speaks beautiful Chinese

Here is what it all means:

I have four in my family.

Daddy, Mummy, Big sister and me.

I like red and chocolate.

I am English.

It is immature but it has to be done!!

Some pics donated by the Peters

Going to the Gee Gees

Wednesday 3rd December
This is out of sequence but well worth catching up.
The Maths and ICT dept at KGV try to arrange something a bit different each year for the Christmas Dinner. This year it was an Evening at the Races.
A team member and good sport sorted it all out for us.
We had tables booked and all all you can eat / drink buffet. The dinner was on a terrace overlooking the race course. Betting was simple with National Lottery type cards. You could watch the race by the rail of the terrace or see it on the screens.
We ended up down over the night (by about 2 pounds). A great night that we never would have tried; we will definitely do it again.