Hello everyone!
As usual- it’s been a while. I wanted to share some photos of my recent “Open Day” at school. It a really big deal for all schools in Hong Kong to have Open Day, as it’s like an open house day when parents and students come to see the school. This applies to both current parents and students and, perhaps more importantly, prospective families. In Hong Kong, students really shop around for the best school. And on top of the already high expectations, SMPS what celebrating it’s 20th anniversary! Everyone decided to combined the two reasons to party and have one giant 2 day event!
I organized 7 booths with English games for students. The EAT (or English Abassador Team) assisted. This group is made up of students who already love English and tend to like sharing that joy with others. Still, it requires a lot of training! Since I can’t be in 7 places at once, we had team leaders for each station. Each team leader had two sets of helpers as the event was two days and 4-5 hours each day! That was just too much to ask of most kids. After 3- 90 minute trainings, and loads of outside prep work on my part, the day finally arrived!
Early in the morning, teachers and students joined forces to blow up hundreds of balloons to decorate the outside hall. 3 hours later, the place looked ready for a party. We broke for lunch and soon after eating, most of my helpers looked pretty pooped and hadn’t even started their session yet! The first group covered 2 more hours of actual “Open Day” activities and left looking like they needed to go straight to bed! The next group picked up the baton and forged full speed ahead. Good thing, because Miss Emily was pretty tired herself, and needed their energy to get her through!
Thankfully, I was taken out for dinner and drinks! J But depressed thinking of my 6am Saturday alarm! I had to do it all again the next morning! Still, everything went beautifully.
Not long after this, Brett and I had quite a scare. During that same weekend, I acquired a bug bite which totally took me down! It looked weird from the start, but it took two full days for me to get a fever, and a bad one at that. Brett took me to the doc, who measured me at 103 degrees F! WOW! I went right on antibiotics and I'm doing okay now- but gosh that was a scary thing. Someday you'll have to ask Brett about my "most graceful public puking" award! :) 
