Matt has been enjoying seeing another side of the business by observing some of the engineers at work. He’s been able to go onto the planes alongside the engineers to look at the problems they encounter. He even got a picture taken of him inside an engine! I will let him update you in the next blog post.
On Monday I was able to volunteer at Po Kok Primary School in Happy Valley. It’s a school where 90% of the children are from an ethnic minority background, the biggest in the city. I volunteered at an after school homework club which helps the children “who need the most help completing their homework” and also from deprived backgrounds. It was really interesting. The child I was working with, Oliver, had English homework and maths homework. The English consisted of filling in the blanks: I am....hungry, thirsty etc. He seemed good at this and his English was very good too. I think the school teaches through the English language. His maths however was a lot harder than I would have expected. The social worker explained that the children were poor at maths but I wonder whether the work was too hard for his age range. In the end we got there, working with mini pizzas as counting tools.
On Wednesdays all museums are free to visit so I took the opportunity to visit the Museum of History. It was very interesting and had lots of installations and models of Chinese buildings, people and historical artefacts. The Cochrane family would have loved it, very flambards-esque.
We treated ourselves to a roast chicken and roast potatoes this week from the Selfridges type deli in Times Square! Yum yum yum! This compensated for a rather grim duck and rice dish from the supermarket.
Today we are off to Bangkok, woohoo! Although we are a bit apprehensive about the severe flooding that has been reported. If we get internet in the hotel we will put up a post to let you know.
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