Today was Chinese New Year celebration time.
Here's what went down
- Chinese dress
- Chinese food (fried rice, noodles, prawn crackers, spring rolls, shrimp toast)
- Chinese activities (painting, colouring, dancing, singing)
- & most excitingly a LION DANCE.
If you have never seen one, it's a definite must-do. But for me, the experience was even better as I sat amongst the students and shared in their screams of slight terror, hysterical giggles, surprised and delighted expressions and pure fascination. I think being around small people makes you appreciate the small things, moments that you wouldn't even consider to be remotely interesting today, but really, have just forgotten how much you enjoyed them as a child. Their innocence has a way of grounding you without you ever really realising it, but not all the time, sometimes they drive you insane.
Part of my role over here is to escort students to the Isle of Wight by hovercraft, or, if the weather is typically English I have to take the ferry. Tonight I was forced to take the sea cat (ferry). Me and the sea cat. Not friends. It was so rough that you could see the water almost splashing over the side, there was a lot of vomit, some small children crying, a couple of old people clenching their teeth and the girls stressing about getting home alive. So dramatic. But I was totally cool..... Because I'm Australian and we wrestle crocodiles and have punch ups with kangaroos all the time.
This weekend is open to suggestion, with nothing planned I am just going to see where the days take me (dependent upon the weather) I've been told not to go anywhere near the water front, apparently there have been a number of cases where a few chaps have thought it would be a good idea to go for a stroll in the nice blustery weather and have been swept away out to sea. No thanks, I'll pass.
Mystery awaits!
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