Day 3

Temperature taking .... an important morning routine before we set off from the YMCA hostel to the school for the day programme.



We arrived at school at about 8 am. every morning. We would gather the canteen area or at the holding area (5th floor) to chat with our buddies while waiting for the lesson to start.


Classroom Experience: English Lesson

Today English lesson was a continuation of yesterday's topic. It was conducted differently. The students were being grouped according to their level of competencies. They were seated in groups of 4. For today lesson, they have to do a PowerPoint Presentation on the theme "Faith". It was something like the oral lesson that we usually did back home but theirs was in written form together with the pictures that they have taken.

Classroom Experience: Design & Technology Lesson

I was bought to the D&T room for the Design and technology lesson. Although the room has limited space and was rather crammed, it was well equipped and furnished. As usual, the students were eager to introduce themselves and help in whatever way they could. I learned geometrical and symmetrical drawing in today lesson. As I was doing this for the first, I could hardly understand what was going on. Seeing how confused and forlorn I was, my buddy painstakingly explained to me what i was supposed to do until i finally understood the concept. I have learnt a valuable lesson in this trip, how to draw a symmetrical ....egg!

Classroom Experience: Music Lesson

The students wasted no time in queueing up and walked orderly to the music room. It was totally silent inside the room. The only noise I could hear was the sound of teacher typing on the computer. A moment later, a video of a famous orchestra performing appeared on a large screen. Every one's eyes were fixed on the screen. The teacher was using IT (films, videos, cds etc) to make the lesson much more appealing to the students. The responses from the students were dynamic and spontaneous.

HK Space Museum
At the space museum, we watched a movie about dinosaurs at the Stanley Ho Space Theatre. It was a new experience for me as we have to seat on the almost horizontal reclined seats to view the video projected onto the 23-metre hemisphere screen at roof of the theatre.

From the exhibits, we could get an idea of the setbacks and triumphs that man has achieved so far in space exploration.

HK History Museum

For me, the best part of the trip so far was the visit to the HK History Museum. This place is amazing! It is filled with lot of stuff that i have never seen before in my life, for example the stone arrow, prawn shop, 'boat people', opera, etc .

Science Museum

The Science Museum has really intriguing exhibits. I learnt about energy consumption for household appliances. For example, water heater would consume 1 KW in half an hour!

I have an interesting lesson on enzymes and what are they used for. I subsequently found out that pig fat was used to make explosives, a shocking discovery for me.

Avenue of Stars

We arrived at the Avenue of Stars at around 7.30pm. While waiting for the “Symphony of Lights” to begin at 8pm we browsed through the famous Hong Kong stars hand imprints on the walkway. The atmosphere was vibrant and the place was crowded with many tourists. The weather was cooling with the wind slapping on our faces. We thoroughly enjoyed the moment.

The symphony of Lights began at 8 pm sharp and we could see the outlines of the commercial buildings in front of us being lighted up. Occasionally, laser lights at the top of the building would shoot out showing a spectacular display of different coloured lightings against the skyline. Most of us were in awe as we soaked in the almost festive atmosphere. The beautiful sight would be forever etched in my mind for many years to come.