Day 9

Today would be our last day at Lai Chack Middle School. We entered the school with a somewhat heavy feeling knowing that we would miss this place very much.

While we were having lesson in class, Miss Chen treated Mrs Tan and Mr Lau to a typical Hong Kong breakfast meal at the nearby shop: fish porridge, you tiao wrapped with chee cheong fun and fried carrot cake. It looked so delicious!

Most of us did not have the heart to listen to the class lesson. We spend most of the time chatting with our buddies.

Visit to Lady Street

This is Lady Street (near Mongkok MTR station), a popular shopping area for tourists. We took the MTR there ... only 2 stations from the school. The train system was quite similar to Singapore MRT.

The amount of stuff sold here were amazing! You could find all sort of things here. But be warned ..... most of them are fakes!

Part of the fun of shopping in lady street is knowing how to bargain.

Miss Chen (Hong Kong teacher) taught us how to bargain if you found an item that you are interested to buy.

First, you asked how much does it cost.

Then, you walked away regardless of what price the seller offered you.

Note: DO NOT COUNTER OFFER !!!

The seller will run up to you and automatically drop the price further. Now you tak note of the reduced price and continue to walk on pretending that you are still not interested.

If the seller is really keen to sell you the item, he will run after you and further lower the price even though you have, by now, walked 3-4 stalls away.

In this way you could easily get 50% discount without having to open your mouth!

We tried this trick ... and it worked. Look at how much stuff we bought. Ha ha ha !

After shopping, it was back to school for one last activity before the farewell dinner ... making eraser using plastercine.

A flower eraser!

Farewell Dinner

We started the evening event with games.








Dominic was being "punished" to sing a song with Miss Natalie Chen as his group lost the 1st round of games.








Foods were delicious. We were told that the sandwiches, fried rice and salad were prepared by our Hong Kong buddies.




Zhi Yu represented our school to go on stage to share our group reflection for the trip. She did a good job speaking in chinese.

It was gift exchange time after the sharing session.



After that, it was karaoke session.

Mr Kelvin Ma (Hong Kong teacher) kicked off by singing a cantonese song.

.... It's fun to stay at the Y. M. C. A.

Although the evening event finally ended at 0800pm many of us were reluctant to leave. Some of us cried as we bid good night to our buddies.