September Blog

I returned to Macau late August and went right into work the second day back, mostly attending meetings and professional development. Later in the week I attended Blue Man Group which was an excellent performance at the Venetian theatre. What creative minds must create shows like the one I had the pleasure of seeing. I’ve also purchased tickets for Stomp showing next week.

The five-year olds are settling in well and learning all of the routines. It’s been busier than last year at this time so am hoping it will slow down a bit. My co-teacher Linda Steib used to explain it as ‘hardly catching your breath’. The busyness could be a factor due to having to prepare for a whole day now without allowing for a nap for the children in the afternoon. We have a daily prep or more but only two per week are individual preps. The rest are team prep time, co-teaching prep time, Mandarin and class teacher prep time.

I had a long weekend this weekend (only one of the year) and ventured with two other people over to mainland China to Schenzen to visit Dafen Village. Dafen village was a revitalization project by ‘artists’ to clean up an area and set up stalls at which they create and sell representations of famous artworks. There are a few artists there that create original works which I am interested in returning to purchase one of their pieces. I hadn’t taken enough yuan with me when I went and didn’t carry a credit card. I just need to go back, I guess. Take care all and hope the autumn is enjoyable.

 

 

 

 

 

New Wynn Palace is opened. What you see in both of these photos is all real live flowers.