Intro and Funny Stuff in Hainan

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This November, HKIS had its PEAK trips. I can't remember what PEAK stands for, but it's a week when the school closes down and all the kids are off on trips around China. Sixth graders all do the same trip - this year, to Beijing and Xian. Eighth graders go on adventure trips in pretty large groups. And seventh graders have the best trips of all - they get to choose four of the trips on offer and get placed in one of those four. the trips are either hiking, biking or community-service oriented. This year, I went with the trip to Hainan Island, an island off the eastern coast of Vietnam.

We cycled 100 k.m. over four days - which, really isn't all that much for real cyclists, but was perfect for me.

Here are some photos from this trip I took with 20 kids, a fellow social studies teacher (Denny!), an awesome bike guide (Junior!) and nurse (Teresa!). Both Junior and Teresa had just finished the trip with a first group and then met us to start it up all over again. Wow!

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