A bit late with the blog but when you are thinking in Gwungdongwa (Cantonese), your English gets a bit rusty! This week was an intense first week of language class--15 of us are struggling hopefully together. A good cross-section of Asia, Europe and the US are represented in the class with Japan, US, Korea, Switzerland, Scotland, India, Malaysia and Taiwan. Our class with make a weekend visit to Guangzhou at the end of the month and I'm looking forward to it (probably most because that means the course will be over)! This week was the 10th 'reclamation celebration' of HK's return to China and the fireworks demonstration over the harbor was the most spectacular one that I have ever witnessed. Gold, silver, red and green were the primary colors exploding in groups of 8 and
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