Hong Kong Coombes

Updating this evening from the comfort of my new living room in my flat in Lai Chi Kok. I have moved in with Fran who has come out to Hong Kong to work for Chunky Onion and we'll be here now for at least the next year!! Feeling very settled now. I have been in Hong Kong for over 5 months now, and time is passing both slowly and ridiculously quickly. The though that I have been out in HK for almost half a year is crazy, its gone by so fast and yet week to week I have endless time to do work, chill out, see friends, do some ridiculous things... So since my last update when i returned from shanghai work has been great - have gained some amazing experiences, namely teaching teachers in ... read more

OOOOooooookkkkkkk. wow last time i wrote in this i hadnt even been in hong kong for 8 weeks! reading that last entry seems so long ago its cbeen crazy times since. i will update now but much more briefly than i should - mainly in an attempt to catch up the last two months!! so. i was 3 days into a 20 day stretch of work. thats DONE. the experiences gained from that were fantastic - especially working with the deaf young peopl at chun tok school in diamond hill. by the end of may (the 25th) i finished all 5 projects i had been running which was a great weight off my shoulders and brought with it a great feeling of accomplishment. some great experience gained and putting together exercise lists and games as well ... read more

peace. it does not mean not being in a place with no noise, trouble or hard work. it means being in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. peace and light xxxx... read more

WOW! the 6 week mark has come and gone - bit crazy. time passing so quickly and yet feels like it is not passing at all and i have been here no time, and yet forever. looking far ahead plans for the next year seem to revolve around the arrival of different friends and family. april - work may - work / book shanghai flights june - visit shanghai see emma (between now and july) july - visit shanghai see emma (or before) august - work (summer beach parties everyday) september - work october - emma, scott lyndsey come and stay november - my birthday - crazy month december - christmas!! / dad comes over january - dad leaves / work february - work march - mum and rach visit and ONE YEAR! after that i ... read more

Week 5 time is beginning to pass quickly. i spent a lot of my 5th week running workshops in sha tin and kwun tong. the workshops are going well - first week being slightly slow as i have to try and get to know the kids. Its been great getting back into running workshops and discovering i can still do it quite naturally. managed to plan the next few weeks of sessions for different sets of workshops which ws cool. had some hilarious performances this week - especially thursday after a long early morning running workshops turned up for lunch and had robin hood in the afternoon - just hilarious. WEEKEND rugby sevens. SUNDAY plan was to meet at rich and stef's flat at about 8am woke about half 7 showered and got some music on ... read more