What's in a name??

Life has been pretty full on in the past 2 weeks. I've slowly been getting into my new job and I have to admit its been going quite well!. I'm definitely happy to be out of the kindergarten and into primary school! Waaay better! I'm teaching P1 and P2 classes so the kids are really active and also quite smart! I teach a total of 10 classes - 37 students in each class - 10 classes - NO WAY of remembering their names but I have made a list of the most amusing names i've come across till now.

Whatever happened to the good old days when we gave kids normal names like Peter and Jane? What followed was a craze on naming kids after famous people - Elton, Shania, Brooke and the inevitable Britney. Here in Hk it seems like the fashion is to actually MAKE UP kids names - the more exuberant and unpronounceable the better!!! Here are the names of some of my students, which I tried to organise in order of retardedness but they are all way to quirky to organise!! -

Girls=
1. Cherry
2. Godiva (chocaholic?)
3. Melody
4. Shania (wow..here too?)
5. Yoyo (somebody please tell her parents this is NOT a name!
6. Tango (you lost me here)
7. Jainta (huh?)
8. Querida (?!*%$)
9. Eunice (ugly)

Boys=
1. Pelton
2. Sunny
3. Enoch
4. Nathaniel
5. Jasie (JayZ?)
6. Dickson (wot?)
7. Lordman (double-wot?)
8. Shneider (saved the best for last!! hahahaha)


In other updates - I've signed up for a half marathon in aid of UNICEF happening on the 2nd December! So as from next week starts my 10week intensive/bad hair running program, with my only rest days being the 2 days i'll have evening classes at UNI. I've been getting back into running for the past 2 weeks and it hasn't been too bad so far. The hardest thing has been coordinating my meal times and my running times, so I have invested in a very untrendy but lifesaving THERMOS!! He is my new lover and he goes everywhere with me! thanks to him I have nice wholesome lunches at school and am not starved for my run. He also has his own bag with little handles so I can carry him around like a purse and nobody would guess whats in it! He's quite a stylish man! ;-)

Greetings from six floors up!

It's official... i made it! :-)

After a gruelling two days of going back and forth from old to new apartment carrying countless boxes and suitcases, I finally completed the move. Since then I've pretty much been trying to recover from it - my aching, sick and bruised self was physically and mentally stressed out. My colleague Paulina was an angel sent from above - she helped me paint, clean, carry .. pretty much everything. I think I owe her dinners for the next year!

Once all my stuff was in, the place was a total mess - boxes and bags were scattered all over the place - and just looking at the mess I thought i was gonna have a panic attack. Those of you who know me well are aware that i'm a serious neat freak - and I have to admit that I scare myself sometimes - this case in particular i needed to close myself in my bedroom so I wouldnt see the mess in the rest of the house! hahahaha! *sigh*

Over the weekend I got myself organised. Sorted through my stuff, did more work around the house, and the most exciting part - bought a tv off the street!! Here in Hk you can see people sitting on the corner with 2nd hand appliances lying around closeby. There is one guy just 2 blocks away. I had been keeping an eye on him for a week or so - one day he had a washing machine, another day a monitor, then a tv but far too huge, until BINGO, there lay my TV looking fairly abandoned and lonely on that cold pavement! So after agreeing on a price the man picked up the bloody thing and carried it to the fruit shop across the street and plugged it in so we could check that it worked! LOL! hilarious! After that he carried it to my place and for the humble price of lm20 i now have a tv! lol

Today I started my new job but I have nothing exciting to say because i pretty much did nothing all day. However, from today I am officially a commuter and I must say, i quite like it! :-)

SO here are some BEFORE pics of my apartment although I had already done some work when these pics were taken. Most doors had been painted although you can still se one hideous brown door so just imagine all doors in that colour! AFTER pics to follow soon!


living room...my bedroom right inside and spare room on the right. P.S... BROWN door! ugh


other end of living room


my kitchen!! more BROWN! If youre wondering where the doors lead to - one is a mini terrace (about 1m by 1m lol) the other is a back exit which isnt used anymore.