Life since Disney

Life since Disney has been quite busy.  We had parent teacher conferences, a dinner trip to Sai Kung with our neighbor's aunt and uncle (and our neighbors too:), Halloween and getting ready for the pre visit by the accreditation crew to school.  I found a harpist for the Christmas concert (for Fantasia on Greensleeves by Vaughan Williams), and have been getting ready to go to Indonesia next week for Week Without Walls (I'll come back to that).

On Halloween all of the 7th floor folks got together and we had trick or treating for the kids and a pizza party for everyone.  Tim and I dressed up as Hogwarts Students (thanks to a friend from Chippewa and fellow grad student of mine).  It was so nice getting everyone together :)  We even had halloween music playing in the background thanks to Pandora and my vpn.

Happy Halloween!

Decorations!  They were awesome :)

This past weekend was a really nice one.  We had a Pilates class on Saturday morning, hung out and read at Pacific Coffee in the afternoon before dinner.  On Sunday we went to church, sung in the choir, had another wonderful lunch there and then headed to the Peak to walk the Peak Trail and hang out on the little outdoor patio of Pacific Coffee at the peak.  :)  Here are some Peak pics - the last time we went we were thwarted from the trail by crazy rainstorms.  Sections of the peak trail were built around 1913 and it consists of this concrete path held up by pillars.  You can see some of the original iron and concrete work in the pics below :)  Click on any of the pictures to make them larger :)

A statue in front of a house on the Peak Trail

Original Railings on the Peak Trail

Hong Kong Island by Day

As promised from earlier - Week Without Walls is when the entire middle school empties and goes elsewhere for class for the week.  There are local service and adventure groups as well as groups traveling internationally for service and adventure trips.  I am one of the chaperones for the Indonesia service trip and I am looking forward to traveling there and seeing it :)  We will be building volleyball courts, teaching English lessons and who knows what else.  I'll have an update on that when I am back.

Even with the craziness that is going on in life right now things are really good.  I decided to do the thankful thing every day this month.  I find that some days the crazy starts to take over and feel really overwhelming.  It is nice to force myself to remember that I do have a lot to be thankful for.  There is a song that I can't stop listening to lately.  If you haven't heard it go ahead and check it out.  Its quite clever but the point of the song helps me remember to not become an almost 30 fuddy duddy when I find myself tempted to do so when I can be a slightly over 25 fun loving adventure seeking person.

Keep Your Heart Young by Brandi Carlile

"You gotta keep your heart young

Don't go growing old before your time has come.

You can't take back what you have done

You gotta keep your heart young."

Hong Kong Island by Night

Love,

Christine and Tim