Yesterday the training group went up Sunset Peak we were supposed to take the 8am #2 bus up to Ngong Ping, but the bus drove right past us at the stop so we ended up having to do the trek in reverse.
I brought 5.5 liters of water and drank all of it by the time we got back at around 5. I drank almost 8 liters by the end of the day...It was probably in the mid 90's plus humidity so it probably felt like it was 105.
We made it up and over Sunset and back down where we decided that everyone didn't have enough water to make the push over Lantau Peak (the tallest on Lantau and second in HK at over 900m or 3000+ feet) which is pretty much an Adirondack sized peak besides the fact that we actually start at sea level...
My task given by Dave yesterday was to lead 4 debriefs on 4 different "generations of facilitation" that we learned from our seminar a couple weekends ago. I thought they went really well. I "frontloaded/framed the experience in one" "Spoke for the experience" "Used metaphor to debrief the experience" and the good ol' "What? So What? Now What?" Dave seemed pretty impressed, it felt good to do some ALE style fly-by-intuition and to be able to use all my tools that have become rusty since arriving here...
The next couple of weeks will be training combined with some short camps until we hit October where it will be "full on" and we'll have hundreds of kids coming for multiple nights each week.
I just booked a week long trip back to Cebu starting September 20th, now if i can just finish typing the journal from the last time I was there...
Hope all's well in 'Merica land, until next time....
Friday, August 28, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Busy, Busy, Busy....
This last week was a very busy one. All the senior leaders had a surf camp group this week and we were also on pickup. This meant that all of us had to catch the van at 6:40 every morning this last week to take the 7:10 fast ferry into the city to pick up the kids and take the 8:30 slow ferry back to Lantau.
It was a good week for me, nice to get back into the swing of things working with the kids again. I had "Black Team" which is the oldest of the attendees so ages 10-13. I had from 11 to 14 kids throughout the week. A few of the days were really challenging, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday were all mostly inside because of lightning procedure. It was all organized really well, but was frustrating for me and the kids not being able to surf.
One highlight of the week was drinking coffee with Irish Cream and buying amazingly awesome egg tarts at the ferry pier. They are so delicious, it reminds me of eating french toast. For whatever reason they don't keep many of them in stock so every morning I'd buy the last one or two of them, I'd also pickup a coconut roll, pinapple roll, coconut and creme, or pinapple and butter depending on what was in stock. They were inexpensive too, i'd get a filling breakfast for less than 14 HKD (so less than $2 US)
Today it's a laptop party at the flat, haha, not planning on doing much for the rest of the day, I think i'll look up campsites for an overnight Katy and I might go on next weekend, I'll also do some more research on the iPod Touch.
I've been fixing or trying to fix Meaghan's laptop for the last week. The Doc's prognosis is acute hard drive failure. The procedure to extract the faulty hardware will commence shortly, I expect it to take no more than 15 minutes, although the computer will need to remain on life support until a suitable replacement is found. I put her on the donor list, but it's not looking good... Looks like a return to "Nerd's Mecca" (aka Golden Computer Center in Sham Shui Po) is imminent. Now if you'll excuse me I have to prep for surgery
It was a good week for me, nice to get back into the swing of things working with the kids again. I had "Black Team" which is the oldest of the attendees so ages 10-13. I had from 11 to 14 kids throughout the week. A few of the days were really challenging, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday were all mostly inside because of lightning procedure. It was all organized really well, but was frustrating for me and the kids not being able to surf.
One highlight of the week was drinking coffee with Irish Cream and buying amazingly awesome egg tarts at the ferry pier. They are so delicious, it reminds me of eating french toast. For whatever reason they don't keep many of them in stock so every morning I'd buy the last one or two of them, I'd also pickup a coconut roll, pinapple roll, coconut and creme, or pinapple and butter depending on what was in stock. They were inexpensive too, i'd get a filling breakfast for less than 14 HKD (so less than $2 US)
Today it's a laptop party at the flat, haha, not planning on doing much for the rest of the day, I think i'll look up campsites for an overnight Katy and I might go on next weekend, I'll also do some more research on the iPod Touch.
I've been fixing or trying to fix Meaghan's laptop for the last week. The Doc's prognosis is acute hard drive failure. The procedure to extract the faulty hardware will commence shortly, I expect it to take no more than 15 minutes, although the computer will need to remain on life support until a suitable replacement is found. I put her on the donor list, but it's not looking good... Looks like a return to "Nerd's Mecca" (aka Golden Computer Center in Sham Shui Po) is imminent. Now if you'll excuse me I have to prep for surgery
Saturday, August 8, 2009
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