McDonalds and Moving Day...

Yesterday was moving day so the night before we attempted to pack up our stuff as neatly and as carefully as we had brought it, but as Stewart the delightful Brittish man that's a full time volunteer for Mother's Choice ( He does everything from moving luggage to changing ink cartridges-that's likely spelled horribly sorry) put it " have you already packed away more things in one week?" ( I imagine he was thinking about carrying my 49.5 Lb bag down the series of 40 stairs and then small hills and then back up 3 flights of stairls once in the building- and yes mybag was just under the weight limit for the airline) We indeed did have to carry all of our luggage down some hills and up 3 flights of stairs, but stewart and his helper carried all of our massive bags. Stewart is one of those people you just feel happy when your around.. Maybe it's his chipper accent or maybe it's his helpful manor either way he's super.



Our new flat is right accross the hall from the CEO of Mother's Choice and his wife( they're American) and 3 kids who we met on the way. We also met their " domestic assistant" the technical name for a nanny who we share the volunteer flat with. The volunteer flat is lovely and hopefully at some point i'll be able to put up some pictures. Currently we don't have wireless, but when Stewart stopped by to put in new ink cartridges he said he would see what he could do about that since 3 of us have lap tops with us( again exemplifying Stewarts amaziningness) So because we don't have wireless i'm typing from our desktop computer which the view isn't too shabby from :) it over looks quite an amazing skyline which at night produces some sort of laser light show... very interesting.. Anyways our new flat is delightful. Yesterday was spent moving in since this will be our home for the rest of our stay in Hong Kong. We unpacked napped, and then ran several errands including the purchase of a blow dreyer ( necessity) and then last night we watched Just My Luck with Chinese Subtitles... Stupid movie entertaining with the subtitles that we couldn't read...

Because we're so high up the lights from the skyline seriously light up our flat even when we don't have any lights on so it was an early morning this morning. Sui Cho picked us up at 8:30 and we all headed to the MTR station took the blue line to the end got off, took mini bus 48 walked through the hospital to sector F up to floor 8 where we were then at one of the Mother's Choice Small group home ( all in all the commute took approximately 1 hour each way I believe) We got to see the facilities we will be working in as well as meet some of the staff and meet some of the kids. It was great ( although admittedly there so called play ground is very sad) Each small group home is has 8-10 kids and then 1 special needs child. The home also has a house good and a house parent and then a social worker. After our site visit we came back and Wenda picked us up and took us out for a delightful lunch at the Chinese buffet...( strange I think i've seen those in America- but they were nothing like this!) It was very good all except the beef ball and there were a few things I avoided eating because I either couldn't pronounce or they were clearly internal organs... Lunch was very informative we had the opportunity to ask Wenda many questions about Mother's Choice and other things as well( Most people come home with kimonos or chopsticks.... after hearing her talk i'd consider taking home a child) Mother's Choice truly does amazing work. We have spent the afternoon relaxing since the weekend is sure to be busy. I walked down to Hong Kong Park for a bit and also to a book store which was fun. Hong Kong Park is very peaceful and incase I haven't mentioned I love the waterfall and the turtles... Don Comes tomorrow so that will be good and helpful as well. Pretty sure that's up to date although i've likely forgotten a lot. Thanks!
Tina