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Volunteer Coach seeking advice__Rose Ho

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2013 Jun 01  (Sat)

Getting their energy out

I have been forewarned by the volunteers that the bunch of kids who need afterschool tutorial on their homework are all hyperactive.   Imagine…a ratio of 1 (volunteer coach) to 4 (Grade-2 kids) is way too much for the coach to handle.   I was told it’s more of a challenge to keep these kids sit still than to teach them homework.

“OK…”, I registered the words in my memory. Continue reading →

11 years ago__Rose Ho

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Eleven years ago, I was scheduled on a UA flight back from Hong Kong to Toronto (via Chicago) for my annual vacation on September 11.   That was the day when the WTC and the Pentagon were attacked and the former fell.   As of this day, I still feel I was very lucky and blessed to have escaped this disaster.

If I hadn’t had earlier availability in the work schedule….if I hadn’t kept chasing UA for a change to an earlier flight….if I hadn’t been put on the flight of September 8, 2001…. ….I would then be ….at best stuck in the air or in some boonie land, and at worst, vanished from this world.

Eleven years had gone by, I still felt grateful….not only for that trip, but for every safe trip I made.

廬山 真面目

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There was a saying that people longed to see the true face of Lushan.  We saw it.  But it begs the question of whether it’s better to see Lushan in a veil or to see it in its bare face.
 
We hit one of those 175 days when the mountain is not covered in mist or clouds.
 
But I have to say that we were lucky we didn’t hit any collapsed bridges, crashed road accidents nor encounter any collapsed buildings.  We only hit a collapsed highway which our tour operator bypassed by looping around Zhejiang, the neighbouring province, when we had to see San Qing Shan in Jiangxi, the province we were visiting.
 
Enjoy this bare face of Lushan in the Jiangxi province.