Friday, November 14, 2008

Day 4 in Hong Kong

We visited Yan Chai Hospital in Hong Kong for our CIP. I must say I was a bit taken aback by their hospitality - they had prepared a banner to welcome us and had made all the necessary sound setup. They even invited the elderly volunteer group and I was surprised to hear that most of them are in their eighties. I talked to one of them and she told me she came to the hospital to volunteer everyday! Our group presented some song items and games.We actually bought 10 first aid kit from Singapore and bought 2 packet of rice, 2 cans of oat meals and 2 cans of ovaltine from the Kowloon City Mall for the old folks (the teachers shared the cost of the items). The students interacted with the elderly and one of the elderly cried and she told me it was because she was very happy with our students visiting them. We also had a tour of the nursing home in the hospital to understand more about their facilities as well as more of the elderly in hong kong. As the service is heavily subsidized (the resident only pay HK$2000 as compared to almost HK $10,000 in the private nursing homes) there is a long waiting list for the Yan Chai Nursing Home.

After that we had lunch, which again is such a spread with corn soup, platter with char siew, shellfish and japanese seaweed, prawns, french bean, lettuce, chicken with pepper, duck slice with cucumber etc. After that we shopped at Granville Road before we went back to our hotel to pick up our lugguage. Bernice's family were also there waiting to pick her up as they will be spending 4 more days in Hong Kong.
We went to the Factory outlet near to the airport and the students did some last minute shopping. Many of us bought some "wife biscuit" as souvenirs for our family in the airport. We also took our dinner at the airport as check in was at 6.30 p.m.
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