There is so much to catch up on! Wednesday was another cloudy, almost fall like (still hasn't dipped below 70!), day. Not to be deterred by potential rain, Paul and I booked it up to the New Territories to Tai Po. Mini-bus, subway, mini-bus, and we arrive in this cute little beach town; with the rest of Hong Kong. We enjoyed a lovely Thai lunch, although I think the curry I make is better, and rented bikes. We biked across a damn where you had to avoid children learning how to ride bikes, kids and adults flying kites, fishermen, 4 person family cart/bikes, and just a plethora of other people out cruising for the day. Paul managed to hit a kid and I saw a Jeje get choked out by a kite. The best thing though were the adults with training wheels!!! I guess it's like Korea where they can't swim, adults can't ride bikes here!! Too funny.
Ohhh tutoring! So now on Tuesdays I have Natalie who is 9 years old and so sweet! We just sit and go through her school work and I test her vocab and spelling. Her mom's English is pretty good (the 30 year old I though I was tutoring), and she wants to hook me up with some of her friends. Asa. And now on Thursdays I have a 5 year old girl who I have yet to meet! I love the little ones. Paul just picked up a gig on Tuesday evenings as well. One of his Chinese co-teachers hooked that up and she says she can probably get me some work too. I can handle working 2 hours a week I suppose.
Thursday was an amazing wine event. I joined the meetup group HK Wine Lovers, for obvious reasons, and attended my first event last night. The co-founded of the group is a co-owner of the bar Otto where is was held, as well as co-owner of Platinum Wines who provided the wines for the evening. They do sales to individuals and investments wines and just so happen to be hiring soon. I talked with everyone that worked there, made it abundantly clear that I would LOVE to work for them in ANY capacity, and followed up with some emails today. Here's hoping!! But yeah, good wines, really cool people, and hopefully a few new contacts! But man did it make this morning tough! I woke up at 7 (eeeh!) to attend a QlikView seminar. I had no idea what is was, but it was on this VIP email list of events I get (yes I am plugged in here!), and it was free so I thought why not. Turns out it was a sales pitch to buy their software, but I found it really interesting and met a couple interesting people. Turns out I'm not so good at networking while hungover. I kind of just sat to myself and sipped my coffee, but I did get 2 business cards and managed to talk with 2 people at RBS, one of which told me to switch fields. Really!? I mean you can think it, but you're really going to tell me to give up? Do people, strangers no less, really say that!? Paaashaw!
Anyway, tonight's a gallery opening that Paul and I will attend. Gallery opening= free cocktails, then tomorrow's a big rugby game, so we'll probably hit a bar to watch that. Sunday Paul and I are thinking about hiking, perhaps Dragon's Back in Stanley beach. It's supposed to be pretty easy and it's on the coast so it'll be pretty. I have photos from Tai Po but have been too lazy to get on my netbook to upload them...perhaps later today. What are you doing this weekend?
Ohhh tutoring! So now on Tuesdays I have Natalie who is 9 years old and so sweet! We just sit and go through her school work and I test her vocab and spelling. Her mom's English is pretty good (the 30 year old I though I was tutoring), and she wants to hook me up with some of her friends. Asa. And now on Thursdays I have a 5 year old girl who I have yet to meet! I love the little ones. Paul just picked up a gig on Tuesday evenings as well. One of his Chinese co-teachers hooked that up and she says she can probably get me some work too. I can handle working 2 hours a week I suppose.
Thursday was an amazing wine event. I joined the meetup group HK Wine Lovers, for obvious reasons, and attended my first event last night. The co-founded of the group is a co-owner of the bar Otto where is was held, as well as co-owner of Platinum Wines who provided the wines for the evening. They do sales to individuals and investments wines and just so happen to be hiring soon. I talked with everyone that worked there, made it abundantly clear that I would LOVE to work for them in ANY capacity, and followed up with some emails today. Here's hoping!! But yeah, good wines, really cool people, and hopefully a few new contacts! But man did it make this morning tough! I woke up at 7 (eeeh!) to attend a QlikView seminar. I had no idea what is was, but it was on this VIP email list of events I get (yes I am plugged in here!), and it was free so I thought why not. Turns out it was a sales pitch to buy their software, but I found it really interesting and met a couple interesting people. Turns out I'm not so good at networking while hungover. I kind of just sat to myself and sipped my coffee, but I did get 2 business cards and managed to talk with 2 people at RBS, one of which told me to switch fields. Really!? I mean you can think it, but you're really going to tell me to give up? Do people, strangers no less, really say that!? Paaashaw!
Anyway, tonight's a gallery opening that Paul and I will attend. Gallery opening= free cocktails, then tomorrow's a big rugby game, so we'll probably hit a bar to watch that. Sunday Paul and I are thinking about hiking, perhaps Dragon's Back in Stanley beach. It's supposed to be pretty easy and it's on the coast so it'll be pretty. I have photos from Tai Po but have been too lazy to get on my netbook to upload them...perhaps later today. What are you doing this weekend?
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