(8-3) Project Week 2013 Journals

[Mr. C]

-One well-written Paragraph (beginning, middle & end)

-Basic Info about you trip (location, participants, travel info)

-3 facts about location

-a positive (+ explanation)

-a negative (+ explanation)

-a funny (+explanation)

-recommendation? 

[Nicholas/Larry (8-3)]

My project week trip was set in Hong Kong. There were over 70 participants. I went to different locations by shuttle bus.

I learned that there was a government department called EMSD that not only dealt with electrics, and mechanics, but also had solar panels and wind turbines. Also, I learned that there is a center for productivity in Hong Kong and there are many mini-museums. I liked the food in Hong Kong but I thought that Hong Kong was too hot and sunny. Anything over 20°C is too hot for me. I thought that the performance of my group was quite funny as it was funnily acted.

[Katrina Hung(8-3)]

On this years project week trip I went to Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne is located in the south part of Australia, there were approximately 50 students and teachers together on this trip. The main purpose of this trip was to try out a famous activity in Australia, Horse riding, and also to visit the local schools in the area and interact with their students. There were a few facts I learnt about Australia throughout this trip, including their capital city, which was canberra. In the past I always thought that Sydney was the capital city of Australia. Also I discovered that steak was very cheap in Australia compared to Hong Kong, therefore we had a pretty nice time eating as much steak as we wanted. Lastly, we spotted a lot of wildlife in the city and in the camp where we stayed, animals including kangaroos, horses, lambs, sheep etc, it was very different from what we see in Hong Kong. Australians were really really friendly in general and was very enthusiastic and welcoming to foreign and domestic visitors like us, it made us felt more welcome than ever and we had a very pleasant stay. Although there were a lot of wild life to be seen in the city and on the streets, it was distracting at times, because you'll see them blocking the way and the roads at times, which was a obstacle to the cars. There were countless funny stories that we have to tell from this trip, but one I really remembered well was one of the teacher's horses, who wouldn't stop eating throughout the tracks and drinking in the rivers, therefore he always ended up being last, it may not seem as funny speaking of it now but it was really a funny experience.

In conclusion, I really like our project week trip to Australia and I would definitely recommend it to  our fellow schoolmates. However I think that the  age of the participants should not be younger than y8s, because overall, horses are still considered as large animals, which may be harder to ride and control for younger riders. Therefore I suggest that the minimum age of the participants will be not younger than 13.  

[Audrey Ching (8-3)]

Kangaroos and horses- There are kangaroos and horses all over the mountain, there were like 100 horses in the ranch and wild kangaroos bouncing everywhere, even at night! The horses each has a name and mine was named JACKO. <- CUTEST HORSE EVARRRRRRR. Also steak is cheap- The steak over there was wayyyyy cheaper than the ones in Hong Kong. We had a chance to go to the super market and we found out that steak is very cheap over there, probably because they have more cows. I mean A LOT OF COWSSSSSSSS MOOOMOO. Another fact I learnt is that the bigger the size of coin, the smaller the value is. For example a twenty cents coin look like this -> O, and a dollar coin look like this -> o. One of the negatives was that 20 girls have to share 1 bathroom, there were 2 bathrooms outdoor but the weather was too cold. The positive was that we lived in an airport hotel last night, IT WAS SOOOOO NICE! 2 person shares one room, even though the corridor was scary but nobody cares since the room was nice.

 

One of the funny thing that happened was that Ms. Wong (science teacher) was always talking to her horse and it was VERY funny. Her horse was Johnny and she say things like ‘Naughty Johnny!’ ‘Greedy Johnny!’ and stuffs like that.

This trip was a really nice experience, we get to survive 4 days without wifi. :D 

[Marion Chu (8-3)]

i went to Langkawi, Malaysia for my project week. I had fun during the trip, and i learnt a few things as well. People there are very religions, it's a muslim country therefore we need to show more manners and respect to them. They point with their thumbs, because they think pointing with your other fingers are extremely rude. I also learnt that there are a type of bird called hornbills, its a rare species and langkawi has the most bird species, and the most population of hornbills in malaysia.

A fun thing during the trip, to me, was sight seeing. I saw beautiful sun rise and sun sets through out the trip, during bird watching, and during camping on the beach, the sky was beautiful and the sky was really pretty. The spot were my group settled for bird watching has the best view of the valley beneath us, and the view was incredible.

A negative thing about this trip are the bugs. I sort of got a little use to it by the end of the trip but the ants still disturb me, as well as the spiders n lizards etc. i saw ants as huge as my fingernails, and it was terrifying.

A funny thing in the trip was, our trip was managed by a group called dragonfly, where our activities are all included into their programe. We were givin a camp shirt each for us to wear during plane flights, and the shirts, even the XS size, were huge. I find it very funny where there were quite a few Y6s that were wearing the smallest size, but since they were so tiny and skinny, they were all like wearing gowns. The sight of a group of Y6s like that seems funny to me.

I would recommend this trip to people who likes the nature. This is because we go water fall swimming, hiking, camping on a beach, planting trees, and kayaking. Kayaking was fun, and i think people who like the nature would enjoy it a lot. Indoor people might find it torturing. Although i recommend this trip for only y7s and above, because, kayaking for almost 3 KM is pretty tiring, and activities like hiking, where you need to climb over rocks and moss, can be pretty dangerous.

[Ian Lau (8-3)]

Project Week-Prague

I have always been looking forward for project weeks, where you get to go out with your friends on an educational and leisure trip in or outside Hong Kong.

Last year I went to Barcelona-Spain, and this year, I went to Prague-Czech Republic. Prague is the capital city of Czech republic, with population around 1.2 million people. The city is divided into 3 big districts, Old town, New town and Central Prague. Czech Republic is part of the EUROPA (European Union). Prague is very clean and beautiful with many historical architectures. Local people are very kindly and enthusiasm. Unfortunately, I caught cold on the very first day. But I was recovered the other day, which was very fortunately and did not affect my trip. We had a boat party dinner one day, and it was really fun. The funniest part were when the teachers are doing Kiyomi and singing karaoke in front of everyone, it was remarkable. 

I enjoyed this trip very much and I fully recommend it to other students, especially for the ones who like arts and humanities, since there are many art museums and meaningful and historical landmarks to visit.

 

[Ray Qi (8-3)]

Project Week Paragraph

 

            For my project week, I went to New Zealand. We mostly lived in a hotel in Queenstown. Queenstown is a resort town in the southwest of New Zealand’s South Island. Across our hotel is the gondola lift/gondola ride. After riding for approximately three minutes, you will then arrive at a park. In that amusement park, there are many fun activates including the zip trek, luge ride, buggy jumping, and mountain bike trails. A positive note about my trip would be the hike. Although the hike made us exhausted, weary, and spun, it taught us many important skills in life. For example, it made us more responsible by taking care of our stuff that we brought into the mountains, that we had to carry them with us for the whole hike. We also had to take care of our group mates and ourselves. One negative thing about our trip would be the Wi-Fi... The Wi-Fi was about twenty-one dollars for 50MB of data, or 3 hours. Something funny happened over the trip would be during the free time when Brian, Felix, Sil, and I were shopping for souvenirs. Inside souvenir shops, there were hilarious gifts including funny signs and silly nametags. I would recommend this trip to students above year 7 and below year 10. This is because this trip requires some levels of maturity but some of the activities might not be fun for year 11 and above.

On Monday, April 29, 2013 12:54:44 PM UTC+8, Mr. C wrote:

[Hoi Man Yau (8-3)]

During the project week I visited Malaysia. Malaysia is a place where it is always hot and humid, even when it is night time. People seem to enjoy spicy food there. I think the environment is somewhat well preserved, they grow a huge amount of trees there, even on highways and such, palm trees seems to be the most common type. One thing that was enjoyable was the orangutan sanctuary visit, you can see how the orangutans are enjoying their life and such. An unpleasant fact for me in Malaysia is that it is always searing hot and the sun burns your eyes, so it is not exactly enjoyable to stay outdoors for long periods of time. Something quite funny happened during the visit of the orangutan sanctuary, while some of us were taping the orangutans, one of them peed in a plastic bottle, shook the bottle a bit, and then it drank all the stuff that was in there. It was very surprising and disgusting but I found it funny anyways. (I am weird QQ) To conclude, I would recommend this trip to anyone that is not afraid of high temperature, and those who like the nature should definitely go on this trip at least once. ~_~

Mr. C於 2013年4月29日星期一UTC+8下午12時54分44秒寫道：

[Kevin Kung (8-3)]

This project week, i chose to go to Guang Dong, China. We stayed at this resort called Palm Island Resort. It was a very big resort with a golf corse and a BB gun field. The rooms we got to stay in was quite large, and was almost like an actual house. It had a kitchen, a living room, a master bed room, 2 small bedrooms and 2 toilets. There were only 5 people in a room. It also had a small shop where we could go buy bread and other small snacks like cup noodles and chips. The thing that i dislike about this is that, because of the amount of year 6 and 7 that signed up for this trip, the program and the activities were based for small children. I thought the activities wasnt that much fun and also childish. The thing that i thought was funny about this trip was every morning we had to wake up at about 6 to go do morning exercise, and if we woke up late and missed the morning mini bus we had to run to the lobby where we do out morning exercise so we wouldn't be late. It would be about a 15 minutes run, which was very tiring, after we got there we still had to do morning exercise. Then if you miss the mini bus again, you had to run back to the room which was about another 15 minutes run. But over all i didn't quite enjoy that much of the trip.

On Monday, April 29, 2013 12:54:44 PM UTC+8, Mr. C wrote:

[Ryan Kwong (8-3)]

  In this year project week, I went to Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne is a place that is so quiet, all the people are so kind to each other. We had ride horse for two and a half days, I think that riding is good because you can make friend to the horse and become easy to control the horse, I loved my horse and my horse call Optus. In this trip, I hate the most is wake up in the morning because it is very cold and when I wake up from the sleeping bag, I didn't want to go the sleeping bag, but still, it was a fun trip. The funnest that in this trip is in the third day of the trip. At night, we made a camp fire to getting warm, Mr Bewer talks a goest story about World War 1 and its about the golden arm, when in the last I don't know what Mr Bewer said but it scared some of the girls and the boys were laughing. I think that that moment is the funnest part in this trip.

  If next year project week have Australia or Japan trips, I will rather go to Australia. Don't go by yourself, take some of your friends, you will be happy and excite, hope you guys can go to Australia!!! (One more THING!!! If you are lucky, you can see a Kangaroos family bouncing around)  

[Mira Chow(8-3)]

My project week was set in New Zealand and there were 30 students and 4 teachers along this trip. New Zealand is in the Southern Hemisphere and it is divided into 2 main parts, South and North Island. Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand and New Zealand has less population than Hong Kong. The view there was really nice, it is natural and the air is clear. The area has not been polluted as much as Hong Kong and therefore, it was kept nicer and more natural than HK. One of the things I don't like about this trip was the food on the hike. We had to cook our own breakfast and dinners and we had bread for lunch. Despite the negatives, there were some funny parts about this trip. Some boys were trying to scare the girls and a few other y9 boys, it was hilarious when they (or me) started screaming because they were scared. It is also funny how the people who are trying to scare others screamed louder than the ones who were scared. We hiked on the Routeburn Track for 4 days and it was tough. Somehow, almost everybody got injured, we went back to Queenstown with cuts and bruises. We also went on the Skyline Gondola and Luge ride, it was fun yet, my car got bumped by another boy and i hurt myself. Ziptrek was also one of the things we did in Queenstown. We were afraid to go on it at first, but everyone overcame the fear and enjoyed it. Overall, I think this trip was fun, adventurous but yet, tough. For those who likes to have fun, hike or do sports, this trip is definitely the one to go.

On Monday, April 29, 2013 12:54:44 PM UTC+8, Mr. C wrote:

[Aaron Wang (8-3)]

PW Journal- Yosemite National Park- Aaron

            This year, I decided to choose Yosemite National Park, USA as my project week destination. Yosemite Park is a very unique place. Besides the tall mountains, the clean air, the spacious fields, the tall trees, and the occasional wildlife, Yosemite Valley is also home to Yosemite Falls. Yosemite Falls is the tallest waterfall in North America, stretching to be a staggering 739 metres tall. When we first arrived at Yosemite Valley, the waterfall didn’t seem that impressive, it just looked like a small waterfall at the side of the mountain, but when we hiked up the mountain to get a better view of the waterfall, it was colossal, the sound of all of the water rushing past us was deafening, the sight of millions of gallons of water falling down the waterfall amazed me. But what was even more surprising to me was that Yosemite Falls was a temporary waterfall and that all of the water cascading down it were melted snow that gathered during the winter. I can’t comprehend how much snow it would take to allow Yosemite Falls to rain down millions of gallons of water nonstop for half a year. 

            After staying at Yosemite Park for a few days, we traveled to Mammoth Mountain. There, we saw more environmental landmarks. One of the landmarks was Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe is the biggest alpine lake in the world. Though the trees were a bit in the way, I saw just how big it was, the lake seemed to be an entire ocean, it stretches across at a 35 kilometres. The mountains on the other side seemed very distant. It was unlike anything I have ever seen before.

            The best thing about this trip was taking pictures and looking at the scenery, Yosemite Park had one of the best scenery I have seen. It was breath taking. The tall mountains and trees surrounded the valley provided us with wonderful photo opportunities. During the entire trip, I always kept my camera in my hand to take photos of the environment. The park is nothing like what I see everyday in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, there are skyscrapers everywhere and the air pollutions blocks out the sky, everywhere you look there are buildings and more buildings. 

     The only downside I can think of about this trip was that during our stay at Yosemite national park, when we were staying in our tent cabins, it was freezing outside. During the night, the low temperature of the place was subzero meaning that even when were wore our jackets, it was still freezing outside. Luckily, we all had heater in our cabins. 

     One of the funniest things that happened during the trip was when Matthew Kwong pretended to be a bear and scared me and Scott. At Yosemite, bears are not uncommon, and to protect us from having them enter our cabins to find food, we have to keep all of our food items in a bear box outside of our cabins. The rule was so enforced that there was a $500USD fine and possible eviction from the camp if you failed to do so. So when Matthew came back from taking a shower, he pretended to be a bear and started growling. When Scott and I hear the noise, we went silent for a few seconds. Then, when I went to see what happened, he jumped at the door and startled me. I wished that the trip lasted longer so that I could experience more of the environment and learn more about the environment.

[Sam(8-3)]

I went on a trip which was based on Hong Kong. We were to do a presentation about the life of a fisherman and also the history of them. We went to Tai O, some tempo and Lama Island. When we went there, all we do was standing around and listen, except for Lama Island, we get to fish. It didn't went down too well for me since I stand there for a couple of hours and get nothing. Well, at least we learned that we need to put sunscreen on before fishing. Tai O and Lama Island is considered as a "Island district", so it's right next to the sea. Therefore people or "Islanders" fish for living, because that's all they use to have. They are great people, they live next to each other, so they often help out others in the village.

I wouldn't recommend anyone to go on this trip. It's hot, it's boring and is a absolute waste of a week. There is nothing exciting, and you'll get annoyed when you see how much fun your class mate had on other pweeks.

Mr. C於 2013年4月29日星期一UTC+8下午12時54分44秒寫道：

[Helen Hui (8-3)]

In this project week I have went to the Queenstown in New Zealand, We basically had sightsee-ing in and out of the town and hike up the Routeburn track. The routeburn track is a track for hikers to hike up several mountains and have a splendid view of the natural environment. It takes at least 4 days to finish, we have lived in different huts everyday and weren’t able to shower. D: But we still manage to have a great time, there are many beautiful landscapes, rainbows and waterfalls. While tackling obstacles of try not to trip or fall, we have to carry a heavy rucksack at our back for our clothes, toiletries and food for the 4days. Unfortunately, during the night hike park of the trip, some of our students had saw ghost and freaked out! But we had a fun time during the times in the huts, we played card games and true or dare etc. Except for the hiking days, we have went to play luge and zip trek in the skyline centre. Zip trek is really fun when you can slide through up side down, funfunfunnnnnn :DD and luge is like small cars where we can have a small races. IT IS SUPER FUN. In New Zealand, there are many sheep, when we are on our way to the routeburn track, we saw many farms with many sheep. This trip is really fun and we get to eat a BBQ lunch before we leave new Zealand. But it turns out, someone will BBQ for us and put it in the buffet and we get the food from the buffet. Which was exactly not we’re  hoping for. Still we manage to taste the yummy steaks and lamps while there are massive bees flying around and we all freaked out… This trip is a special experience and is very fun. xd I would recommend people to go to new zealand :D 

[Hoi Man Yau (8-3)]

*EXTRAS* After the project week I was feeling very tired. I decided to put myself into the sink and absorb all da water as I am a cactus, I am a fine cactus. After water absorption I proceeded to the Burrito Isle with my trusty cat, Tomato, with me. On arrival I proceeded straight to the potato worship center, where we were to bow before the enormous Anson shaped potato. It was said that when this legendary potato was young, his nickname was "Handsome Anson". He was one of the organic potatoes that were rare, in fact only 0.3% of the potatoes were organic, only 7 potato families were classified as organic. "Handsome Anson" belonged to the Fong potatoes. "Handsome Anson" was known for being so handsome that he defeated an army of oranges, single-handedly, just by posing..... I wish cactuses could be this powerful.. Which is also why I am going to this worship center, to hope that "Handsome Anson" would bless me with his powers... He did not do so... One day.. I believe.. One day. ~_~ 

Mr. C於 2013年4月29日星期一UTC+8下午12時54分44秒寫道：

[Christopher Tu (8-3)]

On Monday, April 29, 2013 12:54:44 PM UTC+8, Mr. C wrote:

PW week                Christopher Tu

England was a very pleasant trip overall but there was a few things that are making not want to return but its all the schools things that made me want to not go back because we didn't actually have any proper lunch unless u eat bread with cheese and ham everyday same horrible lunch but we acutely paid extra to eat in cafes of museums we go to so we can have better lunches. The dinner was pretty good, one fact that surprised me is that chinese food in England is not that bad even though the service was horrible there at the chinese restaurant basically the servers ignore you and don't give u what you want. A other fact is that in England people always recycle. There were recycle bins everywhere except in parks.

I think a positive thing in this trip was that we get quite a lot of free time even though we go to museums almost everyday and have to stay there for 2-3 hours every time we still get to walk on our own and with friends. Also the three plays we watch was actually not bad as i expected and was entertaining, for the parts that i was awake for and even still Mr.Bhatia thought it was boring but he didn't fall asleep.


A negative thing is that every time for some reason we take the bus to the opposite side of the london eye every day, and then walk to our destination then walk back to the london eye for our bus. Every walk we took was at least 15-20 minutes or more so the thing that I don't understand is why don't the bus take us to the destination or somewhere nearer to the destination and let us off there it was very tiering because after arriving you still have to  walk because its mostly a museum or a sightseeing place.


A funny thing is in one of the plays me and my friend saw a man sleeping when the play was going on witch have very loud music playing, still the man is asleep and was drooling on the floor we couldn't stop laughing because of his face. After the play has finished when people are exiting the man was still asleep and workers at the theatre had to wake him up.

I wouldn’t recommend year 7-8 to go because all i enjoyed was the time i spent with friends there and the shopping time which we spent our last day doing but if you like sightseeing and history you should go with the school. I think it would have been better without the school. But overall the trip was still fun.

 

[Michelle Cheung (8-3)]

Project week is a week for students go to different countries social and learning new cultures and different things. Having a whole new experience in the forest adventures, visiting the museums to learn arts and stuff. There’s a lot of fun through the whole week. The most important thing having project week is to be independent.

Melbourne is a place that was stated in Victoria. Victoria is located in Australia. Australia is on the southern hemisphere. Melbourne is countryside. There are not much tall buildings around like Hong Kong. Where I went for Project week is Camp Howqua. It has a really green and nice land full of grass and a cold and dry place to live. Hong Kong is really humid which is not like Australia.

The thing I enjoy the most is horse riding. My horse is Snowy, he is a pure white horse. Snowy has an attitude not many horse have. He will never start a fight or kick anyone. He is pure and nice to each other. He is a really clam and peaceful horse. I tried to put my helmet on top the horse saddle for one hour or more and he did not even move. The helmet will not fall. I am a really lucky girl to get a horse like Snowy.

The negative thing I hate and make me really frustrating is walking on poop at night. We have to walk on poop and wash our shoes again and again. We are not allowed to turn on the flash and look at the floor. Moreover, this event is not even on schedule.

The funny thing is we have to share a room with 20 girls. But the worst is we only got one toilet to take bath with. Well, it’s lucky that I am always the first one who go to the toilet because I often wash stuff and eat quickly like I have not eaten for ages.

Yes, I would recommend this trip to y7-y8 (s) or further grades. I would highly not recommended for children younger because they will not have the energy to control the horse if the horse personality is active and strong. Same for the elderlies .

[Ingrid:3 (8-3)]

Czech, Prague, a city all about arts. Famous artist and art works lived there. I loved there so much and I don't want to come back. Last year I went to Spain for project week. It was so much fun too. We learnt about the history of art and Jewish. Statues and legends are all around the street. Comparing to Hong Kong, Hong Kong is a very busy city, not like Prague. There are very little people on the street. There are many museums and gallery all around the city. The weather is cold and cool there, unlike Hong Kong.  I hope to go back to Prague later.

On Monday, April 29, 2013 12:54:44 PM UTC+8, Mr. C wrote:

[Anson Fong (8-3)]

Project week

 

 

            I went to South Africa in this project week we had seen many things about South Africa.

 

            When we are on the airplane, we are all excited in this trip, everyone was thinking about what will happen in there, and me and my friends had already planed what will do in the hotel when it was night time, because south Africa’s time is faster then Hong Kong’s time, so we were not tired at night time.

           

            In the first day of the trip, we had went to a island that there is a maximum prison in there, no one had ever gotten out from there. When we arrive there it was very silent, because there were only few people living on the island. When we got into the island, there is a guy that will talk about insides things, and that guy had live in the prison for 10 years already, so he knew lots of things inside, but there is no prisoners there already, because the government had changed his mined. In the first day of the dinner in south Africa, it was not awesome, because the food taste bad, but I still need to eat it, because I was starving in there, but luckily the dessert was delicious. After all of the walking and looking at stuffs, we were all tired as hell, so our night game was cancelled, but our game is just playing cards and writing journals together.

 

            In the Second day was the most tired day ever, because we had walked a long and high mountain (Table Mountain) we had taken 3 and a half hours to walk up to the top of the mountain. And it was funny that many people said that we are going to see some beautiful scenery on the top, but my funny friend said that I am going up for just getting some water and most of our people laugh. After all of the walking, we ate our lunch on there. Then we took cable cars to go back down and took the bus to a museum and saw lots of history about South Africa.

 

           

 

 

 

In the third day and forth day, is the best day ever, we went to a jungle that had many different kind of animals that we could see in there, in there We had seen elephants, cheaters, lions, Renoirs, but they were not in the wild, the hunter were trap in the giant cage beside big mountains. But they said that 3 years later they could let them get into to the others animals, because there is going to have enough food for the hunters.

 

            In the fifth day, we started our community project, we had to choose 2 job that we will need to do it. I had chose cooking and gardening in the farm, then the next day we will start our job, but we were playing netball, football and basketball in the fifth day, but in the mean time I was playing with the kids, they were is cute and tiny, but they were so strong and they liked fighting and the hit me in my back and legs, it hurt so much more then I thought.

 

In the sixth day we had cooked pumpkin, rice, vegetable and some meats, we brought it to the hospital and gave it to the people that were hungry. After that it was the same.

 

            In the seventh day, we had planted many vegetables, and it was not too tired, because my job is to put the cow poos to mud and the seeds will get better. After that we had seen a show that those kids in school had done it. And this is the last of the CS project we had said good bye to the people that we had helped, and I even cried for that, because they made me laugh and happy especially the camera guy, because he is so funny, and his dream is very nice, his dream is to know more about different people, and make people happy, and I think that is very meaningful.

 

            In the eighth day it was the last day and I need to use all the money but I got 850$, because if I choose to change back to Hong Kong dollars it will get 10% less, so I bought a painting that cost 600$!!! But I think it is worth it. After that We went back to HK.

[Thomas Ng (8-3)]

Thomas ng project

 

I went to New Zealand south island for hiking for 4 days. We need to take 3 flights to the south island, 2 big planes and 1 plane because south island is an island. We need to get on the island by taking a small plane. The main purpose of going on this trip is to see the most beautiful nature of the world and also exercise our body stat. New Zealand has the most beautiful nature environment in the world; also have the cleanest water in the world. The nature has never been polluting. The most famous animal in New Zealand is kea the bird, possum, moa, and kiwi, Haast's Eagle. The Haast's and the moa are extinct. The nature is very beautiful. The mountain was green; the field color is gold and dark green. The water so clear, you can see the bottom of the lake. Anyone can drink water from water tap. The most common animal we see is a farm animal. New Zealand is also a famous place for the movie lord of ring. The trip was very exciting. Everything in the New Zealand is very expensive. The trip of hiking was very dangerous and very tiring.

[Eva Yeung (8-3)]

This project week, I went to Prague, the capital of Czech Republic. Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Year 8 – 10 students have participated in this trip with four teachers bringing us there. The main purpose of this trip is that we can learn more about the cultures and languages in Czech Republic, as well as visiting famous landmarks, such as Prague Castle, the Old Town and the Prague Market. During this trip, we have involved community services. We have to clean up the roads in the zoo by digging out the dead plants. Some facts I have leant about Prague is that people there sell many toys that are made of wood like puppets. Secondly, the city of Prague looks very artistic and with many historical buildings. All the buildings are designed elegantly and beautifully. Thirdly, Prague is a really religious city because there are many gothic styles of buildings and buildings that revolve around the history of Terezin, which is a concentration camp run by Nazi. Another good thing about Prague is that the prices are very reasonable, the buildings are neat and tidy, and the streets are clean. Comparing with Hong Kong, the air quality in Prague is way better than Hong Kong. However, there is only one thing that I hate about is that the wooden puppets are so real like a person, it does not look cute, instead, it gives me chills when I look at them. Lastly, something really memorable and funny, is when we had a boat cruise for dinner, everyone went so hyper and excited. Apart from that, we celebrated two people’s birthday and they put whip cream on their faces that looked very funny and it became a party instead.

In conclusion, I think Prague is a great place to visit again. On the last day, I still did not wish to come back to the hectic life of Hong Kong. Unfortunately, time flies quickly, and I hope I can go there once more and learn more about their cultures.

 

[Ian Chiang (8-3)]

Yosemite America

In the past week almost all the secondary student in victoria shanghai academy were able to choose a country to visit for the week. I chose to go to a national park in north america. This park is one of the most amazing national park in the whole world. Wherever you are you’ll see amazing views of landscape and falls there. Everyday we ate burger and it was kind of boring we couldn't resist from all the amazing activities we enjoyed through the whole trip. On the first day we went sight seeing which i was total amazed in the spirit San francisco towards Baseballs and their own foreign team “The Giants”. When we got to Yosemite park, I was absolutely amazed by the Yosemite Falls. It is the highest fall in North America. We went cycling, hiking, rock climbing, photography learning... ... I had an amazing time at Yosemite. Everything was amazing. I wished to use at least money for this trip but at the very last day, I could not bare only looking at all those souvenirs. At the end I bought alto of things to bring to hong kong.