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It's so hard to believe we have been here for a month already! Reality has set in that we are in fact "living abroad" and confirmed by the fact that we are still met with challenges to get simple things that we were once used to doing without so much as a thought! Examples: making a copy or printing something off or having a screwdriver on hand or......this list could go on forever! Of course, the fact that our "things" haven't arrived here probably make this that much more of a challenge. Maybe I'm venting a little because today was the original date we were given for our things to arrive but the delivery date has been set for Jan. 31st. Two more weeks! AAaaguugggghhhh! Apparently our ship missed the "call at the port" or something and ended up in Singapore - whatever. The good side to this is that Jeff will be here for the delivery whereas today, and as I type this, he is just taking off to Germany for a week. I was kind of dreading the idea of trying to keep Ethan busy by myself when our shipment was being delivered and unpacked anyway. Though I'm sure giving him just one of the boxes would have held him over for a few hours. :0)
This week our helper Janice and I (and Ethan too of course) will go to Immigration to take care of the employment contract. We still won't have her start until Feb. 9th but this is something that has to be done in the "contract" phase. I'll be working on daily/weekly/bi-weekly/monthly schedules and our House Rules in the next few weeks to come. Something a bit more fun this week will be the Chinese New Year party at Ethan's school on Friday. We're suppose to dress the children in chinese clothes so I'll be dressing him up in his "Halloween Costume," which as you may remember was Kung Fu Fatigues. LOL I was given the ok on this by Jillian and Anita (co-workers of Jeff's that we had dinner with this past Saturday night). I'll definitely take pictures and post.
Chinese New Year is obviously a HUGE celebration here. Much bigger than we even begin to celebrate the NY in the States. They've been celebrating it seems for the last couple of weeks in ways of "specials" at restaurants and stores and in decorating everything and anything! It falls on January 26th this year (changes yearly due to the Lunar calendar) and this year will be considered the Year of the Ox. The image on this post is the official symbol for this year. I'll be certain to add our take on this as we learn about and experience it here. For now, wikipedia comes through for a viable resource to learn more about this fascinating holiday: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year
As well as this site:
On a side note, I was also able to find more in depth details about where we actually live in Hong Kong. If you're interested the link is also at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Bay
That's it for now, but be sure to check back often for Chinese New Year photos as well as my latest venture of taking/sharing photos of things we think are "weird" and "different" random things here. This should keep me busy for the entire time we're here! :0)
Missing you all TONS!!!!
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