International Peace One Day

For just one day a year (not sure why it can't be all year) the world observes Peace One Day. QSI Shekou is observing Peace One Day. Each teach is doing something in their classes to at least mention it and then figure out a way to observe it. After my students' writing prompt assessment, I am introducing Peace One Day, (ironically, the students know more about it than I do because it is not observed in the states) then I am showing them a couple of YouTube videos that explain it. There is also a music video. I'm posting all of them below.

Peace One Day (You Tube Video Explaining Peace One Day):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FmEIP46B-E&feature=user

Peace One Day (You Tube Video - Imagine If There Was a Day):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L_PowoTU3A&feature=user

Peace One Day (You tube Music Video - One Day One Goal):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QUJXtvrtLU&feature=user

Teachers reading this might want to mention it tomorrow in your classrooms. There are a ton of materials online reached by a simple Google search. You can use my Google search if you wish to make it easier.

Jamie and I will be relaxing this weekend and watch some college football games on early Sunday morning. Not sure what we are doing Saturday. We might go to Windows of the World if the weather is nice. It is cooling down here, but still very very muggy. We haven't had a clear day of none haze/smog in over 2 weeks. They say that is the norm here. Oh well.

We have booked our hotel for Phnom Penh. I am happy about it and they act as our travel guide while we are there. We are staying at the Frangipani Villa in Phnom Penh From there, we'll take a boat/ferry to Siem Reap and stay at a guesthouse there. Then, we'll travel back to Phnom Penh for our flight back to Hong Kong. I'm really excited about going to Angkor Wat. For those who haven't done their homework on Angkor Wat, here is the wikipedia page on it... Angkor Wat.

Typhoon Night

The tail end of Typhoon Nuri which hit Shekou and Shenzhen ended up being more extreme than the front end. High winds lasted into the night. Not bad, but it was really loud as the wind caught between the buildings and the small cracks and breezeways in the apartment. We had some wind come in through a vent in the kitchen and it sounded just like and was as loud as a buzzsaw. Amazingly, we never lost internet service as was still able to watch TV through Slingbox the entire night. Isn't technology amazing! We did have some water come in our bedroom window through the cracks. We placed some towels down which seemed to help. The windows rattled some but all was well. We're going to go into work for a while and walk around to see if anything else around our immediate area was disturbed. We certainly hope not.

I'll write back later this evening and let you all know about our day today. We are planning on possibly going to Windows of the World tomorrow in Shenzhen. I'll be taking a TON of pictures there and will have them posted by Sunday night. Have a good Friday...