#366
Me: How was your school field trip, darling?
Rockstar: It was sooooooo good! We cleaned a beach! 5 or 6 BIG BAGS of trash! A-and we met a crazy guy who lives on top of a hill. We had to climb the hill to visit him.
Me: Why is he “a crazy guy”?
Rockstar: He makes his own toothpaste and soap! Baking soda!
Me: How is that crazy?
Rockstar: How could he possibly have learned to do that, he’s got no internet.
Me: Uh…….
Rockstar: <thoughtfully> May-be he went to a shop with internet, downloaded everything he needed, then went back up his hill to not need internet.
Me: Uh… You don’t think he could have… read books?
Rockstar: No Google….. <shrugs>
Me: There. Are. Libraries. You have been taught library skills in school. You know, books with the actual paper pages?
Rockstar: He doesn’t have that many muscles. You’d have to look through a lot more books. Only two lightbulbs in his house. Two! Also, no computers (to search a library).
Me: It’s Green Week. You are supposed to be all environmental. Not incredulous people live without computers. Come to think of it d’you think it’s alright to call people “crazy”?
Rockstar: <glances at my laptop> He doesn’t have internet. He won’t know.
Me: Excuse me???
Rockstar: Oh ok, I’ll…. clean more beaches. There was so much trash. We picked up so much and there’s still so much more. Or… I could clean his house. Just don’t cut my <pause> internet. <wanders out of the room>
Nb: Rockstar’s school won the Gold Award in the Hong Kong Green Schools Awards this year, and a Silver Award for Primary Schools in the Hong Kong Awards For Environmental Excellence; there are 571 primary schools in Hong Kong.
Rockstar and friends (several of whom have wandered out of the frame with their cups) on yoghurt break after the trip before we all went our separate ways…
Beach scene someone sent me (couldn’t put anything else up, lotsa faces)
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***Updated with a few more pictures; photo credit Denise Pontak Photography.
Obviously pro right…
Dis Is Art: Standard issue beach cleaning gloves… the girls looking out to sea… This my favourite…
Of course this too…
And of course this one’s Rockstar’s favourite. It is a stinkbug. Of course it is. (Rolls eyes)
Well done to the school for getting the award and for teaching children to be environmentally friendly and not be a litter bug.
Is it dangerous to allow the children to talk to whoever it is who live up the hill?
Some of the people they visited living there used to work at the school (before moving to someplace too far away I suppose…) It’s one of the big trips a couple of year bands at Rockstar’s school then makes every year as part of their learning journey…