Kids' recording
Last Friday I was suddenly hauled off to record short poetry bits for the Lutheran School kids to listen to my voice to help them prepare for a big English language recital event coming up here in Hong Kong. I only remember one poem which had to do with a snowman melting into a puddle. I wonder what these tropical weather kids will make of that.
Classical Radio
On Monday I recorded five two and a half minute spiritual "reflections" for a classical radio station
(RTHK 4 FM Hong Kong 11:57pm -12:00 midnight)
They will be aired next week. When I was asked to do it I thought, aw, piece of cake. Not so. Brevity is harder than it looks.
I also asked, who stays up until past midnight to listen to classical music and a three minute meditation? The answer in Hong Kong is, tens of thousands of people. Oh.
Parent videos and clip art
On Wednesday I received word that they would be filming my class for parent-teacher conferences taking place on the Mainland for those students who cross the border each day for school. Naturally I wanted to make a good impression so I spiffied up a power point phonics review, complete with lots of painstakingly chosen pictures. Honestly, I put in at least a couple of hours just for this one short class. But today, none of the pictures would appear on the (older) system being used at the school. However, a technician who barely speaks English, just quickly added a bunch of clip art pictures. It took him probably all of 8 minutes, and I have to say it was at least as good as the carefully chosen pictures I had searched out all over the internet.
SongWe are doing "The Wise Man Built His House Upon the Rock" with the second graders this week. For good measure, I taught it to the teachers when I led the teachers' devotions today, too. I'm always mindful that I need to be respectful of the fact that half the teachers are not Christian. I don't want to force-feed them anything, but I want to reflect the honesty & joy of the Biblical faith. I think everyone liked the song though, because it has a catchy refrain:
The rains came down and the floods came UP; the rains came down and the floods came UP; the rains came down and the floods came UP and the house on the sand went SPLAT!
Guns
As I walked out the door at about 4:30 this afternoon, I came out of the school and was shocked to see three police officers in brown uniforms, one of whom had his gun drawn, pointing at the door of the apartment complex directly across from the school. I had happened to take a picture just a minute before hand, and if you look closely, you can see one of the officers in the left bottom of the photo (although I hadn't noticed them at the time). There were children in the school and in the schoolyard, and no effort had been made to cordon off the area. It was weird.
"Everyone then who hears these words of mind and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it didnot fall, bcause it had been founded on rock." -- Jesus, quoted in Matthew 7
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