It's definitely more challenging bringing adults overseas. The kind of demands they make is sometimes head-shakingly unfathomable. While majority behaved well most of the time, there were occasions when me and co-lead fantasized holding a few by their collars and giving them some good, hard, long shakes. Our blood pressures must have risen a few notches during the past 11 days in UK.
All said, Lincoln is a quaint, self-equipped town. London, in comparison, is almost as I remembered 12 yrs ago - cold, dark and gloomy, only busier, more touristy and less expensive now. There are many top musuems to visit and an amazing range of shops to satisfy the shopaholic. I had the good fortune of visiting the British Museum and the National Gallery, both of which are great, but I think I prefer New York's Metropolitan Musuem and Berlin's Pergamon Musuem.
Temperature had been near freezing, hovering between 0 and 5 deg everyday. It's chilly but at least that beats hot and sticky. Starting with bus journeys and school attachments at 7.30am and finishing with night debriefs that end around 9.30pm, it's been almost 2 wks of solid work in foreign land.
I am grateful for the warm hospitality and kind assistance rendered by our various partners and suppliers - hotels, academies, transport companies etc, and I'd remember the omnipresent dry British humor for sure. For now, it's back to nursing the cough...
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welcome back.
trust you to post food pictures. bwahahahahaha.
btw, are u sure it's ok to post discernible picts of ur colleagues? they don't really have a choice to 'remove' themselves from ur internet blog leh. sorry to be kaypoh n lor sor, but i'm just v influenced by german privacy laws (which i tend to favour ;->).
oh erh, just afraid that this ease of uploading stuff might put you into some unforeseen hassle. a lot of suing going around these days. plus ur ministry has been boiling in hot soups lately. better to be safe.
Hey fish, thanks for concern. Actually, I'm always quite aware of the limits lah, had posted a pic where only colleagues' backs are shown mah, plus only described in general and didn't go into specific details of who and how did what to raise our bld pressures. =P But in any case, I've decided to take the not-so-discernible pic down afterall. =) Have just gone to see the doc after the 3 day old cough & fever refused to go away. Will write again when well.
did you get MC?
ur photos all very high res lah. click on that particular pic can see those who're facing the cam. nowadays, dun even need details n ppl (or their laywers) can claim correlation betw the pic and the indirect text. haiz.
and urs is not an anonymous blog some more... got ur full face wedding pix. if ppl wanna tekan u, very easy.
did you hear about that ex-*** scholar from our alma mater while u were over there? sad case. come back got emergency meeting or not?
Yups, was given 5 different types of medicine plus mc. Powerful pills that knocked me out quite solid. =P But good that it's so, coz I hv to perform bridesmaid and emcee duty today. Write u again, ciaos!
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