Piggley's Adventure in Hong Kong: Day 2

Day 2:
Well, good morning everyone!
I’m so glad that you are all doing so well in Kilvemnon! Mrs. Pimm texted myself and Ms. O’ Connell to let me know all of your news!
Today was the first day of the Forum. We got up early for breakfast at 8am and met some of the other teachers in the Ballroom. Lots of the teachers had questions about my lovely uniform and especially what ‘Scoil Mhuire, Kilvemnon’ means in English. I told them that ‘Scoil’ is school, ‘Mhuire’ is Mary and Kilvemnon’ translates as Cill (Church) of Mheamnain (who was a local saint).

Today we decided to visit the Hong Museum of History. We all met in the Foyer of the hotel at 11am. Here you can see me getting ready to leave.



This is a photo of the Irish and Northern Irish contingent, before we left. Can you see what Ms. O’ Connell has in her hands? Yes, that’s right! It was raining really heavily today! Even though the temperature was 22 degrees today the rain fell from 10am till 1pm. Once it stopped everything dried up very quickly. Can you check out the weather forecast for me for tomorrow? It’s on http://www.hko.gov.hk/wxinfo/currwx/fnd.htm



We got a taxi to the Hong Kong Museum of History. (http://hk.history.museum )
It cost me 24 Hong Kong Dollars. Could someone email me and tell me how much that is in euro? Ms. O’ Connell had run out of money so I had to raid my ‘piggy bank’!!!

I was so excited being in the museum. The first exhibition was on the Natural Environment in Hong Kong 6,000 years ago. Imagine my surprise when I saw one of my ancestors there!



Who will be first to email with my ancestor’s name?

Next we saw a Prehistoric Hong Kong. There have been lots of archaeological digs in Hong Kong and archaeologists can tell that people lived here during the Neolithic period. I know the Senior Room can tell Mrs. Pimm’s class what Neo and Lithic means. Look at this, the Neolithic people carved in stone at Big Wave Bay. Isn’t it very like Newgrange in Co. Meath?



Here you can see people building a fire. (I hope pork’s not on the menu!!!)



People who lived in South China from prehistoric times were called the Nanyue people.
The people who lived there were very clever and they made lots of pottery. Here you can see a clay model of one of their houses, complete with pig sty at the back. Pigs are so important in Hong Kong and China. We are so important that last year (2007) was the ‘Year of the Pig’.
Find out what year you were born in on http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/0502/



I thought you might to be interested to see this. It is a Bleriot monoplane. It was flown here in 1912. As you can see it only has one wing on each side of the fuselage. I know that you can all remember the name of an aeroplane with two wings on each side?
Read all about aviation in Hong Kong here. http://www.aircadets.org.hk/download/manual/ah_hk.html



This was a typical school in the 1960s in Hong Kong. Don’t the desks look like ours? The lids lift up on these ones and can you imagine, this classroom was outside, on the roof of a building. I think it might be a bit windy during the winter for us in Kilvemnon, wouldn’t it?!!





I was so tired when I came back to the hotel that took a little rest in my room while Ms. O’ Connell went to the evening reception. Don’t worry though, I wasn’t lonely. I rang Ferny and Dannan in the school and told them about my adventures.



I’ll talk to you all tomorrow!
Oink!!
Piggley.