Piggley's Adventure in Hong Kong: Day 3

Day 3:
Good morning everyone! It has been such an interesting day today and I have met so many new friends! I am writing this while all of you are just going to bed! Hong Kong is 8 hours ahead of Kilvemnon. What time is it in Hong Kong now?

This morning we all met our new project groups. We will be working with schools from Spain, France, Thailand and Northern Ireland on a project before Christmas. We will be asking you all to design a blog where all of the project work will be kept. I’m sure after all of your work on this one you will all have lots of ideas on how to design it when I get home.
Here you can see the teachers from our Partner schools in Spain, France and Thailand getting to know me.



We did a tour of old and new Hong Kong today. We visited a Dried Seafood Street (Des Voeux Road West) and Herbal Medicine Street (Ko Shing Street) in SheungWan. The Chinese use herbs and dreid fish as both foodstuffs and medicines.

Here you can see me looking at Ginseng. Can you find out what ginseng in used for? 5th and 6th class might email me on kilvemnon@yahoo.ie with the prices in for ginseng in euro.



This is shark fin. How and what is shark fin used for?



Next we went to Hollywood Road where we visited a Buddhist Temple called Man Mo Temple. Outside we saw this amazing building. What types of shapes can you see here?



This is me on the way in to the temple. What is the main religion in China?



This temple is a tribute to the God of Literature (Man) and the God of War (Mo). Ms. O’ Connell and I posed in front of burning incense. How is incense used in Buddhist worship? Can you see the paper in the middle of the coils? Can you guess what is written on them?




Afterwards our whole group took a photo together. Thanks to our guide Kenia who knew all about Chinese culture and medicine. Ms. O' Connell had a sore throat and she told her that the Chinese would boil parts of the star fish for two hours and then drink the soup to cure a sore throat!



Then we went for dinner. Can you name some traditional Chinese dishes? How many of you have eaten Chinese food before? What did you eat? Keep a class record of your findings so I can see when I come home.



Can you believe it? Here I am being interviewed on French television. Je m’appelle Piggley. J’habite a Kilvemnon en Irlande. (I am so lucky that Perrine taught me French last year!)



Au revoir mes amis,
A demain!!
Piggley.


PS. Thanks for your emails with all of the answers to my questiosn from yesterday. You are all so clever!!