March 8th

We had yet another amazing day here, starting with the Heep Hong Society that provides early intervention services to children with physical and mental disabilities. Many of their students have autism and they have a wonderful way of providing learning opportunities for all of their students. They also have this really fun looking sensory integration room and, guess what? Compliments of Rotary!

We enjoyed more fellowship with Rotarians for lunch at the Rotary Club of Hong Kong, which just celebrated it's 80th anniversary.

After lunch, we went to the Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, which is quite well known here and has a very long history as well. They provide very inexpensive if not free care, including medical services, Chinese medicine and dental services. They also had schools for girls in the "olden days" when it was not commonplace unless you had a lot of money. They took us for a walk to the Kowloon Walled City. This was a place fought over between the British and Chinese for a while, until it became a very poor city, mostly of ill repute. Because of this, it was eventually demolished in the early 1990's and is now a park. We met a man in the park, who is locally well known for his ability to fold and tear paper into works of art. Our hosts asked him to create a souvenir for us of the Rotary symbol, which he amazingly did right before our very eyes! Please see the above photo. (I am new to this blogging thing and my picture ended up in the wrong place! Oops!)

We were also treated to the cake shop owned by one of the Rotarians. Many yummy samples here! We then had tea and more desserts at a restaurant common to the locals. We had egg custard tarts and "pineapple buns" which were a sweet roll with an even sweeter coating on top (and no pineapple by the way). More yumminess!

We proceeded on to our evening Rotary Club, the club of Kai Tak, which is there newest club, chartered only in November! Another group of very warm and welcoming people!

Thanks to all who made our day another spectacular one!