From Treasure Island to the Plastic Beach.

First Sunday in Advent, so merry Christmas to all of you around the world and I hope you will have a nice and cosy day, inside or outside or whatever the weather allows you to, in your part of the world.
The Christmas month started for me on a beach, and compared to what I’ve heard about the weather in Europe, we have had the most fantastic weather period with average temperatures of 26 degrees and a clear blue Sky.
But back to that thing I mentioned with the beach. On the 1st of December I joined our year 6 team and went with them on a nature experience camp on Lantau Island.
The Camp is called “Treasure Island, and is managed by a group of young people from places like New Zealand, the US, Australia and the UK. They run this camp for students from Hong Kong and offers activities like water sports, hiking and trekking and rope courses. It is a tradition that our year 6 goes there every year in December, but this was the first time that I got to join them.
And what a nice experience it was, not only for the students, but for all of us who went there.
The venue at Pui O beach on the south side of Lantau Island is just amazing, and when the weather turns out like it did, it is nearly as being on holiday. Well apart from the 167 students, who are all around you, I mean. We all slept in tents 2 minutes from on of the incredible Lantau Style beaches, and most of the day and evenings were spent on or around this beach.
Back to the civilisation on Friday afternoon, I started to boot my self up to the visit to another beach on Friday evening. This time is was a visit to the Plastic Beach, and the guide to this was the band Gorillaz.
And what a visit this was. It was kind of a mixture of concert and going to the cinema. To every of the songs, there was a movie playing on a huge screen on the stage, over the band. So if you couldn’t see so much of the band on stage, there was enough to look at on the screens. But there was a band there I just have to say, and they did play real instruments, I believe.