Homework has arrived, and with it projects. Ev is doing a unit on Explorers (I think, or something along those lines) and so had a mini project to go to some place that he'd not been to before, and describe it and why it was interesting - and then there was an optional section on maps which you could add on. Optional doesn't really move Ev (which is a pity, because I was keen to hide a lego-man in a tree, take the GPS co-ordinate, and then write a riddle to make a treasure map type challenge for him to lay down for his class-mates. He was having none of that, and I decided that I should probably try to grow up and not be doing this of my own accord - besides, no doubt his lazy-ass classmates would have been equally moved). I digress. So Ange suggested we go to a temple (called the
Fat Tong Man Tin Hau Temple,
Tai Miu for short, go figure) which is a short walk from the CWB club gates, and which Ev had not been to. Of course I have been there before (some or other project of Aiden's - teachers being about as lazy as students when it comes to doing new things - but man, I must have been there with my eyes closed). Two things that I discovered about the place this time, was that the first bit of it was built in 1266, (hey!?) and there is an inscription on a rock next to the temple which was done in 1274 - making it the oldest known writing in Hong Kong. Pretty cool. That's quite a chunk of history that. 1274 was the year of the birth of Robert the Bruce, and the death of Thomas Aquinas. It is also the origin of the Kamikaze - the divine wind - that helped the Japanese repel Kublai Kahn's warriors. Amazing. Above is where it is in Hong Kong.
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Ev at the top of the path that goes down to the temple - appropriately dressed in his Eiffel Tower t-shirt (which incidentally, was built six hundred and a few years later). |
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The Temple court-yard as it is today - Ev adding some dynamism to the photo. |
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The temple has its own public jetty - I liked this photo for the diagonal and the old Chinese boat in the background. Very South China Sea feel to this pic, for me. |
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Here is the temple from the end of the jetty; a dude fishing; Ev heading back at speed. |
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I convinced him to wear my running watch so that he could track where he'd been on a map - that's how far I could advance the whole map thing without it becoming an issue. Clearwater Bay Marina is in the bottom right of the pic. |
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