2010-06-07

Our Presentation back in HK - 7 Jun 2010

GSE teammates all arrived Hong Kong safely on 4 June 2010.
The little incident was Joe's and Pauline's luggage were missed during transit in South Africa. They have to wait for 1-2 days, but luckily the airline sent the luggage directly to their home, they no need to carry +30 kgs heavy bags :-)

On the 7th of June, we have got a chance to do our 1st presentation in the Joint General Meeting of 6 rotary clubs. One of the rotary club is Joe's sponsoring club: Rotary Club of New Territories.

It was a wonderful arrangement that we were so thankful to district and involved rotary clubs.
They provided us a very nice venue to share our story in Brazil.

By the way, you can see from below picture that, our District Governor - Ada Cheng was ALWAYS supporting us !!!! You are the best !!! 



We kept sharing for over 1 hour, every picture and video that we brought to the audiences, they share our experience as well our friendship that built with all Brazilian friends and families. 

It is quite amazing to look at an overview about what we have gone through in 4 weeks GSE program:
Club Visits : 25
Presentation : 22
Vocational Visits :   34
Yes, we have done 34 vocational visits !!! unbelievable. Each of us was hosted by 6-7 families in Brazil.
Once again, this credit all goes to District 4420 - Rotarians, families and friends. 
You all are FANTASTIC !!







After our presentation, the Rotary Foundation Chairman - Kenneth Chow was very kind to announce that all GSE members are invited to be the member of Rotary Foundation Alumni Association. 
We have the honor to have District Governor Ada Cheng to recognize that with a pin.






In the end, we sincerely thank District Governor Ada Cheng, who built the connection with leaders in rotary District 4420 and made this GSE come true.



Reported by Joe

2010-06-05

Rotary Foundation Alumni Dinner

Just a day after the return from Brazil, Yolanda and Pauline attended the Rotary Foundation Alumni Dinner at Central. They shared their experience with alumni with excitement.

Yolanda has been nominated as the Treasurer for the Alumni Assoication.






2010-06-04

Safe Home - 4 Jun

We were safe home on 4 Jun after a 24 hour flight with one connection at JNB. The surprise for us when we were landed was...... three out of four of our check-in luggages were missed and we can only claimed one piece of check-in luggage that contained the Samba Costumes on our arrival. The luggages were returned a day later with a delivery to our home directly.





Here were all luggages we have on our arrival. Joe has only his hand baggage. Ha ha.... A special ending.


2010-06-02

Our Last Day in Sao Paulo - 2 Jun

This was the last day we were in Sao Paulo. We spent most of our time to be a tourist in the downtown area.

In the morning, we visited the Se Catherdal, the biggest catherdal in the downtown area. We walked through the old business district.


Then, Maria brought us to Liberdade and joined her mother to visit supermarkets and markets.

After a final round of shopping, we rushed back to Andrea's apartment to pack the Samba Dance Costomes that we planned to ship back to Hong Kong. Here, Joe and Joao were designing a cartoon box to fit the sets in it.

It is a day before the long weekend. The traffic to airport is terribly congested. Joao drove and took a short cut to our destination. Melissa met us in the airport to wave us goodbye for our midnight flight.


With all the sweet memories, we carried a full bag of friendship and valuable experience home.

2010-06-01

Joao's Birthday @ Dona Onca

Dona Onca is a classy restaurant in Sao Paulo. Dona means Lady, Onca is Leopard. The decoration and food of the restaurant is very special.

A painting with Hong Kong's night view and Dona Onca on Star Ferry.







Joe is preparing a special gift for Joao.
Ha ha ha....
Encore....
A special drink - Dona Onca Milk ---- a very strong liquor.




Daily Summary - 1 Jun

AM
Pauline: Museum of Brazilian Home
Joe: Maersk

PM
Football Museum
Museum of Art Sao Paulo (MASP)

Evening
Dinner Party for Joao's Birthday at Dona Onca

Museum of Art Sao Paulo (MASP)

Free Admission Day

Football Museum & Labour Congress


Museum of Brazillian Home