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Careful With Your Eyes

My roommate told me that she was admitted into the Hong Kong Eye Hospitial today. Here situtation seems serious which is terrible news. She is such a good person and I feel it has been a bit unfair for her. This is a big wakeup call for me as well. We live in a society where most people don't even consider the dangers to their eyes when they put on or take off their contacts. I've heard of a number of problems with females in general related to contacts. I personally feel that maybe the girls I know tend to like to wear contacts more than guys, and they wear them for longer periods of time. The did not look good when I went to the doctor's office with my roommate.

Work went well except for an incident with one of my classes. I have these two students (usually three actually) Michael and Cynthia today. Both are fairly smart like the rest of the children that come to our school. I've seen it time and time again with the boys, they just tend to be a lot more hyper at that young age. I don't know what it is. Michael is no exception he generally can not sit still and likes to run into me making fighting or attacking noises. What happened today was just before class they were in the other room. Michael had his own markers and both of the children used them to draw on the white board. They did wipe off as expected. Generally in my new found role as an educator I think that most incidents I can not just let slip by. It isn't my place to punish other people's children, but I generally let them know if I find their actions are "bad". I caught them talking about it hidden in the washroom, at that point in time I was unaware that the marker on the board was permant. They had refused to say anything but it was clear that something was awry. Afterwards when we actually had class, Cynthia asked to take a Readership branded pencil and I agreed. I had not known that she was involved in the incident and thought it was only Michael. I mentioned to Michael that there would be no reward for his actions today and he felt it was unfair and exploded into this irrational fit of emotional behaviour. Michael is a well off child. I have a feeling he gets his way often at home. He did something wrong and I really didn't care to support his emotional outbursts. Phoebe and Phyillis came in to try to deal with him and afterwards he rejoined our class. They need to treat him well because it is a business. I just hope Michael learned something because I'm more worried about the end result.

I was hanging around Causeway Bay for Ada to get home from school and headed back to one of the t-shirt shops behind Sogo to pick up a few more t-shirts. I had sent most of my t-shirts home with Ivan to give to my brother. When Ada got back from class we headed over to some place in the area that served pretty good fish balls and noodles. They seemed a little fishy but overall the MSG soup base covered it up pretty well. I think it only cost lke $11 HKD. Something pretty cheap. We went to try the McDonald sundaes afterwards. I got the mango and she choose the red bean. The mango seemed really fake, but it was sugary and sweet. The red bean seemed more original and tasted better in both our opinions.

I had invited her over to cook tomorrow so we went to Wellcome to shop for more food. Ada and I are pretty interesting in the supermarkets, we can walk around like it is some department store looking at various items. I'm getting pretty low in cash so I need to plan out how I will survive in the weeks ahead. There are signs that the relationship at work is healing, and I have a notice that the immigration office recieved my application so things seem to be going well. The worst of the news revolves around my roommate.

posted by Tempest7 @ 00:00