Beautiful Lancaster

I would like to share some beautiful and interesting sights of Lancaster. Thank you for the wonderful weather....

Thank you Pattersons

I would like to take this opportunity to thank my second host family, Stephen and Kathy Patterson for their warm hospitality for the past week. I had a lot of fun learning and discussing current affairs issues with them. I also had Easter Sunday dinner with their family and ate a alot of delicious food. The menu includes Turkey, Smoke Lamb, Corn, Sweet Potato, Mashed Potato and many more.



I wish you and your family well and hope we will keep in touch with one another in the future. Good Bye my Hi Tech host family.:)

Singapore School versus American School

On my tour to many Rotary Clubs presentations, the most frequent questions asked to me is " How is your education system in Singapore different from the US?" Well I would like to share them in this blog as to provide a better perspective on this issue.



Singapore being a tropical climate do not have 4 seasons thus we do not have long winter or summer breaks. In fact, our cirriculum in break down into 4 terms and each term consists of 10 weeks. The structure of our school year is as follows:

Term 1: 10 weeks
Holiday for 1 week in Mid March
Term 2: 10 weeks
Holiday for 4 weeks in June
Term 3: 10 weeks
Holiday for 1 week in Mid September
Term 4 : 10 weeks
Holday for six weeks from mid Nov to end Dec.

The cycle continues again every year.

In addition, what is interesting is that in Singapore and Malaysia, we celebrate teacher's day and children's day in . It is a school holiday and teachers and pupils are given a day to rest. We will have parties and students will bring gifts for teachers. Cool rite.

I think we must do the same in the STATES. Students should show appreciation to their teachers :) It is long time overdue.



On a seperate note, we teachers in Singapore and Malaysia will move from one class to another and the pupils will stay in the classrooms waiting for the teacher. In the States however, it is the other way around. They teachers will stay while the pupils move to the other classroom. We, Singapore and Malaysian teachers love this ideas as we have our own classroom and are able to decorate and "personalise" the classroom to meet our pupils' needs.

My Darling Vincent

Just want to show you guys, how "cute" my team leader Vincent is?

We love you "Tai Ko" or Big Brother.

Amish Culture

We had a chance to be up close and personal with the Amish Culture today. We visited farm, carpentry, school and store ran by the Amish. In the afternoon, we visited the Auto Auction. Thank you Jim and Carolyn for accompanying us the whole day!

trash and limo!

Here we are, on John's Lincoln Limo, going around town, visiting to the waste management company. (limo and trash, doesnt really sound well together, right?)

we had a wonderful time learning about waste disposal and waste energy is processed and of course, we got a really good smell what the american trash smells like.









p/s: riding on a limo is a whole new experience to us, the momentum and leather seats contribute a lot of sliding! but we did have a great time in the limo.

My Easter weekend in Lancaster!

I had a wonderful Easter Friday celebration in my host family Chip and Irene Kirchner house. Look here that's my Easter basket! Chip had a family dinner with his daughter and sons and 7 grand children and i am indeed honored to be invited to the eggs painting by the grand children and adults before fest started.. we painted closed to 2 dozens of eggs and it was fun it was like back to my childhood days..