First Day of HKU Taster

Today is the first day of HKU Taster.  This programme is held by Hong Kong University specially for students studying in Secondary School.  I joined the programme on Uncle Kwan’s recommendation.  It will last for two days, from 8th April to 9th April.

I, as a fairly punctual person, arrived Hong Kong University (HKU) twenty minutes before the scheduled time.  The concentration point is in Happy Park.  The night before 8th April, I asked my father:” You are a graduate of HKU, right ?  Do you know where Happy Park is ?”  He replied that he had never heard of it.  I guessed it might be a new-built area.  It spent me fifteen minutes to find the place.  A dark and tiny empty place it locates.  I finally discover Happy Park when it was surrounded by crowd  eight-thirty.

My “Joma” was Amina (Hui), a nice and friendly Year 1 student studying Account and Finance in HKU.  People call their female group leader as “Joma” which stands for the mother of the group in Chinese.  The two other male group leaders was Darren (Chong) and Lawrence (Yu).  Both Darren’s appearance and the way he talk looked nearly the same with my primary school schoolmate Hui Yi Lok.  Lawrence was a handsome 23-year-old student who was talkative and sociable.  He claimed he was now studying HKU and had studied HKUST, the university my elder brother was studying in.

Amina (the one who hold the camera)

Darren (Middle)

Lawrence (right)

I was distributed to Group B1.  Our group played an ice-breaking game when we were waiting the others who are late.  We stood in circle.  The first person says his name.  The second person repeats the first person’s name and says his name.  The third person repeats the first and second person’s name and says his own name.  It keeps looping until the last person.

Using an equation-like formula to describe:

Let A,B,C,D,E be the first, second, third, fourth and fifth person respectively.
A → A + B → A + B + C → A + B + C + D → A + B + C + D + E …

The game was really challenging especially when there was a total of twenty people (17 group mates and 3 group leaders) in the group.
At ten, a lecture was given by the Faculty of Education on the subject of Exercise and Health.  The speaker, an assistant professor in the Faculty, introduced his subject and the future of it.
We had our lunch on a Chinese round table in the canteen.  The canteen located in the medical campus which was oppiste to Queen Mary Hospital.

Chinese food lunch

After lunch, we visited the Nursing Clinical Skills Training Centre, a subject for nursing.  There was a 1:1 ratio hospital model where everything simulated the realistic hospital.  There was a simulation of pregnant woman’s belly.  I was asked to find out whether the baby faced down or stood straight.  I guess it faced down as I feel a solid piece of thing when I press the lower part of the mother’s belly.

Model of the a pregnant mother’s belly.

An hour later, the workshop ended.  That was the end of the day.

The above passage simulates my idea in 8th April.  But actually it is written 2 days after the first day, 10th April (Fri).