Category: 2.1 Island Waldorf School Hong Kong
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Diary, Dramatized by AI
My colleague Flora shared that she would ask AI to tell stories about her own life. It’s like a diary on steroids. She feeds it random notes about life events and asks it to turn them into an exciting story. She says it’s fantastic because the writing helps her appreciate her own life more. I…
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Class of 2025 Graduation
Jing has graduated. The school survived 8 years. nor cried so hard with Maggie. And I stood on the side, witnessing everything. It’s emotional, magical, and hard. I feel lonely and anti-climatic. If every graduation is going to feel like this damn this job is going to be hard. The bad news is, these feelings…
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Fundraising Concert 2025
We just finished the fundraising concert for the school. The school is in a precarious position. Our lease is ending and we are looking for a place. Our 2nd graduating class is leaving the school soon. The team is close to fully formed, and the founders are transitioning into a new way of working. There’s…
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Island Waldorf School’s 1st Graduation
Last Friday, 28th of June, 2024, was our school first graduation. 7 kids finished their 8th year at our school. I became emotional as the graduation ceremony began. At that moment, I couldn’t process why I was shaken. It’s probably was a combination of realizing these children would no longer be in our school after…
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Understanding Comics
I finished the book “Understanding Comics” by Scott McCloud. It was written in the mid 90s. I already miss the book. The author helped me understand why I felt the way I felt while reading comics- how time transpired, how emotions manifested, how actions were imagined …. He also contrasted the comics between the east…
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Last Month of the 💩2020 – A Pledge to Do Good
This is it. The final month of 2020. I won’t waste time bitching about it. We have been bitching about it every day for the last 335 days. What can we do in the last 30 days to feel less useless? Do the work and find one cause that you feel good giving back to.…
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Become an Educator
“In such uncertain times, does it still make sense for me to continue my “career”?” “What are the most direct ways for me to make a difference in today’s chaotic world?” “How should I take my first step?” These were the most common questions applicants to the [Island Waldorf Teacher Training Program] asked themselves. Like…
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🙇🏻♂️ Smithfield; 👋🏾 QRW
Today is the last day of school. It’s also the last day Island Waldorf School of Hong Kong will call this little location home. Everything started with the Highgate House School Hong Kong, a Waldorf kindergarten. It was so different that two parents could not resist diving very deep into it. They read books, took teacher…
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“The Education System is Broken”: A parent’s cop out.
Which one am I? A parent who wants to figure out how to educate his kids, or one who wants to outsource education of his kids? What exactly am I asking for? My kids will be happy if I send them to a school, or my kids will be happy if I work together with…
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9 Random Things in 2017.
Something about us, from homemade soda to being a fake-rebel. Source: touchofmodern.com FIZZY WATER The best thing we have bought, has to be the DrinkMate (by a company from Ann Arbor). Nothing beats making your own soda water at home. I had to buy the machine from Taiwan, then the co2 canister from MongKok. It…