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DSS Ireland Tour 2015, Day 4

3/17/2015

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A moment of the highly anticipated St Patrick's Day!
Our final day in Dublin happened to be the St Patrick's Day. This national festival looked equivalent to our Chinese New Year. But it seemed to have a stronger colouration and patriotic engagement from people. We were very excited to gear up to enjoy the parade starting close to noon.

We stopped by a local pub to wait for the parade to begin. This gave time for the different School Heads to share insightful managerial knowledge and reflect on the tour so far. Different topics were covered, including the different presentation styles of the universities we visited the day before. We concluded that passion and sense of belonging always make an important impression for a school introduction presentation and that school leaders are expected to be proactive and open-minded in search of overseas learning opportunities for their students.

We joined the heated crowd at the city centre as the parade started. With green clothing, we blended into the environment naturally. The layers of viewers at the sides of the pathways made it impossible for us to see the teams passing by clearly without some stretching and jumping. But it was a fantastic party all the same. What impressed me the most was the merging of multi-cultures and the strong sense of love to the Irish heritage. No matter where you're from, you wouldn't feel uncomfortable putting on sharp green merchandise for the event. The love of one's culture and country and the cancellation of individual differences are the spirits that youngsters from Hong Kong need to further develop to give a better future for our hometown. To our surprise, a group of Hong Kong students, from the City University of Hong Kong, who were enjoying their exchange period at Liverpool bumped into our selfies. But exactly why they could get here from Liverpool during term time in England was not fully explained!

For further cultural exposure, we attended a "Hurling" game final at Croke Park at 2:30 pm. This traditional Irish sport is the playing of a baseball-sized ball using foot, hand and a hurley (club). The game went very fast and that inevitably caught the attention of Mr Chu, our PE teacher, who will surely find ways to bring certain aspects of hurling back to school to wow our sporty children!

New visits to schools tomorrow. Still waiting for the sun to come out.

Dr H C Lee
Panel Chair
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Coyan Cheng
3/18/2015 01:30:16 pm

Mrs Lam, I like your green hair!
Dr Lee and Mr Chu, I like your green hats too.
St. Patrick's Day looks really fun. I want to join too :)

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Lancy
3/18/2015 06:43:23 pm

It's amazing to see everyone in the whole city, if not the whole country going GREEN. Even the visitors like us were so willing to comply and be part of the green. What's the magic? If we could have the same magic in the school...

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Dr H C Lee
3/19/2015 02:12:35 am

I must thank Ms Lancy Tam, head of Law Ting Pong Secondary School, for her engagement and inspiration during every of our conversations during the tour so far.

How to create such magic in class? Well, teachers are necessarily magicians. If we don't create the atmosphere, who else would do so?

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Matt
3/19/2015 04:27:06 pm

Agreed that teachers must take the lead to create the magic in class. But not every school is conducive to encouraging the creativity in the classroom setting. Tks to YW that allows and even mandates the atmosphere for the students to experience the magic :-)

Keith Kwok
3/26/2015 06:14:00 am

What is the true meaning of Saint Patrick's Day? And what do people usually do to celebrate? Also, I think hurling is too violent for us kids.

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Dr H C Lee
3/26/2015 04:40:06 pm

Like in Christmas, the colourful celebrations these days usually blind people from the true meaning and origin of the festival. The Day is to remember a great religious figure for Ireland. It's like a national day. People put on green clothing and watch parades. It gives me a very warm feeling even though I'm not Irish!

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Isaac Yan
3/30/2015 02:55:04 pm

So that's what saint patrick's day is about!

Isaac Yan
3/30/2015 02:53:59 pm

You guys look funny in green hats!

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