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School is somwhat intense for me but i am managing. My Uncle Steve is coming to visit this weekend!!! I am taking the following classes: ( HL=higer level=more emphisis, more advanced, like AP classes in the USA... SL=standard level) Bio HL, English HL, Geography HL, Art HL, Math SL, Chinese Studies SL (some history, geography, philosephy etc), and mid level Spanish (very difficult for me).

We spend alot of time doing Quan Cai (extra curricular activities) ; mine are: Latin Dance, Football (soccer), english tutoring, and coral monotoring. Coral monotoring is our scuba diving team. We have been training in swimming pools and will do our first openwater dive this sunday. Coral momotoring takes alot of time and effort (on sunday we will get up at 7am, and won't be done until 7pm) but it is very fun.

We have alot of very interesting informal discusion here, but every week we are having a gathering to discuss politacal issues in more depth. Last week was the Israeli- Palistinian conflict, this week was Chinese-Japanese relations.

It is very amazing how many cultures one can be interacting with at once here. Yesterday i did a 24 hour fast for a jewish holiday. In the cafiteria I often find myself engulfed on either side by cantonese and spanish, or some other combanation of languages. There is always o conversation going on about some political happening in some one's home country. My english is getting horrible! I am adapting to the esl environment, my accent changes with every day and I can't spell for life of me.

One thing you all might want to know is the demograpy of LPC: of 250 students it's about 45% hong kongese, other than that there are no more than 6 people from a given country.

I hope to have more photos on here soon

Check out http://www.lpcuwc.edu.hk/ to seee more about the school (including photos)

My room is in the building This is a view from the academic
on the left, top floor (good building (that is the pool where we
view) practice diving)