Mummies,
I’m back! Hong Kong was fun (apart from the first leg involving business) and I guess, Kelly was really hyped up about this trip. She was telling everyone in her school that she is going to Hong Kong and on Sunday, proudly announced to the whole class that she will be going to Hong Kong with mummy and daddy. She was an angel on the plane (it does helps to have roomier seat) and was so pleased with her hotel room in Mong Kok that we have to spend quite a deal convincing her to get out of the rooms. Drank lots of ‘pu’ soup and ate lots of rice and watermelon (it is everywhere!) and brought many Elmo themed bags, shirts, shoes and oh mine, really a Sesame Street haven over there!
Disneyland Hotel was nice and the food served in the club lounge was yummy. Kelly had fun with the nightly storytelling session but I doubt the storytellers had fun reading stories to her. On the first night, they were reading a book on Dumbo to her. They were trying to make small conversations and one of the questions popped up, ‘Does elephant flies?’. Kelly looked at the storyteller and said ‘Elephant don’t fly. They stomped. Only birds and butterflies flies’. So towards the end of the book, the storyteller said something like, ’look Dumbo can fly!’ Kelly was a uncontented and remarked firmly with a ’You are kidding. Elephant stomped, you understand?’ So ever since that night, the same storyteller will avoid asking too much questions for the remaining two nights sessions. Eventually, Kelly was still smitten by the storyteller with the generous amounts of stickers that she was given with…
Disneyland Park was eerhm disappointing to us but I guess, it was a happy experience for Kell but she does finds the Halloween decorations scary. She wasn’t comfortable with rides that have to go through dark tunnels and was certainly scared of the Mickey and Minnie Mouses mascots. I asked her why and she said ’Mickey and Minnie Mouses stayed in television. I am scared when they comes out of television’. Had a casual chat with her educator and PD today on the logic behind her answers but both assured me that it is okay and it is good that she is able to differentiate what is real and what is not.
She was back in school on Tuesday for Halloween cum Deepavali parties and I was told that she cried when she saw her teachers wearing those ghostly masks. Did any of your child experience such emotions? I find it weird cos none of us have exposed her to ghosts or things like this but her teacher feed backed that she cried and told the teacher to ’take down the masks cos I’m scared. Please go away’. Again, I was told that it could be natural phobia…
We were touched when she told us impromptu that she wanted to get some presents for her friends, teachers, grandma and ah gong and her imaginary friend, en en ge ge. So we brought her to the store and true enough, she picked up presents for her friends in school. Well, she did distributed it out to her friends on Tuesday and was happily promoting Hong Kong Disneyland. I bumped into two of her classmates’ mummies this evening and they asked me, ’Did Kelly went Disneyland?’ I said yes. They replied saying that their girls have been telling them they want to go Disneyland too because Qiqi said Disneyland is fun. Well, it does certainly confused things a little when Kell told her teachers that ’Mummy and Daddy is bringing me to Singapore Disneyland next week’… eerhm, our little coax to coax her to board the plane back…
Celeste, satisfied with this trip report or not? My official trip report is 15 pages long!
