Hapifiou

They are very special for me. They come from the family house we have in France near St Emilion and its great wine.

It's a very old type of Roses which, when they grow, start by the pink coulour then, when opening, turn orange and yellow. I like this picture with the Prune tree behind and the blue sky. It is typically the summer light in Bordeaux. Not that I miss it but I really like it ;-)

This is Hong Kong. A very special place where people stay a couple of years then move again.
The problem is that as we do not have family here, we create some very strong relationships with people we like.
That's what happened with Rachel! I met her maybe 3 months ago but I think it was a real "coup de foudre" as the first one I hade with my little marmotte ;-)
After 5 years in Hong Kong, Rachel decided to move to Holland!!! I Know I know, strange choice but why not?
So saturday, she organised her orange farewell (Deutsch Flag Colour) and we organised for her a surprise!!!
I spent a great time with funny people for so many countries but as "Cindarella", I had to leave at midnight because of my last Ferry!!!!
Crazy Hong Kong!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really excited by my first session of Dragon Boat, I woke up on saturday a little bit worried by the bad weather but as our Captain did not send any cancellation message.... I was expecting the best!
We arrived in Stanley with a storm, heavy rain and wind but it was ok!!!!! Don't forget we are the Lamma Team!!!!
After the briefing, each of us took place in the boat and we started to listen the safety instructions but you know, as when you fly, you always think that you will never have to use them...
And we started paddling and paddling.. We passed an other dragon boat with guys teasing us because we were doing it seriously ;-)
But, as we tried to go back to the beach because too many waves and it could be dangerous, 2 or 3 waves came in the boat filling it!!!!
Then.........We heard our captain shouting: "Girls we sank!!!!" Get out of the boat!!!!
What???? Freezing water, rain, wind, winter clothes on, shoes and bla bla bla...........
Breathless I think I had 15 seconds of little anxious then I reminded the safety instructions and especially to check if my partner was ok!!!! Now I promise, I will give more attention to them ;-)

The problem is that we spent 30 minutes in the freezing water trying to swin and push our boat, pulled by another Dragon Boat!!! So we started to sing to try to keep us warm... Even if I was frozen, I had a great time because I think we have shared something special on saturday... and as I told our Captain, I don't think she could have organised a greater team building to start the season ;-) Maybe I should propose it to my clients....

OK. some of my new friends complained about the fact that my blog is in french sooooooo from today, I promise I will write some posts in english. It's good for me to improve it but pllllllleeeeaaaasssseee be lenient with me....
But I will keep my french post also because I love playing with words and I am very very frustrated to not be able to do it with english......