A gloomy Monday morning today and I had a tour scheduled with Tutor Time at their Dorset Crescent campus. They also have another campus in proximity at Suffolk, but they do not have the summer program there. I met Mandy Wong who is in charge of admission and tour. She is a very lovely lady. She explained the yearly schedule and curriculum and summer program.
The school is sparkly clean. I have never seen such a clean school environment in my life. It is almost intoxicating how much disinfectant they maybe be using and mirroring the clean metro of Hong Kong.
Tutor Time summer program is pricey. I was calculating with conversion to USD is about USD 14.50 an hour. In the States at an expensive school my kiddies go to that is preschool and day care from 7:30am to 6:30pm is about USD 50. And at Tutor Time is only 3 hours from 9 to noon. No wonder people would open school left and right here because first of all it is profitable and second of all especially catering to a niche market with endless clients.
The admission fee per child is HKD 600. And the summer program K1 and K2 are HKD 6,800 a pop and with 10% discount for the second kid's tuition. My total fee is HKD 14,120 = USD 1,800 for two kiddies in a 4 weeks summer program, 3 hours a day from Monday to Friday starting July 25th to August 19th.
After visiting the school, I walked around to familiarize myself with the street in that area. I also went to Taste to shop for food and other stuff. Thank goodness for google maps on iphone! And, I finally figured out my mini bus route number 29 b! It is just all too silly, but I am thrilled to figure out those little things to get around town. Now I got to figure out how to get the kiddies to school. Maybe a taxi ride would be faster than the mini bus.
C and P came out to visit us. They rented a car and a driver to drive them around town for house hunting so JP and I tagged long. We stopped by to grab some lunch at Tasty Congee and Noodle Wantun shop in Happy Valley shop: 21 king Kwong Street, Happy Valley (metor exit Time Square according to my dad). We met our parents' old friend what a coincidence?! It is not surprising at all to run into people you know in Hong Kong day in and day out.
They also have another location at Hung Hom shop: Shop 111, 1/F, Whampoa Gourmet Place, Wonderful Worlds of Whampoa, Hung Hom.
3 hours of house hunting looking at 12 apartments old and new in Hong Kong Island is a fleet. I will not suggest house hunting during the summer. It is very daunting task unless you want to loose some weight.
Some apartments complex we visited:
Jolly villa 8, 23f
Gardenview
Ronsdale
Ming Mun
Comparing Kowloon side to Hong Kong side is the school. There are better schools catered to the expats.
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