香港南區站到站：田灣的英語遊戲小組和大型遊戲室，$100/3小時（1名兒童+1名成人）
(Scroll down for English) 這是我(蕃薯媽媽)在星期六下午在床上準備繪製香港仔-田灣的地圖。週六我很少有獨處的時間！幾天前，我們收到教子在將軍澳舉辦的生日派對邀請。但由於我已經計劃在堅尼地城與一位前同學慶祝我拿到博士學位，併計劃晚上在尖沙咀觀看佛蘭明高(Flamenco)表演，我覺得時間太倉卒所以便放棄出席了。我在工作上已經很疲憊啦！引用《魔戒》中比爾博巴金斯的話：
“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
"我感覺自己很瘦，有點繃緊，就像塗了太多麵包的黃油一樣"
請點擊引用並觀看 YouTube...並查看他建議的解決方案（儘管我不想做同樣的事情）！於是蕃薯爸爸帶著孩子們去了將軍澳，而我則在床上溫暖的繭中寫下了這段話：
讓我們從地圖上最遠的地方開始……您可能已經看到我發布了有關帕梅拉·佩克探索空間(Pamela Peck Discovery Space)的帖子，當我告訴我所有的媽媽朋友或自己發現它時，他們都很喜歡！他們有英語遊戲小組（相當昂貴，但也很好而且時間長！），我帶 大蕃薯去了，他真的很喜歡。最近，小蕃薯也參加了一次免費試堂。老師們都很可愛。非常友好和健談（我聽說他們甚至在公共遊戲室活動期間也在附近！可能是因為它在耀中開辦的師範學院內）
你已經聽說過優點了，現在說說缺點（這就是為什麼我從未設法帶孩子們參加任何公開時段！）
1. 名額上線後需盡快預訂
2. 時間段是固定的（上午/下午）…對我們來說，因為上午的課程從上午9 點開始，所以我們去的時候會有壓力，我們不是早起的人嘛.........但下午的課程與他們的午餐時間小睡重疊，並在4 點結束，所以對我們來說又開始得太早，結束也太早
3. 如果你有2個孩子的話（香港很多地方都是這樣），其實並不便宜，這就是為什麼我最終把他們分開帶去的原因。
4. 遊戲小組很貴（所以我的朋友都沒有參加）...但是他們有順便過來&因為這是一個很長的遊戲小組，如果按小時收費，那麼還不錯...
以下是一些照片：
「準備好當大哥了！（我還沒懷孕……不過兩個月後就會懷孕了！）”
Hong Kong Stop by Stop, Southern district: English playgroup & big playroom in Tin Wan, $100 for 3 hours (1 kid + 1 adult)
This is me getting all ready to draw an Aberdeen-Tin Wan map in bed on a Saturday afternoon. It is VERY RARE that I would have any time alone on a Saturday! A few days before, we got an invite to our godson’s birthday party in Tseung Kwan O. But since I already had lunch plans to celebrate my PhD with an ex-classmate in Kennedy town and a flamenco show in TST at night, I felt it would be stretching myself too thin. I’m already stretched quite thin at work! To quote Bilbo Baggins in Lord of the Rings:
“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
Do click on the quote & watch the youtube... and see what he suggests as the solution (though I am not tempted to do the same)!
So Baba took the kids to TKO, while I produced this from the warm cocoon of my bed:
Let’s start from one of the furthest things in the map…… You may have seen me post about Pamela Peck Discovery Space which all my mum friends loved when I told them about it or discovered it for themselves! They have English playgroup (quite expensive, but also nice and long!), which I took R to and he really enjoyed. It recently took X to a free taster session too. The teachers are lovely. Very friendly and chatty (I’ve heard they’re even around during public playroom sessions! Probably because it’s inside a teachers college run by Yew Chung)
Now you’ve heard about the pros, now for cons (which is why I have never managed to bring the kids to any of the public sessions)
1. You need to book soon after the slots are released online
2. Time slot is set (morning/afternoon)… so for us, because morning session starts 9am, it would be stressful for us to go as we are not morning people, but the afternoon session overlaps with their lunchtime naps and finishes at 4, so it starts too early & ends too early for us
3. It’s actually not that cheap if you have 2 kids (like many places in HK), which is why I ended up bringing them separately.
4. Playgroup is expensive (so none of my friends joined it)… but they have drop-in & since it is a long playgroup, if hourly rate, then it’s not too bad…
Here are some photos:
"Getting ready to be a big bro! (I wasn't pregnant yet... but would be in 2 months!)"
