Community Garden Meeting!!

On Sunday we had the first meeting of the Tai Peng Community Garden. What a success!! Eleven people came: a university professor, a carpenter, a herpetologist (she studies frogs), a couple of teachers and one lady who works with special needs children (智能障礙).

I was so happy with this turnout because I was afraid only 2 or 3 people would come --- I had only posted the meeting agenda on the Lamma Community website earlier the same day. At 11:00 am I put up 5 posters advertising the garden meeting in Tai Peng and in Yung Shue Wan (榕樹灣). Anyway, I'm so excited that the garden has actually begun, because it will give my kids and I such a great place to grow flowers and vegetables and to make new friends.


There are other things to do in Tai Peng. There are quite a few French people who live here and regularly gather to play Pétanque (地掷球). I know they have a lot of fun playing because they make so much noise!! haha! (I don't mind ;-) Players throw metal balls and try to get them as close as they can to a small wooden ball that is thrown beforehand. One of these players also plays the saxophone, which is great to listen to on a warm spring night.

We can also hang out at the store, just drinking soda pop and meeting friends as they walk up from Yung Shue Wan. But I prefer more active things to do, like hiking in the hills or wandering down to the East Lamma Channel (東博寮海峽) to go fishing off the rocks. I really like these activities because I'm a nature lover, but I also like making friends and doing things together with my neighbors. I guess that's why the new garden make me feel so excited about the future. For me, it's just as much about friendship and community as it is about flowers and vegetables!