Should Milk really cost this much?

So I had this talk with my sister on the phone last week - about the price of milk. Here it goes:

1 liter of milk in Sweden cost 8.90 SEK which is USD $1.27
1 liter of milk in Norway cost 19 NOK which is USD $3.36
1 liter of milk in Hong Kong is 29.90 HKD which is USD $3.86.

That means, that if I would buy 1 gallon of milk in Hong Kong - it would cost me $15.44 USD.

I do not understand why the price is so high in Norway - they have lots of cows there. In Hong Kong, there are no cows. The milk comes from the cows in Australia......so there is an added shipping cost.

Milk should not cost this much - but some places in the world it does. I am not sure if humans should really drink cow milk anyway. Most "health freaks" say it is not good for us. Anyhow - most of my recipes have milk in them, so I continue to pay "to much" for milk.

Moo

A Proud Parent Moment

As Mattias was practicing with his new soccer team last Thursday, I was so proud of him. He tried out for the Tai Tam Tigers 9-10 year-olds Soccer team . There were 35-40 kids trying out, 9 players returning from last year, and they were looking to fill 7 spots. The coaches son was one of the 7 so he does not count - of course he made it. Mattias got one of the sought-after 6 spots on the team. This was a drilling try-out experience. The first try-out consisted of 2 hours of dribbling skills - timed! Yes - they were actually using stop-watches and writing down the numbers. They had to do 60 toe-taps in 30 seconds, all kinds of other dribbling skills. It was pretty serious. Even Henrik, the seasoned soccer player he is, said he has never experienced such a serious try-out ever. Completely over done - if you ask us. Hello - they are only 9.....

They had 3 of these two-hour tryout sessions over a 3 week period - constantly throwing new in-sane dribbling activities at them. It was a happy moment when he got the "congratulations" message.

I know that I am bragging - I just had to get it out of my system :). He is enjoying playing and having so much fun - and so are we.

A really proud "Soccer Mom".

International Peace Day!

Hope peace finds you as we celebrate an International Peace Day on September 21. Visit the link if you wonder what that means..... :)

http://www.internationaldayofpeace.org/

Peace to you all.

Some funny Chinglish - from Henrik

Enjoy.

Henrik in Delhi - India

Henrik is in India this week and he is very intrigued with the way things are there. It is like mixing big city, with countryside, with farming - all in one place. Quite fascinating. Enjoy some of his pictures from lunch on Monday.

Virtual School - please never again.....

Both Upper and Lower Primary school has been closed for a week and we have had the privilege of having "virtual school"........ It goes like this: each teacher, in every subject, writes down homework that the students are supposed to be doing at home every day. It includes, Chinese, PE, Music, Math, Reading and Writing. It has not been a pleasant experience. I know for certain now - I will never do home school. :)

School reopens tomorrow :) What a great day it will be. I actually think the kids are as excited to get back to their normal teachers, and not their freaky mom.....(that hates homework anyway...)

Hope you are all well. Went to a beach yesterday after church. It was WONDERFUL.

School closed

Just have a couple of minutes before I get Heidi from the school bus. HKIS middle school is closed for a week due to more than 106 students home sick, most of them with H1N1 Swineflu. We have to take our children's temperature every day, record it, sign it and return it to school every day. If you have a temp higher than 37.5 you are not welcome to school. I am impressed with Hong Kong Governments way of dealing with all this.
Gotta go and get my princess.