Happy Chinese New Year Eve!
We are starting the new year with an extended space - An Art Gallery cum storage space.
There is high interest generated in the KonMarie bandwagon and I think it isn't the simple the act of packing. In the videos, Marie Kondo always emphasize on the importance of packing as a family. Each family member are encouraged to take responsibility for the well-being of the house. In practice, it is usually the woman who does the domestic chores and keeping everything together. Many of my students have domestic help at home, even with affordable, outsourced help, children should learn basic responsibility of helping out in the household. After all, it is up to the family members to make their house their home.
When all the burdens fall on one person in the family, relationship is easily strained. There is no need to watch all the episodes to also be aware that cheap fashion caused neurological pleasure and that highlighted an issue of consumerism.
Indeed, packing the art rooms IS a daunting task (not to mention now that we have 3!) but I'm thankful that many people were involved to make this possible. The original occupants - the language teachers had to vacate the space and move their belongings to another classroom before some renovation can take place. A substantial amount of movement to pack and unpack so we had to do them over a few months. The bulk of the work were completed during the school holidays. The aunties and uncles helped to make way by shifting all the desks and chairs elsewhere. Finally, arrangement had to be made with contractors to put up new lighting and shelves.
The beneficiary of the new space are the lucky students and their artworks would invade the new place soon.
We are starting the new year with an extended space - An Art Gallery cum storage space.
There is high interest generated in the KonMarie bandwagon and I think it isn't the simple the act of packing. In the videos, Marie Kondo always emphasize on the importance of packing as a family. Each family member are encouraged to take responsibility for the well-being of the house. In practice, it is usually the woman who does the domestic chores and keeping everything together. Many of my students have domestic help at home, even with affordable, outsourced help, children should learn basic responsibility of helping out in the household. After all, it is up to the family members to make their house their home.
When all the burdens fall on one person in the family, relationship is easily strained. There is no need to watch all the episodes to also be aware that cheap fashion caused neurological pleasure and that highlighted an issue of consumerism.
Indeed, packing the art rooms IS a daunting task (not to mention now that we have 3!) but I'm thankful that many people were involved to make this possible. The original occupants - the language teachers had to vacate the space and move their belongings to another classroom before some renovation can take place. A substantial amount of movement to pack and unpack so we had to do them over a few months. The bulk of the work were completed during the school holidays. The aunties and uncles helped to make way by shifting all the desks and chairs elsewhere. Finally, arrangement had to be made with contractors to put up new lighting and shelves.
The beneficiary of the new space are the lucky students and their artworks would invade the new place soon.
