"Last school holidays, I took my daughter to Hong Kong, my birthplace and home for the first eight years of my life. I had taken her plenty of times before, but every visit had been fleeting. Accommodation is expensive, so we usually stay just enough to share a meal or two with close family. The reason for an extended stay came when my grandfather died last year. My grandmother had just lost her husband of seven decades, and as she is in her 90s herself,"
"I felt an urge to spend as much time as I could with her and an even greater urge for my nearly seven-year-old daughter to know her. So I decided to take the school holidays off work and take my daughter to stay in in the spare bedroom of my grandmother's small apartment. While I knew two weeks wasn't that long, it was all we had. I started to plan play dates with my cousins' children and activities for my daughter, such as Cantonese classes."
After a grandfather's death, a parent took her nearly seven-year-old daughter to Hong Kong to spend two weeks with a grandmother in her 90s. They slept in the grandmother's spare bedroom and planned children's activities, Cantonese classes, and cousin play dates. Initial doubts arose because of expensive accommodation, lack of programs, unresponsive cousins, typhoon season and the daughter's disappointment about no hotel minibar. The visit settled into a gentle routine: breakfasts with the grandmother, swims, lunches, street outings, ferry rides and buying gifts. Cousins organized last-minute play dates, and the children finally met their cousins.
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