The St John’s First Aid Course is well under way on during Friday’s extra mural periods for a group of NIHS students who are enthusiastically asking questions, practicing bandaging, doing their primary survey and putting each other into the recovery position. They have already looked at the principals of first aid, the primary and secondary survey, looking for danger to themselves, identifying response in the casualty, opening the airway, observing for signs of breathing and circulation, looking for signs of injury, putting a casualty in the recovery position, fractures, bleeding wounds, suspected heart attack, bandaging and splinting.  Can I remind all students that they need to review their notes and read their hand books after lessons and are welcome to come and see me any break or lunch time to practice or ask questions.

The Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month: the equivalent of the first of January in the Solar Calendar. Chunjie tradionally called danian or guonian is the most important and popular festival to the Chinese community across the world. During Chunjie, northern Chinese eat jiaozi (dumpling) and southern Chinese eat niangao (sweetcake) to celebrate the festival. Words of blessing are written on red paper, called Chunlian and pasted on the door for good luck. Firecrackers are lit to dispel bad luck.