Day #7 - The world famous Hong Kong Rugby Sevens Tournament....

What a week, what day, and what a fantastic way to finish off what has been an exceptional tour. 

Today was the world famous Hong Kong Rugby sevens finals day helping the boys and coaching staff got to witness one of the worlds great advance in a stadium full of rugby enthusiasts that would love to watch exciting rugby and have an exciting time.

In the party spirit the boys got themselves already early this morning and we headed off to the stadium. In their backpacks were their fancy dress costumes, ready to go on upon arrival at the staudium. Most of them had purchased something at Stanley markets to stand out in the crowd and the winner of the best dress today was Harry Ward. In a wonderful White Rabbit suit with boardshorts, he certainly went all out in his creative outfit. Have a look at the Flickr page for all of the other boys costumes.

It's a long day at the sevens but there were plenty of things to entertain us including watching the south stand where many of the younger patrons consume huge amount of alcohol in their costumes and then dancing to the music that is constantly playing around the arena. There are a couple of videos on the Flickr page would might give you an understanding of what the rugby sevens atmosphere is really like. 

Following the event, and presentations, fireworks, etc, we exited the stadium with 40000 others, and headed home to our Hotel. We walked home together in a tight bunch, to ensure no one was left behind, in our bright yellow tour shirts,. the boys got plenty of comments along the way (from drunkin patrons), but all the same it was in good humour. We all had a small bite to eat and the boys start to prepare for our early departure from the hotel.

It has been one of those weeks that I certainly will remember the coaching staff and the boys have really enjoyed themselves and seen many of the sites that are available to us here in Hong Kong. 

They have been wonderful ambassadors for the school and also for our country their manners have been exceptional and they hopefully have gained some knowledge culturally on what is a very different country to our own. 

Thank you again to all the parents the ones that came and also the ones that are viewed the blog and the photos along the week weeks journey I hope to see back home. 

This will be my final blog and as Ronny Corbit used to say "Its bye from him, and bye from me"...

l see you back at TSS all the best 

Ian Browne