I got up a bit late at 7:30am today. Unfortunately, I got a sole throat today so I had to take care myself for the rest of the trip. After casually having the breakfast, we parted with team 5 for final preparation of the field trip presentation at 09:00am. We were the last team to present our topic: ‘A7 Linkou Desirable Residential’. Previous groups had conducted fantastic presentations about a shopping centre, ‘science park’ and social housing of Taipei respectively.  After that, we started our presentation at about 10:45am when Jasmine and Doris were the presenters followed by Kevin and Gary who facilitated the attractiveness with humor in order to draw audiences’ attention. I pretty like this presentation section because what everyone has visited yesterday was able to show to the screen. It felt like we had already visited four places at the same time.

After the short coffee break, we had started the preparation of Community Forum from 11:15am to 1:00pm before the lunch break. We were selected at the media reports of the House News as Patrick and I were the reporters. The official allowed every reporter to ask 2 questions within 2 minutes during the Community Forum. We admitted that we were not so familiar with House News at the very beginning. After conducting a brief research, it was believed that we had to be a rather radical media in the case of Dockers strikes at the Hong Kong International Terminals (HIT). We had drafted several questions and banners for our group mates to strengthen our grievance to the Government and HIT when we were asking them questions during the forum. The Community Forum started from 2:30pm to 4:00pm as most of the classmates under the spotlight were doing good jobs. Particularly Chris and Keith were so professionally in acting General Manager of HIT and the Secretary for Labour and Welfare Bureau respectively. After the forum, Louisa and Laura conducted a thorough and comprehensive report in their role as observers. Dr. Yip’s aftermath evaluation revealed that we reporters were bound by the pre-set rule of the official this time since the prime objective of the reporters were supposed to ask as many questions as possible. Moreover, credit to Laura who gave us a friendly criticism about our role as radical House News reporters as we perhaps acted too ‘polite’ during the show.

The last session for today was the preparation of Case Exercise 2. Our group acted as the villagers of Choi Yuen Tsuen as we were lobbied by several parties during this one-hour preparation.

Fantastically, we had free time for the first time of this trip at 05:00pm onwards today. Before having a dinner, I jogged around Long Bon Resort. Its design of Chinese gardening style with white walls and red roof tile and the handwriting of Sun Yat-sen ‘Tian Xia Wei Gong’ (All is equal under heaven), made me wonder its long history being a "Qiao Yuan" of numerous of Chinese tourists from overseas in past years.

In the evening I joined the mass dinner gathering hosted by our classmate Gary at Aoba restaurant. It was a really nice dinner and we enjoyed this relaxation moments after the continuous tense schedule in the past three days. After that, we took a walk to Ximending with several classmates and bought some souvenir to our loved one, family or colleagues.  It was hard to believe tomorrow would be the last day of the residential.