Hamptons Weekend: Ross School, Lois Nesbitt
Am catching up on my posts in the BA lounge waiting to board the CX flight to Vancouver, which is running half an hour late.
Headed out to the Hamptons on Friday afternoon; the drive out took 3.5 hours. Much of Saturday was spent by the pool with HB & BM putting together quite the BBQ lunch spread. For dinner, NK had arranged for us to attend a Nobu-catered fundraising dinner for the Ross School. Dinner was excellent, especially considering that they had to bring everything in from Manhattan. The school was also the perfect setting for the dinner; as there were quite a few Asian-inspired interiors around the school. Ross School was founded in 1991 by Courtney & Steve Ross (former Time-Warner CEO). Looking through their brochure, it is exactly the kind of school I would have loved to have attended. The school's curriculum embraces technology in all areas of learning and its approach to teaching is inter-disciplinary and global in perspective. Most importantly, Ross teaches that learning doesn't just take place from textbooks or from within the walls of a school. There's an emphasis on community service and learning opportunities outside the school and abroad. Students are encouraged to explore their own areas of interests and intellectual enquiry. The Hong Kong education system could use a total revamp along these lines. At it stands now, probably only a handful of international schools offer a similar educational experience.
The most active thing we did on Sunday (aside getting the NY Times and my Dolce de Leche latte, for which I made BM drive me out to Bridgehampton's Starbucks first thing in the morning) was a morning yoga class with Lois Nesbitt at One Ocean Yoga. Lois, like Patrick at Pure Yoga, is a student of John Friend. It was a great class, felt very familiar and I got to work on my handstand. An interesting tidbit about Lois is that before becoming a full-time yogi is that she was an artist, writer and taught at Princeton University. Interesting career change, but I guess yoga is full of such stories.
The rest of the day (and weekend) was spent reading the Times at the beach. It only started to rain just as we got on the LIE to head back into Manhattan.
Headed out to the Hamptons on Friday afternoon; the drive out took 3.5 hours. Much of Saturday was spent by the pool with HB & BM putting together quite the BBQ lunch spread. For dinner, NK had arranged for us to attend a Nobu-catered fundraising dinner for the Ross School. Dinner was excellent, especially considering that they had to bring everything in from Manhattan. The school was also the perfect setting for the dinner; as there were quite a few Asian-inspired interiors around the school. Ross School was founded in 1991 by Courtney & Steve Ross (former Time-Warner CEO). Looking through their brochure, it is exactly the kind of school I would have loved to have attended. The school's curriculum embraces technology in all areas of learning and its approach to teaching is inter-disciplinary and global in perspective. Most importantly, Ross teaches that learning doesn't just take place from textbooks or from within the walls of a school. There's an emphasis on community service and learning opportunities outside the school and abroad. Students are encouraged to explore their own areas of interests and intellectual enquiry. The Hong Kong education system could use a total revamp along these lines. At it stands now, probably only a handful of international schools offer a similar educational experience.
The most active thing we did on Sunday (aside getting the NY Times and my Dolce de Leche latte, for which I made BM drive me out to Bridgehampton's Starbucks first thing in the morning) was a morning yoga class with Lois Nesbitt at One Ocean Yoga. Lois, like Patrick at Pure Yoga, is a student of John Friend. It was a great class, felt very familiar and I got to work on my handstand. An interesting tidbit about Lois is that before becoming a full-time yogi is that she was an artist, writer and taught at Princeton University. Interesting career change, but I guess yoga is full of such stories.
The rest of the day (and weekend) was spent reading the Times at the beach. It only started to rain just as we got on the LIE to head back into Manhattan.
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