Youth speak September 2021∣Youth Hong Kong
We missed so much! l Even though the teachers are anxious, these pupils aged 8-11 are keen.
l 不少老師為學校即將復課而感憂慮，然而這 班 8 至 11 歲受訪小學生卻顯得雀躍。
l They are all desperate to see their friends and want to get back into class.
l 他們渴望能與好友見面，並想及早回校上 課。
l Some are a bit nervous about catching up and feel shy.
l 有些學生則擔心自己追不上學業進度。
Christian, 8-year-old government-aided school student More than anything, I have missed face-to-face lessons with my class teacher. I like her very much and even though she won’t be teaching me this year I can go to find her during break. I have missed my friends too and I feel excited about going back. I’m the class monitor and during recess I talk to the other monitors about who has been naughty.
It will take time to warm up and get used to sharing again.
It might be a bit difficult to make new friends though. I won’t know what to say. I am not used to it after so much time at home and feel a bit shy. It will take time to warm up and get used to sharing again. In online lessons we did Kahoot quizzes for English grammar. That was fun and exciting. PE was the worst online class. It was so boring doing exercises in front of the computer’s camera. Now, I’ve got lots of new textbooks to read so that I am ready.
Sze-yuet, 11-year-old cross-border student Please let me go back to school! This is my last year in primary and it would be such a pity to spend it stuck at home. I feel nervous and worried though. It’s so long since I was there and I think my Cantonese is getting worse and worse. It will take a long time to catch up and get to know my old friends again. I think I have even forgotten the rules of the games we play.
This is my last year in primary and it would be such a pity to spend it stuck at home.
I have to cross the border from Shenzhen to go to my Hong Kong school and I know I will need a super-loud alarm clock to wake me up. My mother rented a room for us in Hong Kong. It’s really small and I will miss my desktop computer at home Shenzhen. Honestly, I like online classes. I kind of got used to them, and I really liked the visual arts lessons. We watched a lot of good animations that I would very much like to make myself. But I have missed my teachers, my classmates and my school lunch so much!
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