LEAFF: To My Nineteen-year-old SelfTBC

Ying Wa Girls’ School was founded by the London Missionary in Hong Kong at the turn of the last century.  For over 120 years, the school has proudly stood on the opulent hillside of the Hong Kong island, overlooking the beautiful Victoria Harbor and turning  out generation after generation of fine young students.  

Notwithstanding, as time went by, the campus, which was designed and built way back in 1950, had become inadequate to meet the scope and needs of modern education.  And so, after rounds of negotiations between the school committee and various government departments and funding bodies, it was decided that the old campus was to be completely torn down after 2011, and a brand new campus with modern facilities would be built on the original site.

This ambitious project was expected to take 6 years to complete.  In the meantime, the entire school body would be moved to a temporary campus in an old, rather impoverished part of Kowloon on the other side of the Harbor.  This obviously stirred up some anxiety among the students, the parents, as well as the teaching staff.  Yet the Principal firmly believed that this was in fact a good opportunity to prepare the girls for the real world they would eventually face