In 2018, I enrolled into secondary school. I was not good at socialising and not familiar with any of my new classmates. Therefore, I often sat in the corner of the classroom. In fact, I wanted to go out and chat with the others but I was not brave enough to do so. The situation did not change much until…
Sometimes, only a simple remark from others is enough to change the way people think about themselves. This story happened last year, when I was thirteen years old. At that time, I was a self-abased and an introverted person that I could not get on well with my classmates. Compared with me, most of my classmates were doing well in…
When was the moment you felt yourself different from before? Was it the time that you got rewards from studying hard? Or the time that you did a great job? Well! Mine happened in the year of 2021. Let us begin the story back to August 2021. In 2021, the Pandemic was not over yet. I thought this virus would…
The story happened two years ago when I first started my secondary school. It was a great change for me. I had a new environment to adapt to and some new classmates to meet. But those were not the toughest parts of the new secondary school days. In fact, the 6 core subjects (there were only 4 in primary school!)…
[Editor’s Note] This article of Kelly Lin was published on Young Post (South China Morning Post) on 4/4/2022. After two years of suffering from the Covid-19 pandemic, my attitude towards school life has changed a lot. In the past, I was a lazy student, and school life felt so tedious – it was just about sitting on a chair and…