Perhaps after reading the title, some of the speakers Oranghongkong.com confused why entering the best junior high school in Yuen Long is the beginning of a nightmare? The education system in Hong Kong is that when we graduate from elementary school, we fill out a form from the Hong Kong Ministry of Education to choose 3 junior high schools in our district. At my grandmother's request, we filled the 3 best junior high schools in Yuen Long at that time, including New Territories Heung Yee Kuk Yuen Long District Secondary School 新界鄉議局元朗區中學 and Chiu Lut Sau Memorial Secondary School 趙聿修紀念中學.

A photo of me with my schoolmates during the elementary school graduation ceremony at Chung Sing School Yuen Long

Not being selected to get into the schools that parents want

As I have told you in previous articles, my grades in elementary school were not good, and there was no way I could get into those schools. Then we got a letter from the Ministry of Education, and as expected, I was not accepted by the 3 schools, and I was given the option of entering a regular junior high school in Yuen Long.

Of course, my father and grandmother were very angry, but since my grandmother was someone prominent in Yuen Long and she felt embarrassed if her grandson went to a regular school, the principal of one of the best junior high schools in Yuen Long, Chiu Lut Sau Memorial Secondary School, finally accepted me as their student.

This made me feel depressed and I couldn't sleep well every day, because I knew I unnaturally went to the school and felt like I wouldn't be able to face the lessons there. One of the positive things I thought about at that time was that I only needed to walk 3 minutes to school because the location of the school was next to the apartment where we lived.

Discriminated against by junior high school friends who were in the same elementary school with me

On my first day of junior high school, my heart was very heavy, plus my classmates who were in the same elementary school as me were surprised to see that I could enter that school because they knew that my grades in elementary school were not good. So since then, they seem to keep their distance from me, and in the background, I like to talk about how I entered this school because of my grandmother's relationship with the principal.

Got the lowest repeat score in class

It's not surprising that my grades were the lowest in class in junior high school, because the elementary school friends who were able to enter the school were those who ranked 1 - 10 in the class, while the elementary school friends who ranked 10 after entering this school also didn't have good grades, especially with me. So when I was in junior high school in Yuen Long I never slept well.

Biology lessons and joining the astronomy lover community in junior high school became the biggest entertainment for me

Although I was depressed when I was in junior high school in Yuen Long, I still found comfort in biology lessons, such as performing practices such as surgery on dead white rats, making dried leaf specimens, insect specimens, and so on. The biggest pastime is entering the astronomy community in junior high school.

As I told you in the previous article, I love astronomy, so making friends and talking with upperclassmen who have astronomy is the biggest entertainment for me. At that time, the members of the community were relatively small, around 10 people. I still remember that our project before I moved to Indonesia was to make a big star binoculars from the bottom, such as sharpening the glass, making the skeleton and so on.

Only 5 months at Yuen Long Junior High School because he moved to Indonesia

I attended Chiu Lut Sau Memorial Secondary School for 5 months and then moved with my parents to Indonesia. In the next articles I will start telling how our process moved to Indonesia.

Chiu Lut Sau Memorial Secondary School is located on Yuen Long Tai Yuk Road.

Lut Sau Hall is part of Chiu Lut Sau Memorial Secondary School, which is often rented by other schools or communities to perform.