Old Girl Shares Her Hong Kong Experience

In March we sent out a call to MLC School Old Girls all over the World to share their pandemic experiences with us.  Each of us has our own journey and it differs from place to place, and country to country. We are grateful to the 14 Old Girls who answered the call from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.  We will be sharing more of these stories in an upcoming issue of LUCIS.

Living in Hong Kong during COVID 19 pandemic – Lydia Leung (class of 1995)

It has been a tough year overall for all of us, whether we live in Australia or overseas. We relocated back to Hong Kong in 2002.  Back to a heavily populated city of over 7.4 million people, that has always been buzzing with energy.

The burst of COVID 19 clusters has now silenced the city. The closing of many shops that couldn’t survive the downturn, and mandatory closing of all restaurants in the evening has turned this once World-famous city in Asia into a dark, quiet little town.

We have been through many significant changes to our lives, from shortages of masks, groceries and supermarket items, to total online home schooling for the majority of 2020.

Helping my children get through their whole school year on zoom and online projects was surreal. Handing in presentations and work, getting feedback and parent teacher consultations all done online made us feel distant. Luckily it was still encouraging to be able to hear constant motivations and support on line.

The children of this era have definitely shown they are adaptive and innovative, using many forms of communication to get through this lockdown around the World.

I really hope the virus will go away very soon, or that a remedial vaccine will be available so we can all travel safely and get on with our daily lives without fear.