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EDITOR’S NOTE
Belinda Zhou
International Tutor
Hello, readers!
It’s quite hard to believe that we are already at the final issue of the newsletter this year. In only a lit-
tle over a month, many of us on the International Tutor team will be concluding our time at EdUHK
and in Hong Kong. For this reason, instead of workshop spotlights, I asked each International Tutor
to briefly reflect upon their time here.
This month’s theme was a question: “Where are we?”. Many of you may have the same question
in your minds right now, particularly if you are graduating this semester. Hopefully, our writers’
various approaches to the theme will open your minds to different ways of answering this question.
Opening the issue, Tyler ponders our place in society and how individuals persevere and adapt in
the face of challenges. Ella, who is part Chinese and part Filipino, wrote about the situation of ethnic
minorities in Hong Kong. Despite being raised in the city from a young age, many ethnic minori-
ties, she argues, have a difficult time fitting into local culture and society, in part due to structural
barriers.
Qinxin and Linda bring the question to a more global context. Qinxin shares her experiences trav-
eling and living abroad alone and how that has enabled her to better understand herself. In a more
whimsical piece, Linda writes about finding a home through the eyes of two rabbit figurines.
I thoroughly enjoyed serving as editor for the newsletter and am very grateful to have met such
creative, motivated, and talented student writers through this project. Thank you all for your won-
derful submissions through this year; without student work, we would not have a newsletter at all.
I also wanted to express my sincere gratitude to Mr David Brown, Dr Jessie Choi, and Dr Pamela
Leung for reading every issue and offering your suggestions prior to publication every month.
I hope you have enjoyed the issues that we have published this year. Have a wonderful summer!
MAY 2018
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