It was a hard time. It was difficult to make friends as the children weren t there long. Hong Kong is a very transitory place. You had made friends by the end of the school year and the next year you had a whole set of new people to get to know. Hong Kong is a very transitory place.
People pass through to do business, to make money.
The children s parents were there on contracts, a few years at a time. We were taught the history of Hong Kong just as much as we were taught European history. The syllabus was very British. But having said that the teachers were very even handed with the history. No one denies the history of Hong Kong.