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Getting to ‘adorbs’(adj) The 70 Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival took place
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know… • An informal expression used to describe 1 st during November and December 2018. After holding
something extremely charming or auditions early in September, 23 students from S1 to S5 were
Ms. Elaine Lui appealing. selected to represent BWFLC in the solo verse category. Our
school also entered an S1-S2 team in the choral speaking
• Originates from the word ‘adorable’. category. We are proud of every single team member who
What is your life motto? did their best with the help of Ms Chow and Ms Crouse. The Choral Verse Team
My life motto is: "Attitude is a little “Just look at this tiny poodle. Isn’t she just Charles Mingoa students’ hard work really paid off and we had seven prize
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thing that makes a big difference." adorbs?!” (1B) – 1 place winners this year. Our choral speaking team, trained by Ms Lee, also got the third place.
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Do you have a favourite Three totally adorbs cafés you must check
book? out this year
I love the Harry Potter Series. I am Rabbitland Café
fascinated by the magical world that
J. K. Rowling has created. Prepare yourself for a cuteness overload Angelene Alacantra Dannawin Gallero Manmeet Kaur Thihansa Godakanda Samantha Buhia Joshua Paul Lucing
as you enter Hong Kong’s first rabbit café. (2D) – 1 place (3D) - 2 place (1B) – 2 place (1B) – 3 place (2D) – 3 place (1B) – 3 place
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What is your ultimate feel- Inspired by a trip to Japan’s famous ‘rabbit
island’ in Okunoshima, this adorable upstairs
good song? café invites you to slip on your socks and Hong Kong Inter- Wall Street English. In the session
Jason Mraz's ‘Living In The Moment’. step inside the ‘bunny den’ with 12 fluffy students learned more about the
It's an encouraging song which helps bunnies. School City Nature various game booths and how to
me get through the tough times in my Challenge facilitate the activities.
life. Address: 3/F, 530 Jaffe Road, Causeway Bay This year BWFLC participated in the
What is your pet peeve? Charlie Brown Café first ever Hong Kong Inter-School
City Nature Challenge from 5–8
My pet peeve is my students not This café is decorated with adorable November. The HKISCNC is a friendly
using correction tape when they Peanuts character sculptures, Snoopy 4-day competition in which secondary
make mistakes.
inspired decor, and collector’s items. schools had to find and log the most English Ambassadors in the English
The 4,000 square-foot cafe is the species in and around their campus, English Ambassadors identifying Fun Day training workshop
What is your favourite perfect setting for big kids at heart. gathering more data on Hong Kong's and logging their observations
place in the world? urban biodiversity. Students learned to understand On the day, English Ambassadors
volunteered at 10 games booths
Definitely my home! I love staying Address: G/F-1/F, Kok Pah Mansion, urban biodiversity in our school in the school hall. Students from
with my family and sharing every 58-60 Cameron Road, Tsim ShaTsui and surrounding neighbourhood S1 – S6 visited the hall during their
happy moment with them. and helped to contribute to citywide English lessons. Students got the
biodiversity data. BWFLC ended chance to practise their English skills
Cat Store in the top five out of 31 local and in a fun and informal setting, and

Hong Kong’s only cat café is international secondary schools in they enjoyed the day very much!
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located on the 3 floor of a part the city.
residential, part commercial Ms Crouse at the HKISCNC briefing Wall Street English
building in Causeway Bay. This session in the school library
quirky café has 11 resident Our school’s English Ambassador Fun Day
cats who love to be stroked, Team took part in the competition. Wall Street English visited our school
groomed, and spoiled rotten. Over the course of three days, 35 for an English Fun Day in the first
Source: https://www.localiiz. observers made 2573 observations term. Before the event, our English
Address: 3D Po Ming Building, com/top-10-themed-animal- and recorded 295 species of plants Ambassadors attended a training
Foo Ming Street, Causeway Bay character-cafes-hong-kong/ and animals in and around our school session presented by tutors from EA Jerry Kim (3D) explaining the
campus using the iNaturalist app. game ‘Take the Order’ to students
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