{"id":289,"date":"2016-10-03T01:53:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T01:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/?p=289"},"modified":"2016-10-04T00:06:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T00:06:08","slug":"sunset-in-yuen-long-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/2016\/10\/03\/sunset-in-yuen-long-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset in Yuen Long, Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The importance of getting good results in HKDSE* cannot be over stressed as getting into university is very important for youngsters in Hong Kong. Thus secondary students here have a very busy school life.<\/p>\n<p>They start studying from 8 a.m but without a particular time to leave their school. They try their best to do revision and preparation in order to get a good result in public exam. Therefore it is not abnormal for every secondary student in Hong Kong to have a beautiful sunset view at school when they leave the school. This view may make an immense courage for them to keep studying.<\/p>\n<p>This is the examination orientated culture in Hong Kong. It is hard to imagine in U.S., right?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-290 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2016-10-01-at-12.57.52-644x483.jpeg\" alt=\"whatsapp-image-2016-10-01-at-12-57-52\" width=\"644\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2016-10-01-at-12.57.52-644x483.jpeg 644w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2016-10-01-at-12.57.52-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2016-10-01-at-12.57.52-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2016-10-01-at-12.57.52-200x150.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2016-10-01-at-12.57.52-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2016-10-01-at-12.57.52.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>* HKDSE : Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination, a public examination sat by most of the young people in Hong Kong after their secondary education. Students can apply for different universities in Hong Kong mainly by the result of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The importance of getting good results in HKDSE* cannot be over stressed as getting into university is very important for youngsters in Hong Kong. Thus secondary students here have a very busy school life. They start studying from 8 a.m but without a particular time to leave their school. They \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/2016\/10\/03\/sunset-in-yuen-long-hong-kong\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,11],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong-life","tag-community","tag-school"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}