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Recently, former students of AISG visited the campus to reunite with their friends and teachers. I interviewed one of them, 9th grader Chloe Cheng, who started at AISG in 6th grade, then left last year. She now lives in Toronto, Canada. Chloe said the hardest part about leaving AISG was “saying goodbye to the friends [she’s] made over three years, and the fact that [she had] to meet new people. But it turns out that it is not that bad. People are nice, and they’ll accept you.” She is enjoying her time here and having fun catching up with her friends. She said that “nothing much has really changed, except for the ‘very beautiful lockers’, and the cafeteria is really nice.” She says that she feels like she “left for an overly-long vacation, then came back.”
Chloe said that her new school in Canada is very different from AISG. She said that “Canada is halfway across the earth, and things there are very slow paced.” She said it is different for her because she “is very used to things going at a very high speed.” She said that the teaching and learning here is much faster than in Canada. When asked if she could go back to the time she was leaving and change anything, she responded “I would say goodbye to my teachers, not only my friends, because you also have a relationship with your teachers because you see them every day. You have to thank them for the things that they’ve taught you. I haven’t thanked them enough.”
When asked about advice she has for leaving students, she replied, “You’re going to have to face all your problems directly, because there’s no way to avoid meeting new people, and while your old friends will never leave you, you’re going to have to make new ones.” This advice is applicable to every one of us, because we will all be leaving AISG at some point, whether we graduate or leave early. While it is nice to relive moments, Chloe’s ultimate opinion was that you will always need to be able to move on and meet new people, and it will not be as hard as it seems.
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