HK executive spends happy time with youngsters
(CRIENGLISH.com)
Updated: 2006-07-20 14:40 Hong Kong chief executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen
has demonstrated his storytelling skills to a group of 20 children aged between
10 and 14 at the annual book fair.
Hong Kong chief
executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen. [sina.com]
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Casually dressed without his signature bow tie, Tsang also met Chan Yik-hei,
the first student in Hong Kong to be admitted to a local university straight
from Form Five.
Tsang told the 16-year-old to treasure his talent and ability to contribute
to Hong Kong. He also asked his parents to give the youngster sufficient space
to develop.
Before reading the tale, Tsang said his storytelling skills had become rusty
since he last told a story to his two sons about 20 years ago.
He chose a Scottish folklore tale, The Goodman of Wastness, which tells the
story of a handsome and heavily sought-after young man who marries a "seal
maiden" after seizing her seal skin.
The seal maiden soon begins to miss her family in the sea and decides to
return to them, leaving her seven children behind.
Asked by the chief executive how they would end the story, one child
suggested the seal maiden could return to visit her children from time to time.
Tsang praised the children's maturity, saying their solutions denoted a
harmonious life. He added that the story carried a special meaning that taught
people to be selfless and responsible.
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