Students from elc International School recently participated in the FOBISIA short story competition hosted by the British International School Ho Chi Minh City. Judges were overwhelmed by the number and quality of entries, with over 60 entries from more than 30 schools across FOBISIA.

This year’s theme was ‘flight’, which was interpreted in a variety of creative ways: some students chose to write about literal flights, whilst some took the theme along a more metaphorical angle. Flight was used as an event, a theme, and a symbol in an incredible number of different ways.

Choosing a winner was extremely difficult, so congratulations to Ying Xuan from Year 10 in elc who won the secondary category.

This article was originally published in The Expat magazine (July 2016) which is available online or in print via a free subscription.