The 13-year-old, who is entering senior three at the Bermuda High School, says she loves working on the show and has learned a lot about the whole process of television production.

May says that she does "a little of everything'' on the show from researching and editing to starring in it.

"What is great about working on Fast Forward is that I learn a lot about different subjects,'' she said. "For example, recently we did a show on the Rastfarian religion and I found it really interesting.

"Another example is the first show I ever did on art. It made me realise that the term `art' is a lot more extensive than I ever thought.''.

As far as school is concerned May considers the past year her "best year'' although she admits that academics do not come naturally to her.

She was very proud to receive the prize for the most-improved student in her class at the secondary school end-of-year prize-giving.

"I came here when I was three and I spoke no English, from there I had to work my way up'' she recalls.

However, she confesses that she wishes she could be more like her brother Louis who is going to Queens University in Canada to study medicine.

She explained that she has always had an ambition of becoming a nurse and hopes to travel abroad to study after graduating from high school.

In her free time May loves to swim, play basketball, and hang out with friends.

She does not understand the use of drugs and violence among some of Bermuda's youth.

"What do they solve?''she asks rhetorically.

And May says she does not believe, like some youth, that there is nothing to do in Bermuda. She thinks there is plenty to do, but youngsters have to get out and find it.

May looks to Judy Smith, a teacher at BHS, as a role model and mentor.

"She has looked after me since primary one,'' she explains, "and she is just always there for me.'' May said only her immediate family live in Bermuda. The rest of her relatives are in Hong Kong where she was born.

May, who plans to stay in Bermuda, visits relatives in Hong Kong about every other year.

But this summer she is working at Everrich Jewelery -- her father's jewellery store on Queen Street -- and preparing for another productive year in school.

INTERVIEW BY DAINA CASLING MAY WONG