Walung Elementary School is located on the western coast of  Kosrae, an island state of the Federated States of Micronesia located in the Pacific Ocean. Our u-shaped building consists of 10 classrooms, an office, a library, and a computer lab.
The area around our school is full of history. In the late 1880's, American missionaries established a boarding school called Wot just yards from where our school resides today. The mission school originally focused on educating Marshellese boys who had been brought by the missionaries to Kosrae. They learned English, math, and Bible as well as life skills such as gardening, farming, and cooking.
In 1882 a mission school for boys from the Gilbert islands was erected on the Wot campus. Kosraean boys were welcomed as day students to both schools.
In 1887, a third school was added for Marshellese, Gilbertese, and Kosraean girls (Girls' Training School).
All students did their own cooking, washing, and sewing. They cared for the dormitories. They attended classes every morning and worked on the farm each afternoon. The schools depended on the students' farms and gardens for food such as coconuts, breadfruit, bananas, taro, mangoes, limes, pineapples, and yams. They also tended goats and cows brought by the missionaries from America. Adult Kosraeans worked for the school as builders, farm workers, and domestic helpers.
In 1905 a typhoon destroyed the buildings at Wot and the boys' schools disbanded. Gilbertese and Marshellese boys returned to the island. The Girls' Training School, which had admitted local boys as students, rebuilt and continued until the 1970's.

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