Another side to Boarding School
Michelle: When people usually hear about boarding schools, they think they are very hard, and it is true, they are. Although, what most people don’t see is the other side to these marvelous schools! Yes, you do work for a whole lot of time, and yes it is a harder environment, and yes you leave home earlier than you thought you would…but with that people stop looking at these schools. They don’t see the other side to life here, and they miss out on a wild experience.
Here at school there are always things to do…BESIDES homework! On weekends we have shuttles out to dinner, huge stores like walmart or target, to shopping malls in the area, and every once in a while to Boston or New York. Weekends are used to catch up on sleep, hang out with your friends, do something fun, and well…. Do your homework. So… it may not have all the opportunities you might have at home, but it is actually a lot of fun! It’s like shopping with your friends at home except there’s no limit on the amount of friends you can have, in fact why not go in a group with your closest friends!
Also, dances are hosted often, I mean very often, so you can head down with your friends and dance to the loud music! Especially when you get a group of freshman down there I mean we take the dance floor and we own it. It’s a lot of fun! A few times a year we have more formal dances where you dress up. The place is decorated, refreshments and snacks are served, we get an awesome DJ, and some people go with their friends and others with a date. It’s a night to have a lot of fun and is usually very memorable (especially since us girls LOVE taking pictures, sometimes too many.)
During the winter, huge groups of people have snowball fights when it snows and it turns out to be a lot of fun. Once, we got literally more than half the freshman class out on the field for a snowball fight that lasted so long. Once I had retired, I could still see the mob from my window. It was so messy! I had to defrost my feet and change into dry clothes! Also, our dorms decided to have an all girls snowball fight outside because it had snowed so much.
These are the kinds of memories that build at boarding school. On more relaxed weekends I would go out to dinner, watch a movie, and sometimes play sports with some friends. Your friends are almost like your family. You build memories together that are unforgettable and very memorable. Boarding school isn’t just about the work, it’s about the LAUGHS, the MEMORIES, the FUN!
HI, i really want to go to an all girls boarding school but my parents wont let me, they say its too expensive and the schools i have looked at that are reasonably cheap are about 8 hours away from where i live. My mum said she would look for some good boarding schools, i guess it is good that she is even noticing i want to go but i dont think it is enough for her to let me go, i need to talk to her about it but i dont have a good enough arguement i need something that will definately let me go. I think it will be more disciplined for study and school work and great to meet friends, i believe this is exactly what i need to achieve great grades and get into a good university, i currently attened a private school but i hate it! i always tell my mum this but she always tells me to ignore whatever is going on and focus on my work, which i do. It gets worse, once my horrible day at school finishes i find myself at home having to look after my brothers and only get about 1 and a half hours study each night, which is not enough, and i also have to squash in my homework to this time, its so stressful and i cant afford to let my grades drop!! id rather just finish school go back to my dorm have dinner and study until curfew which will enable me more time for school work. can you please help me?? thank you very much lee:)