All on my ownIt's not that I don't like football, but I'm Welsh and I'm fed up of the way it's dominated everything over the past week ๐ฉ Also I actually understand the offside rule, but I'm tired of explaining it to girls who immediately forget what I've said...See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolWe have finished now for the Easter break ๐ฃ Holly and Harriet went back home after end of lessons yesterday. Daisy is here until Sunday when she will go back home. Which will leave me all alone ๐
I Go to a Boarding SchoolTonight I will introduce you to the other girls in my dorm. Harriet sleeps in the bed next to mine. Holly is opposite to me. Daisy is diagonally opposite. There is another girl, Molly, who was moved into our room at the end of last term because she...See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolOur life at boarding school is organised by strict routine. A rising bell wakes us at 7.10am on a school day. If you are in the half of the house that has showers scheduled for the morning, you go along to the bathroom to wash. If not, you can be...See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolTonight I will describe my room and the boarding house in which I live. I share a dormitory with four other girls. The room is designed for four people, but at the moment we are sharing with a fifth girl who was being bullied in her own room, so...See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolSchool finished yesterday, now I have 6 weeks of holiday to look forward to ๐ I am all packed up and waiting for my daddy to collect me. Some of the overseas students, including my room mate Katya, caught flights back home earlier in the week, but...See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolEach of the three dorms in our house contains three single beds and one bunk bed. Because the top bunk is much valued among our girls, they rotate beds every Tuesday after the sheets have been put in the laundry ๐ The rotation is strictly adhered to...See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolTonight 5 of the girls in one of our dorms have swapped beds with 5 girls in another dorm. I know about this because they have been planning and whispering about it since at least Saturday. But when I go to switch off their lights in a few minutes I...See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolThe younger girls in my house went to an agricultural fair yesterday. There was a face painting stall and most of them got painted as their favourite animal. So back at home we had 12 cats ๐ฑ and 1 solitary frog ๐ธ I so love the girl who defied...See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolLast weekend, all the girls in my boarding house went for a picnic at a local beauty spot ๐ We ate our food near a large lake, but the girls were asked not to play near the lake as we had no change of clothes for them if they got wet (normally we ta...See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolI came back to school on Monday after the Easter break. In our house three of the overseas girls had remained in school over the break. Discipline is relaxed during the holidays and unfortunately those girls had taken advantage of this by trashing...See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolOne of my duties as Big Sister is to collect the mobile phones of all the younger girls in our house before they go to bed and store them safely until the next morning. This is really important as the illuminated display can disrupt sleep patterns...See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolYesterday I helped to entertain some prospective parents who were looking round our school. I am very happy to do this as my school scholarship pays for everything - my education, my food, my board, even the clothes I wear - so we need to get more...See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolWe are being visited by a wild animal ๐ It scratches around outside the boarding houses at night and makes a mess in the flowerbeds ๐ It could be a badger, or perhaps a fox or a lynx, we are not sure yet. Unfortunately, some of the girls in our...See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolThis morning some of the younger girls in our house brought me and Katya tea in bed, which they have not done for several weeks ๐ Later, one of them gave us a beautiful collage she had made from autumn leaves for us to put on our wall ๐ Now I don't...See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolOver the weekend, one of the beds in our house got broken because someone had been bouncing on it ๐ Accidents happen, but no one will own up or take responsibility for this accident. So the whole house has been collectively punished. Bedtime has...See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolThere is a little Chinese girl in our house who had a birthday yesterday. Her parents had bought her an expensive phone and sent some money for a party, so there was cake and lemonade and we decorated her area of the dorm with balloons and streamers....See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolLast night we watched DVDs in the house living room ๐ The younger girls got bathed and changed into their pyjamas early and there was hot chocolate to drink and snacks to eat. The first DVD was Pan's Labyrinth, which is an excellent fantasy film ๐...See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolI have just had dinner in the school refectory. It was very noisy ๐ One of the teachers shouted at a table of younger girls who were throwing food at each other. She said that they were behaving like they were in a Bear Pit. I can assure you that...See More ยป
I Go to a Boarding SchoolThe girls in our boarding house come from 10 different countries, in all the different continents of the world. Although they are only 10-11 years old, some of them have been at boarding school for five years already. They do not see their parents...See More ยป