boarding school life

 

boarding school life

Everything you wanted to know about boarding school and weren't afraid to ask. Everyone keeps asking me about boarding school so first off let me insist that everything in my books is virtually like fiction! Even some of the names have been changed! Boarding school is, as all girls who read my books and board know, is pretty much like I describe it in the series only cooler. You don't have rentals breathing down your neck and at least while you are at school you can forget about their mad problems. Also you don't have to commute and you get more time to hang out with your friends.
That's another popular question - will I miss my friends and family? No, you won't. If you do you can go home but I bet you won't!
At boarding school you kind of have to get along with everyone (even the Honeys of this world) because like family they're not going anywhere in a hurry. More importantly one day you might want to borrow their lip-gloss or some really cool skirt of theirs. I think boarding school is more tolerant and easy going but I don't have any other experience to compare it to really - just the emails I get from readers at askcalypso@calypsochronicles.com
On the down side they work you to death because all schools care about are league tables and squeezing A-grades out of sensitive young minds. Tis tres, tres, difficult at times the strain they put us under. Mind you, I fully intend to do well in my GCSE's and A -Levels because I don't want to spend the rest of my life borrowing cool clothes and accessories of my mate-age. And I want to travel business class and work in a job that I quite enjoy.
Loads of USA readers are writing in asking if they would they be better off at a boarding school in the States rather than England which is too much responsibility for an immature girl like moi so I asked Star who is worldy wise and she says "definately come to England! Come over here y'all!" I suspect she's imagining having more exotic overseas friends she can stay with during the summer breaks to escape the madness of the Dirge Derbyshire Estate. If it's any comfort there are boarders at English boarding schools from every continent on the earth so I at least you can hang out with your homies on the plane on the way to and from school.
The other question everyone is asking is which school is best? Can they get a scholarship if they're parents can't afford fees? And should they go for mixed or single sexed? So my advice is do what everyone else does and check out the Tatler School Guide - it's on the internet http://www.tatler.co.uk/Schools/2006/. Good luck