an illustration of an ideal childhood

[tammyly]

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[tammyly]

Hold on, are we talking about http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMNntZuQlPlSC0jNpGvG7X61m746iNvBf22kwIomfCktyjvRs&t=1&usg=___1A8kIxEa9tqR15zHdDC-BIo3VI= or http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TNDGDAMWL._SL500_AA300_.jpg ???

I miss the old times too, when everyone would blog a few times a week! Now there's Facebook and Tumblr to keep us occupied, haha.
I went to a boarding school, but we had to wear the horrid blue pinafore as well (Government wouldn't let private schools design their own uniform.)

[tammyly]

Ugh blogging during high school was so lonely!
No one really cared about it then.

Apparently our school's old school uniforms were qipao's before the war! I rather wear that U_U

[skyewishes]

Oh, I've been wanting to see Le Petit Nicolas, there have been such interesting stills in all the magazines lately. I shall have to find it somewhere.

I love the new sticker set, are you going to have them printed on sticker paper some day? The Marble sud tote is too cute, mine is on the way in the mail.

My ideal childhood would be very similar, but in a different era, because I don't think boarding schools now are quite as we imagine them from books.

[syrup_tea]

I agree, I love old English boarding school stories. I have the most wonderful boarding school book which belonged to my Grandmother when she was a girl called 'Shirley at Charterton,' which is just perfect.

[tammyly]

You'll love it, I couldn't stop smiling throughout the entire film.

Yes, I plan to print all the sticker sets I've done and maybe make a full letter set (with designed envelopes, letter sheets and stickers maybe?)

Boarding schools now have somewhat similar rules like curfews, prohibited items like books and magazines that are not "educational" etc.
Instead of being allowed to go home during the end of every semester, we can choose to return every weekend.

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[meriel_leirem]

I don't know... the uniforms are cute of course, and boarding schools always looked like so much fun in books and films, but I'd probably have felt opressed by that as a child. I was a rather free child and I loved it. I think living in the countryside, with more children in your age, and being able to roam around freely, not hindered by the strict rules of a boarding school, and discover your surroundings, build huts in the forest and try to catch something in the stream (which of course never happens...) in whatever clothing that's easy to clean after you fell into the mud or sat in the grass is a lot more fun for a child. I didn't quite have that childhood, but it was closer to that than to uniforms and boarding schools. The nice parts were a big garden with a small stream as a border, it was walks in the forest with my father and later, when we moved to a small city, playing on the big meadow behind the house with my friends, where we would also go sledding in winter. And of course rooms full of books which transported me into

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[tammyly]

For me I don't regret staying in a boarding school, being able to spend after school time with my best friends, sitting around in a circle telling ghost stories at night, having secret feasts and parties, the only thing that's missing is the cute uniforms haha. After leaving the hostel and spending my last high school year staying at home, I missed the sense of community and closeness with other girls my age.

Your childhood sounds really idyllic, I wish I could have done all that but in tropical places there aren't really any meadows or forests, just jungles with wild boars, leeches and sometimes tigers.

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[meriel_leirem]

I was in a boarding school for half a year? a year? But then we luckily moved to the village where the school was, so I could go to school there without living in the school. I just never got along with many of the other students of the boarding school, which of really ruins the sense of community and closeness ;) I basically just spent my evenings reading on my own.
But in your case it sounds a lot more agreeable than that ;)
You told me you've been to Switzerland, you've probably seen a bit of how the midland looks in that case, that's where I grew up. Close to the rhine, hilly area, mainly fields and forests. I'm glad my mother decided not to stay in Colombia with me after she got divorced from my father, she did it so I could actually go out on my own as a girl without being in danger and that is quite a luxury. (The Swiss country side and small cities are surely safer than the Colombian large cities.)

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[tammyly]

Ahh, the company is very important for a pleasurable boarding school experience then ;)
You're very lucky to have a childhood in such a beautiful place!

[syrup_tea]

I think my ideal childhood would be like the Little House on the Prairie books, where I would be running barefoot through the grass like a wild girl and living on the unexplored frontier. I was always so sad in the later books when they ended up living in a town.

[tammyly]

For me it would be like those Enid Blyton books that gave us idealistic notions of boarding school lives, haha!
I tried running barefoot through grass, the sharp little stones hurt and the grass cuts (sounding so much like a city dweller, which I am, born and bred U_U)

[syrup_tea]

I'm the opposite, I grew up in the country but I think I will always be a 'city mouse'!

Now I want to read all of 'The Naughtiest Girl' books again ♥

[tammyly]

Oooh you got your account back \:D/
Even though we're a private boarding school, the government still dictates little details like our school uniform(which is one of the main perks of a private school!) :(

Yess I love old manors and castles too, too bad there are no scenes in Hogwarts this time...

[tammyly]

That poster is too sad T_________T
Haha, I wonder what they do with old film posters...