an illustration of an ideal childhood

[tammyly]

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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 every world imaginable. Those are the nice parts and that's what I'd like to remember about it.

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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.

Re: loooong comment

[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!