Being at boarding school in the pre-internet era, especially a boarding school tucked away in the Oxfordshire countryside, was like being in a cocoon. You had your own life; world events happened elsewhere.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.
Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.
I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.
Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.
Boarding school is a wicked thing.
It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.
I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.
The huge advantage of boarding school is that it throws you into the social fire. Every social interaction I've had since then has been a million times easier. Literally, ever since then, it's all been child's play.