Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Boarding school is a wicked thing.
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.
It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.
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.
Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.
The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.
I always wanted to go to a drama school.
I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school.