Boarding Schools : Is It Worth It?

Imagine,you've got the perfect life, you've got friends,you've got a boyfriend/girlfriend,you're popular,your parents love you,you have everything you could ever ask for, then one fine day your parents decide to send you to a boarding school. How would you react?Most of us would have a fit.

So something like this happened with me a month ago. 

In my case, my life wasn't so perfect. Though I had friends and my family loved me yet there was too much drama in my life. I was perfectly contented with what I had.During the summer break my parents took me to a city where they showed me this MASSIVE building. It was a boarding school, since I cannot write the original name,I'll call it "United World School". The school had everything! It had a pool, 5 badminton courts, 2 tennis courts,a squash court, a table tennis court,a football field, in short it had everything you could ever ask for.So after taking a long tour of the school I decided that I should join it,well I could see no harm in going to such a marvellous school for two years. So in the next few days I packed my bags and got ready to leave. 

On July 7th, my parents dropped me off to the place which was supposed to be my home for the next two years. The first day was filled with confusion and chaos. Though there were only 500 girls yet it felt as of there were a million girls out there. I didn't cry for the first few days as I didn't know what was happening in my life but when I did cry I could stop. I felt so out of place and it was unbearable. After endless counselling sessions and talks with the teachers I decided that I couldn't stay there any longer. Maybe I am a quitter but is it still considered quitting if you're doing it for your happiness? Maybe I could have settled there but all the while I was there, one month to be exact, I never felt alive. I guess it's a bad idea to send your kids to a boarding school when they're 17 because at that age the friend circle becomes very rigid and it gets very hard to adjust.

I still can't understand if there was a problem with the boarding school or me. I'll write more about this in my next posts.Untill then..

Much love,

Hazel