Going to school in the UK
Uploaded by sankeel on Dec 19, 2007
I was very grateful and lucky to have been given the opportunity to attend school in the United Kingdom. Something that I would expect a lot of my peers would have wished for and probably died for. Although I have been studying in the UK for already about 5 years now but what exactly have I learnt and experienced in the course of it?
From the first day I began in the St.John, four and a half years ago, it was already not entirely the easiest thing to cope with. I was at the time already carrying the pressure to do well and try to exceed all expectations. On the first day, I have had to cope with an entirely different environment and at the same time make friends. I found this very hard because I didn¡¦t know what people in another country was like; how they actually behaved and how they treated others. However, I was given a tremendous amount of help from my mentor; he helped me in familiarising with the house. He told me what the rules were and he taught me how to avoid getting into trouble with the Housemaster. From my mentor I was able to learn how English people were like and it was all because of him that I was able to learn how to make friends with people around me. I knew from the start that if I didn¡¦t make friends, life in the house would be very difficult. I also had to consider the fact that if I was to accidentally make enemies it would be very hard for me to enjoy my time in the house as I spent most of the year living in it.
Food in the house was cooked and served by chef hired by the school. I found it extremely hard to adapt to a completely different diet. This prevented me from eating too much because the food was terrible. This has still left me wondering whether it is that English people can¡¦t cook or whether the chefs are just awful. We ate potatoes for nearly every meal everyday. Sometimes after the meal it leaves me wondering on whether the food in that particular meal was edible or not. It always seems as though that no one ever eats it. During my two years in the St.John the food showed no improvement at all not even...