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What is a boarding school like?
Im moving to a boarding school in 3 months. Without my parents- in fact theyl be in a different country.
I may be going to Uwcsea (united world college south east asia)
Im just wondering what a boarding school is like.
Leave as much information as you like.
Answer: The days at school were very busy, from the time that I woke up, to the time that I went to bed, I was constantly on the move, in the classroom and in the dorm at night. My alarm clock would wake me up at 6:00 a.m. I would get out of bed, put on the clothes that I had laid out the night before on my bench, brush my hair then make my bed. By 6:30, I am downstairs in the living room, watching some television, waiting for the dorm parent to say that it is time to leave for breakfast. At 6:45, she tells us that it is time to leave for the dining room. We all walk to breakfast together. The dinning room is at the other end of the school, across the hall from the elementary school dorms. When we arrive at the dinning room, we stand around in the hall waiting for them to let us in to eat breakfast. At 7:00, they let us in the dining room, my dorm walks to our assigned dorm table. For breakfast there is a variety of cereals to choose from, juice, toast, bacon or sausage depending on what the menu said. When you were finished eating, you had to sit at the table until everyone was through with their food. When everyone was through eating, the dorm parent said it was time to leave the dining room. We all walked back to the dorm together. By 7:30, we were back in the dorm getting ready for school. I went to my bedroom to get my tooth brush and tooth paste. When I got to the bathroom, I talked to my friends while I waited in line for an open sink to brush my teeth. After I brushed my teeth I went back to my bedroom to get my books for school. Then I went downstairs to watch some television in the living room, until the dorm parent dismissed us to school for the day.
At 7:55 we leave for school, school starts at 8:00, as we leave the dorm, I say good bye to my dorm parent and friends. At my school you only have five minutes between classes, you practically have to sprint to the next class. The first 20 minutes of the day is spent in homeroom. My homeroom is at the other end of the school, in the elementary school. Mrs. Romono was my homeroom teacher. She monitors the progress in our other classes and helps us if we did not understand an assignment. Mr. Becker was my Social Studies teacher, his classroom was on the third floor in the high school. In Social Studies we learned about all the states and world geography. Mrs. Vorice was my Gym teacher, the gym was at the other end of the school. My class rotated between four weeks of gym and four weeks of Health class. In Gym we learned volley ball, roller skating as a group, interpretive dance, we ran track and field down by the cub scout house and gymnastics. In Health we learned about the circulatory system and the brain. Mrs. Romono was also my Science teacher. In class we studied weights, grams, kilograms and liters. We also studied measurements, millimeters, centimeters and yards. Mrs. Hughes was my Math teacher, the Math classroom was right above the Science classroom, in the elementary school. Math was my hardest subject, all the numbers got turned around in my head, I was in the seventh grade, with the Math skills of a fifth grader.
Lunch was at 11:00, I was glad, that lunch was after Math, so that I got a break after a hard class. You were allowed to sit wherever you wanted to during lunch, my friends and I sat at a table towards the front of the dining room. As we ate our lunch, we would make plans for after school and talk about our morning classes. The food at school was good usually. The school made great lasagna, pizza and turkey sandwiches. After lunch, the teachers told us we could go talk to our friends in the boys quad courtyard. This was really boring, just standing around talking with nothing else to do for fun.
The bell rang, telling us that it was time to go back to school. English was the first class after lunch. The English classroom was right next to my Math classroom, in the elementary school. Mrs. Harper was the English teacher, we read and did reports on the Mark Twain books, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. In the fifth grade you are given the choice to study either piano or band. The piano room was at the other end of the school, on the second floor above the gym. Mrs. Francisco was the piano teacher. I played Jingle Bells at the Christmas concert and Swan Lake at the spring concert. The choir room was above the piano room on the third floor. Mrs. Olmsted was the music teacher, we spent most of the year learning songs to sing at the Christmas, Spring and graduation concerts. I am not a very good singer, I am tone deaf. The last bell of the school day rang at 3:15, I said bye to the teacher, then returned to my dorm.
When I returned to my dorm, I checked in with the dorm parent, went upstairs to my bedroom to put away my school books. I went back downstairs to tell my dorm parent that I was leaving for practice. In the fall, I had track practice, in the winter, I had cheer leading practice after school. The gym was right down the hall from my dorm, I went to the gym for track practice. At the gym attendance was taken then we paired up to jog down to the track and field area. I was a very slow runner, I usually fell behind the other runners and went at my own pace. When we arrived at the track, the team manager lead us in warm up stretches then the entire team ran a mile. When you were through running the mile, the coaches divided us up in to groups to work on our individual events. My events were the 440 race, the 60 yard dash and the standing long jump. The 440, is where you have to run up the straight track six times in a row. The 60 yard dash, is where you sprint down the straight track, to the finish line. The standing long jump, is when you jump into a pile of sand, the judges measure how far you have jumped. At the end of practice the team managers lead us in cool down stretches, then we jog up the hill to dinner. Dinner is at 5:00 The track team walks to our team table to eat dinner together. When I was finished eating, I went back to my dorm table, to wait for my dorm, to leave the dinning room.
We all walked back to the dorm together. If the whether was nice, the dorm parent would let us walk outside, to go back to the dorm. By 5:30, we were back in the dorm getting ready for study hall. I went to my bedroom to get my tooth brush and tooth paste. When I got to the bathroom, I talked to my friends while I waited in line for an open sink to brush my teeth. After I brushed my teeth, I went down stairs to check the list to see what my dorm job was for the week. A dorm job is a house keeping type job that you do every night for a week. Dorm jobs include: emptying the bathroom and kitchen trash, wiping down the study area tables, vacuuming the living room carpet, sweeping and moping the kitchen floor.
After my dorm job was completed, I went back to my bedroom, to get my school books for study hall. Study hall was for an hour and started at 6:00. If you made the A or B honor roll, you were awarded the privilege of studying independently, upstairs in your bedroom, otherwise you had to study in the downstairs study area. If you had a D or F on your report card, you went to another dorm for a two hour study hall, the teachers there helped you get caught up on your school work. When you finished your homework you went to watch the news in the living room for the rest of the hour.
After study hall was over, I went upstairs, to take my school books back to my bedroom. Recreation time starts at 7:00, when I came back downstairs it was time to leave for recreation time. I told my dorm parent which activity I would be doing that evening, then left the dorm. The recreation staff put out a list that listed what activities we would be doing each evening after study hall. Some of the activities we participated in were: swim in the school pool, bowl in the school bowling alley, roller skate in the school roller rink, play board games, win candy if you won the game, watch a movie in the auditorium and some days we chose our own activity in the gym. On Monday and Wednesday evenings, you could go to the student center, to buy candy, play pool or video games and listen to music on the juke box.
At 9:00, I had to be back at the dorm, to start getting ready for bed. I checked in with my dorm parent, went to my bedroom to get undressed and take my shampoo and towel to the bathroom. When I went to the bathroom, I talked to my friends while I waited in line for an open shower. After my shower, I went back to my bedroom to get dressed, put away my shampoo and towel. As my roommate was coming back from the shower, I grabbed a book from my closet, to read until lights out. As I was reading, I listened to my roommate getting ready for bed. At 9:30 pm, it was time to turn the bedroom light off. I said good night to my roommate, closed my eyes and went to sleep. As I went to sleep, I felt comforted by the routine of school life.
Category: Singles & Dating
persuade dad to move to NYC?
heyyy i really wanna move to NYC. right no i live in singapore. great place amazing education and all. but i NEED to live in NYC. or else i ll die. ive never even been there before but i know its my place. but dad doesnt wanna move because education in america not soo good, very unsafe, and my moms not well so she wont be able to do housework and need maids. what to do?i mean, there are private schools right? like gossip girl? not religious though. i mean what to do. would moving there be a good choice? right now i study in Uwcsea which one of the top notchh schools. what to do. pleeeease help me...thanksss....
oh and miss "starfish"...i dunno under what right u can say that im a spoltbrat. u have no idea what im going through. my grandma just passed away and my mother has a growth in her pituatiry gland and in her brain that the doctors are suggestion that its brain tumour. i dunno why i have to prove to u if im a spoiled brat or not....i dont even efifn know u. just so u know im just a young girl and i can have wishes. i dont think im the only girl in this effin world who wants her life to be like a character from sum tv show----and i dont even want my life to be like that. i just want suggestions on how to persudae my dad. god knows what gave u the frickin idea to come and judge me.
ps.....and if ive prbably insulted u in anyway then im sorry. atleast i can apologise to u even though i have done nothing. and even though u havent really insulted me really badly, it still has hurt me. but i cant help it that im havin a fragile moment in my life right now. small things are triggerin me..
Category: Other - Education
United World College of South East Asia?
I am considering going on an international exchange to this school. (http://www.Uwcsea.edu.sg/) Does anyone attend the school, or know anything about it? is it a good school, are people there nice, etc.?
Answer: UWC is an international school using different education system from most Singapore schools, and majority of the students are not Singapore either. Most of the students they either children of expats (rich and famous), or diplomat.
So, if you want to experience Singapore, perhaps you may want to choose other local school. Some are using IB, but most of them doing the GCE 'O'/'A' levels (British system). There are many good schools (not just in term of academic) in Singapore, and generally they generally nice and friendly people.
However, as much as Singaporean are taught in western education system, they are still Asian afterall, and is generally reserved in making friends, thus deem as unfriendly by most westerner.
Cheers,
Mel in Canada
Category: Singapore
Private Schools in NYC/Manhattan- girls?
i need names of some VERY good private schools for girls in nyc or manhattan. like top private schools. with like ivy league stuff. right now im in Uwcsea in singapore and its one of the top schools. U know like constance billard school from gossip girl. thats just an example cuz its one of the best priavte schools, has ivy league and all that --and super cute uniforms. lol :p i know theyre not real but there must smthn as good as that right? oh, and are there like any really goood performing art schools in nyc too? like the one mentioned in the "it chicks" by tia williams. look, im not obsessed wif them or anything. i just want to get in a reall good school, private school when i move to nyc-----upppper east side! plz no rude comments. thanks :P
Answer: Horace Mann and JFK High School in the Bronx are two elite private schools (though they're co-ed). Stuyvesant and Hunter College High School are public schools. However, they're so preppy that they're practically private schools.
Category: New York City
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Question on NYC.?
kk...right now i live in singapore...and i reeeally wanna move to NYC. My dad says we might be moving soon and so he wants options. i want nyc! but he wont listen. what are some ways to persuade him to move there? like good points? education and other stuff. and is it actually worth moving there? since singapore is a very safe & clean place, will we actually wanna go there? im startin grd8 in aug so if we do move will do education system be good cuz right now i go to Uwcsea- united world college. its one of the best schools. so thats prettyimportant. but i do know i ll luurve the shopping though. thanks.
and like...do i really wanna move there? i know as a need i rly want too....but like overall will it be good? and whats the difference between tourist life and residence in nyc? which one would u prefer me to do first? go and visit nyc as a toutist then make the decision?
Answer: i think u would prolly get beat up.....naw, really, it is a dirty city, crowded and busy but tell him its prolly the most diverse city in the world, so much culture with the different people, museums, zoos, parks, and they have 3 of the better high schools in the country, plus for college, u have NYU (voted #1 school that the average high school senior in America would pick as their first choice to go to college) and Columbia, a top Ivy League school. tell him that this is the capital of the world!!!!
Category: New York City
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best private elite prep schools in NYC?
hey, im moving to nyc from sg right now and i want to go to a VERY GOOD----BEST elite private prep school. im a girl btw. doesnt have to be all girls--i dont mind. right now i go to Uwcsea in Singapore which is a great school and i want the education to be amazingg.....but i sorta want the gossip girlish bit to...u kjnow---upper east side----chances for IVY LEAGUE---thats important---location and everything, as in manhattan or upper east side and all that. i know constance billlard and alll that are unreal but there must be something like that right? :P please give helpful answers. thankss....
and u know wtih those cute uniforms and jetsettin life and all. but uniform isnt exactly nesscesary....i just want sumthn like GG and constance billard--it has everything---education social -----everything---if u watch gossip girl---u wud knw...
Answer: Tamar gave good advice - of the three Science would be my choice. I was admitted to Tech but did not attend - huge mistake. If I could do it all over again I would go. (Did not apply to Science because it was too far away.)
Your question did not indicate a preference for a religious affiliation. My wife graduated Spellman, in the Bronx. Great school, a flagship high school.
As to the private prep schools - your current school is the best source of information on which school in Manhattan you can get into and match to your current experience. I don't know your school and don't know what gossip girlish is.
Category: Other - Education
How is the nationality diversity of UWCSEA?
Im enrolling there and I had to make the choice between Uwcsea and Tanglin Trust school. Im going to the East campus in the 9th grade.
Recently I was told that Uwcsea is dominated by Asian (Chinese, Japanese) and Indian students, I dont have anything against them but it seems very intimidating that it might mostly be 2 or 3 nationalities.
Do you think this is true? How is the diversity of the nationalities? Should I have gone to Tanglin to avoid culture shock (Im caucasian)? Can someone with experience, who lives in Singapore or goes to Uwcsea give me some advice?
Thank you!
Category: Other - Society & Culture
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Emergency!! IB Diploma Programme!? Help please! Future at risk here!?
Okay..so im about to finish school, and i really want to go to a college/school, that offers the IB Diploma Programme (IBDP).. ive been studying under the british system IGCSE and im going to be doing my OLevels next year.. the problem is, my dad.
My dad doesnt see whats so great about IB, he says that it doesnt matter if you take IB or A Levels because in the end when youre trying to get a job, it wont matter to the companies whether you were under IB or A Levels.
But i really REALLY want to do IB, because it offers wayy more subjects and its not ONLY about studing and memorising nonsense..we actually learn other things..and also get to help the community and do extra stuff like that. But this isnt enough to convince my dad that IB is better than A Levels..
And theres this awesome college Uwcsea..which is really good, its an IB college..i cant study in America or UK or Australia because my parents dont trust me :P ..so i have to go somewhere nearby..and Uwcsea is the awesomest college which is in Singapore..right next to Malaysia (where i live)..so i really really want to go there..no matter how expensive it is..ill get a scholarship if i have to.
All i need your help is to give me some really really good advantages of the IB Diploma Programme and how its WAYYY awesomer compared to ALevels.
This is what i want my future to be..i want to do IB and i want to get into Uwcsea..i havent thought of an alternative and i dont have a Plan B. This is THE only plan im willing to go through.
So, All help is GREATLY appreciated!!
Thanks in Advance. :)
Also one more thing..im not really sure wht university i intend to go to..maybe one in America or Australia or New Zealand or Canada..not sure bout UK..but i dont mind anything..im not really sure with what i intend to do with my future either..but im just really excited about IB..and A Levels just sound EXTREMELY boring. No offense :) So i really need to find a way to convince my dad..
Sorry..im not trying to make other people do my "homework" for me or anything..its cause..i did try to do my own research..i have! For the past few months..but i just..dont no what to tell my dad..
I dont really no about the whole ib thing..is it better than a levels? Because i cant really find a proper justifiable reason why it is better than ib? My dad thinks that ib is just harder and causes more pressure..but..i can cope with it..
I just wanted to see if anyone had some good reasons here..
I talked to my dad about it..told him whats good about it and he still doesnt seem to understand..it pisses me off.
I told him the benefits and all he says is, in the end all that matters is getting a job and companies and offices dont look at your secondary education or whether you did ib all they care about is what university you went to and what degree you have.
And i told him that well in order to get into a good university, ib will help cause ib is preferred more compared to a-levels..and then he says..why waste money on ib when you can finish a-levels in a less than 2 years time for half the price..and i told him well i can get a scholarship..aadn he says why waste time on a scholarship. I just dont no what to do! My mum doesnt mind me doing ib, but my dad thinks my mum doesnt no anything.
I really dont no what to do..if i have to end up doing a-levels..i think im gonna be seriously depressed.
I just dont no what to tell my dad to convince him. =.=
Answer: Tell your dad A-Levels are outdated. In the UK for example the top Universities such as Cambridge and Oxford oppose tot he A-Levels because it does not prepare you for the future whether it is work or it is going onto university. With the IB Diploma it will make it sort of easier in the future. It'll put you ahead of others. A-Levels are not challenging enough anymore and in the near future I think most countries which offer A-Levels will want to scrap it. Many are getting top A-Levels and are getting rejected from Universities because it is the easy way out.
Category: Other - Education
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Answer: Check out myspace and facebook and other social networking sites- You can search by school and graduation year.
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