(Source: wifflegif.com)
1- Did your school look like Hogwarts?
No of course it isn't like Hogwarts, for a start Hogwarts isn't REAL. Boarding schools have lovely grounds tho.
2- Did your school houses have a Hufflepuff and Gryffindor equivalent?
Yep it does (FYI I was in the Hufflepuff equivalent).
3- Did you use broomsticks?
NO
4- Did you have midnight feasts?
What is this, an Enid Blyton novel? No there were no midnight feasts involved since we were all pretty much ready for bed at half ten and we were fed three times a day and could buy all the sweets we want from the local tuck shop.
5- Did you hate sharing a room with someone you didn't know?
Well you have to man up and get on with it really, however my personal experience in sharing a room is mainly positive.
6- Were you surrounded by rich people all the time?
There are some boarders who are very wealthy and you would always get the odd person flaunt it but mainly private school students are normal like everyone else.
7- Your parents must be rich for you to have gone to boarding school?
Not necessarily. There are lots of students who have parents sacrifice a lot to pay for their child to go. Also plenty of students gain scholarships.
8- Did you never get to see your parents?
That depends on how often your parents want to see you and how often you want to see them. At the school I attended you could go home or see your parents every weekend as long as they knew about it first. You can also speak to your parents at anytime as long as it isn't in the school day.
9- Did you get to play lacrosse or go horse riding?
In my experience my school didn't offer lacrosse or horse riding. Ironically I did play pop lacrosse at my state school.
10- Learn the lingo
Homework in private school land is called prep. There was frugal lunch once a year where we had soup, bread and an apple with the rest of the money that would have normally been spent on food going to charity. Also forget Year 7, 8 etc you have 1st year, 2nd year etc.
