Introduction to moi, and my school day

Hello, and welcome to my blog. My name is Anabelle de Vere, but everyone calls me Belle. I am a boarding pupil at one of the top public schools in Britain, which I will just call H or School. My best friend is called Jazmine, and we have been friends since Year Seven. So, I will begin (lol)...

7am - woke up
School bell woke me up as usual! We get two bells, one to wake us up, and another to tell us to get the hell out of our rooms because breakfast's ready! Got dressed into my uniform, which is blue: blue skirt, blue checked blouse, blue jumper. Brushed my hair and put it up. Ran downstairs as the second bell was ringing, Georgiana behind me, shoving me dangerously, and Amelie in front, nearly tripping up in her haste to get downstairs. In the dining hall, we joined the queue to get food. I had Weetabix and a cup of milk - yum. Sat with Jaz, Georgie, Amelie, Jess and Lucy.

8.00am - tidying room
We always have to tidy our rooms ready for inspection at 8.30am. Our housemistress comes round to check the dorms are tidy, and if they're not, she makes us tidy them at night instead of watching EastEnders or Corrie or some other soap. The housemistresses are nice really, unless you cross them, and then they switch to 'Psycho' mode and have a big spaz attacks lol. Georgie had a huge panic because she thought she'd lost Henry Horse, her special teddy bear, but he was under the quilt she'd hurriedly piled on her bed. We all have special teddies, mine is Bob!

9.00am - form class
They always register us, mainly to check us boarders haven't escaped in the night lol. Also, we have lots of day girls too (half the girls here are day girls). My form tutor is Miss Haydock and she registers us in Room 57. I sit with Jaz next to the window, so I can look out at the grounds. Miss H gives us some important details (hockey club starts tonight) and then lets us talk.

9.30am - English class
We have a surprisingly good English lesson, to say that we are studying Romeo and Juliet. We had to act it out, which was funny because Bethany had to be Romeo and Harriett was Juliet. Beth kicked up a huge stink, so Mrs Baker zapped her with one of her notorious 'I will kill you if you talk again' looks. That shut her up! Haha!

10.15am - Maths class
Boooorrrriiiinnnngggg - nuff said! My teacher tries and fails to get us all excited about Maths, but no-one ever falls for it! Its terrible, and atm we're learning Quadratic Equations which, to use one of Kerri's over-used phrases, takes the biscuit! They have got to be one of the hardest things ever invented by mathmeticians who thought it'd be funny to invent things that would give teachers an excuse to torture innocent young children with 3million years later!

11.00am - Break
Its kind of a tradition at H that we have toast and jam every breaktime. We all pile into the dining hall and the dinner ladies hand out slices of hot white toast, nicely golden brown and soft, dripping with butter, and slathered (if that's the right word there) in bright red strawberry jam, or dark purple blackcurrant jam, or rich pink raspberry jam. Once a week, as a treat, we get honey on our toast too. It's got to be the best tradition at H. Jaz and I took our strawberry jammed toast out onto the lawn in front of the school and sat down cross-legged to eat it. Yummmm!

1.00pm - Lunch
We have two lessons before lunch. Each of our lessons lasts for forty-five mins, and our breaks (we have two) last for a half-hour. Our lunch is an hour, and then we have another lesson, then a break, and then another lesson. The day girls can either bring their own lunch or eat with us boarders, and most of them choose the gorgeous school meals. Seriously, they are gorgeous!! You've never tasted better school food. I had beanie pizza, which sounds disgusting but is sooooo lovely, and chips with water and a banana.

4.00pm - End of the day!
The day girls go home now, unless they're using the huuuuggggeeee library or doing after school activities. Today, I dump my bag in my room, and go to the sports block to change into my PE kit: blue shorts and tee-shirt, and white trainers. I'm joining the hockey club. I know I'll make the team because for the past four years of being at H, I have done. I'm ace at hockey, I love it! I also play tennis, and I'm on the schools swimming and equestrian teams. My gorgeous chestnut horse is a show-jumper, and its my first year with a horse at H, so I'm dead pleased. Usually I borrow one of the schools horses. Luckily, Red, short for Red Sky At Night, is on full livery, so I don't have to do much, because the school provides care for him (ie: the grooms feed, muck out and exercise him unless I can do it). I meet up with Holly in the changing rooms, she's my hockey buddy. Holly's a day girl, as are many of my friends, so whenever I'm allowed out for the night from school or at weekends, I meet up with them. Boarding girls are not allowed to stay over at a day girl's house, so day girls sometimes stay the night here and we have leepovers then! Kind of...! Miss Young and Mrs Gatehead are the leaders of the hockey club, and straightaway make me and Holls help the younger students with the basic rules and ideas of the game.

5.23pm - In my dorm room
After hockey club, Holls went home, and I dashed to the stable yard, which is on the school premises, to see Red. Sarah, one of the grooms, was brushing him down. I said "hi" to her and hugged Red. She explained to me that he'd just been on the horse walker. When I got back, Georgie and Amelie were waiting for Neighbours to come on, so I went and had a shower and changed into my normal clothes. When I came out, they were lying on Georgie's bed, cooing over Boyd on Neighbours! I decided to join them.

6.00pm - Dining hall
The bell for dinner goes at 5.55pm, which is the signal that the fight for food begins. Me, Georgie and Amelie joined the queue behind some Year Sevens, who looked up at us in awe. Y7s are soo sweet, they think Y11s are majorly scary, and look up to us, and are very quick to move out of our way if they see us coming down the corridors! I sat with my usual gang for dinner. It was Funday Friday meals today, so I had baked beans on toast with lots of melted cheese. Funday Friday basically means they give us lovely unhealthy food as a treat, rather than meat and veg. I love beans, so I nearly always choose to eat those, or sometimes sausage and chips, or spaghetti bolagnaise or spaghetti carbonara!

7.00pm - Outside on the lawn
We all traipsed outside after our meal, and lay down on our coats on the front lawns, in a circle, talking about random stuff. I love it here at H, because its just like a long sleepover, unless you fight with one of your friends, and then its not nice because you don't have your mum to cry to. Jess talked about her little sister, who is in the Preparatory, or prep, school in Year Three. She has a brother who stays at home, and he's in Year Six. Prep schoolers still board here, they can board from the age of four, although that is flexi-boarding, meaning it can only be for two nights a week. When they're in Year Three, at the age of seven, they can board weekly or termly, like us Seniors. It seems quite harsh to send your kid away for a whole term at 7, but lots of Prep schoolers do board. Melissa, Jess's sister, does, since Jess lives in Cornwall. But at least she has Jess here. Jess didn't come until Year Seven, because there would be no-one there she knew and it might have uspet her when she was little. It would have upset me!

7.30pm - Jess's room
We all squished into Jess's room to watch My Family, EastEnders, After You've Gone and Not Going Out. We a break between After You've Gone and Not Going Out, so we ate some crisps and things, and danced madly to Jess's laptop (well, her iTunes library music at least hehe)!

11.01pm - Asleep (almost)
The bell went to signal we have to get into bed 1min ago. Housie (our affectionate name for the Housemistresses) will be round soon to tell us to shut up and go to sleep now, or else. And the 'Or Else' is that we'll be in bed half an hour earlier than the enforced Lights Out time for a week. Georgie's curled up with Henry Horse, and Amelie's brushing her hair. I lie down and wait for Housie to turn on the lights, check we're in bed, and walk off to the next room. Tomorrow's Saturday, and that means even more fun!