How outsiders see CH

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:48 pm

The delights of going to CH as foreseen by a future pupil.

having breakfast made for me every day
getting lost in the school grounds
not always being at the top of the class
using the huge library
adding the whole of horsham to Yellowikis
not having enough time to write lists
going to chapel will be strange. i look forward to it as a new experience. i think...
getting As in my AS-levels
being in coleridge B cause coleridge was cool and he wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Is Col B ready for Spanish speaking Rosa? Does she wish she hadn't published?

http://listyourlist.com/list/109

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:48 am

Well I think it's great and I have left a comment on the site.

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:57 am

I have just visited and it is aan edited list we have been given here - no mention of Rosa looking forward to Further Maths! Good Luck to her.

How many come in as Deps now? When did it start happening?

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:30 pm

New Deps have been coming in reducsed numbers for a number of years but since the new Grecians' Houses, there have been about 25 each year...

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:11 pm

More about Rosa!

http://listyourlist.com/list/121

and there's still more on

http://listyourlist.com/list/115

but she seems to have survived that OK!

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:50 pm

I tried to comment but the site crashed

Are they not refurbishing Col B this year?

Hannoir · Post by **Hannoir** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:04 pm

Bless thats cute! Sure she will be enjoying it though

UserRequestedRemoval · Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:05 pm

How do outsiders see us?

For years I didn't say that I had been to pubilc school because everyone would start asking where I kept all my money. When I explained what the school was about, none of them would believe me. Now that Rock school has been on, they all want to know if I have met Gene Simmonds (or however you spell it).

The one thing most people go on about is the uniform.

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:08 pm

I didn't admit it for years.

It's one of the reasons I feel more confortable in the company of Old Blues than with more recent friends, because they really know what it means to have gone there, your parents weren't rich etc etc.

A lot of people now recognise the uniform...

Hannoir · Post by **Hannoir** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:12 pm

I'm proud to tell people and don't care what they think of me or the school.

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:13 pm

I would be happy to tell people if I thought I could describe it well enough for them to understand. problem is that generally when people ask, they don't really care and are looking for a one word answer, so there's no time for the protracted explanation...

UserRequestedRemoval · Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:17 pm

Hannoir it might be something to do with being Londoners. You don't own up to public school links unless you have to.

On the lighter side, I travelled home on my first half term holiday in housie. I travelled all the way from Victoria station to north London alone. The looks I got were the stuff of comedy sketches. I had about 20 people stop and ask me if I was atrainee vicar!

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:23 pm

thank goodness we never had to travel in uniform

although i believe they'd only just stopped it

now it seems the school don't actually wear it much

which again i think is wrong

no pleasing people like me i guess!

Hannoir · Post by **Hannoir** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:25 pm

No I think its because I went to a hovel pit of a school five years beforehand (which I'm actually proud of, I did get some sort of education there). I'm not from London and its very uncommon for people from my town to go to boarding school so its even more "weird".

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:26 pm

soc wrote:On the lighter side, I travelled home on my first half term holiday in housie. I travelled all the way from Victoria station to north London alone. The looks I got were the stuff of comedy sketches. I had about 20 people stop and ask me if I was atrainee vicar!

This time last year, Jonathan (against all advice) decided to surprise us. He travelled (in full Housey) up to London and then across it by tube. He then took a train from Kings X to Stansted and appeared at Newquay Airport in all his glory. We then took him to the nearest pub for a well earned drink!!

BTW Stansted to Newquay is obviously less convenient than flying from Gatwick where there are now 4 flights daily. However the cheapest flights from Gatwick are now Â£33 inc taxes but Ryanair does occasional sill offers where you can fly for just one penny plus Â£15 taxes. Unfortunately, it is a long way out of London and there is only one fly per day.