A Day in the Life of an American-British School Girl by Julieanne

Allow me to walk you through my day on a Tuesday. Once you look at my schedule you may think that I picked a busy day but this is one of my shortest days of the week.

First I wake up at 7:20 and I start to get dressed (tights, kilt, blouse, tie, sweater, blazer, shoes, and hair pulled back). I walk down our 42 stairs to eat a breakfast of a Clementine or a fruit bar. After I’ve finished this, I walk back up our 42 stairs to brush my teeth. I go back down our 42 stairs and practice guitar till the rest of the family is ready to go. I happen to be a little bit paranoid when it comes to being late so I make sure that Anna Catherine doesn’t get any more sleep than I do. In other words, I don’t allow her to sleep in at all.

Once we get to school at 8:15, Anna Catherine and I hurry off to registration (like taking roll) at 8:20. After registration we go to assembly for 15 minutes and then off we go to our first classes. My first class is geography then French then R.S (religious studies) then its time for morning break. During this they usually serve toast or scones with the always popular black currant juice. 15 minutes later I’m off to Latin, ohh fun -those Latain endings are killing me right now. Then maths I mean math begins. (English is my favorite class but I don't have that one on Tuesdays. I like it because Mrs. Rowe makes it fun and interactive. Right now, we're doing a play by Shakespeare)

Now it’s time for lunch which lasts for 30 minutes. We have the option of eating in the salad room or 'hot room'. The hot room mostly serves hot cooked foods and the cold room serves salad or sanwiches. I personally prefer the salad room because it’s brighter and less crowded.

'Woo hoo' it’s now time for French but immediately after that there’s a break that lasts an hour and I usually rehearse with my 2 good friends Siobhan (left)and Chloe(right). That’s pronounced Sha von.
After break it’s off to double art or as they say ‘awt’ we have a very interesting teacher. And yet again we have math for the last class of the day until 4 pm.

But that’s not all. We now have activities which change every term. I have squash which is alot like wall ball and requires this lovely "games kit" or uniform on Tuesdays . At 5:30, it’s finally time to go home in the dark. Once we’ve said our goodbyes, we go home and eat, do our homework, and go to bed. And it happens all over again for 5 whole days.

Now I hope you understand a little bit better what a British girl’s school days look like at St. Bees.