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#1: mention of CS in guardian Author: Tor, Location: London

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:09 pm
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An article in the Guardian

anyone else see this... I wonder would the CS be the fictional school of choice for all board members?

Edited to try and fix url link, but can't seem to manage it Embarassed

I've done something with the link - Fatima with mod hat on Very Happy

#2: Author: Sunglass, Location: Usually London

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:02 pm
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Grauniad Ed. frivolity!

I would have liked the trilingualism of the CS and being in the mountains, but I fear I would have been one of the girls about whom heads were shaken in the staff room. Not that I would have boiled clocks or run away up the Tiernjoch, but I'm pretty sure I would have been the Marilyn Evans type, had I survived long enough at the school (those cold baths! the games!) to become a prefect. It would have been a matter of great indifference to me that the Middles were rioting over a game of 'Impertinent Questions' down the hall if I had an essay deadline, and people could have tilted their way into the San by the dozen during prep as far as I was concerned. (Did anyone see - poss also in the Guardian lately? - that someone's invented a school chair which can't be tilted? Although a true CS chair should also have a detachable back so Gaudenz doesn't have to saw it in half when someone sticks their head through for a dare...)

I suppose, if I'd been at the CS post-Marilyn Evans, I'd have been shunted off to Special Sixth to do languages, much to my relief. No Eilunedd-style jealousy for me... Then I would have gone on to Oxford in that wonderfully no-possibility-of-rejection way the CS girls do, done a doctorate, and would subsequently be spoken of as a kind of Stacie Benson - scholarly and other-worldly, but not fun like the proper Old Girls who go back to teach at the CS.

That is my CS fictional autobiography...

#3: Author: Mia, Location: London

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:21 pm
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Sunglass wrote:

It would have been a matter of great indifference to me that the Middles were rioting over a game of 'Impertinent Questions' down the hall if I had an essay deadline, and people could have tilted their way into the San by the dozen during prep as far as I was concerned.

You should therefore go to Kingscote.

This should be one of those proper multi-choice quizzes.

#4: Author: Shander, Location: the wilds of PEI

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:27 am
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I would have hated the games at the CS, and wouldn't have understood why everyone else is so enthusiastic.
Possibly I wouldn't mind the school from the Abbey series by EJO. I think I would have like the folk dancing. But my hand eye coordination as a kid was slim to none.

#5: Author: macyrose, Location: Great White North (Canada)

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:56 pm
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If I had gone to boarding school as a child I would have been like Odette in the later Chalet School books - homesick all the time. I was very shy then so I would have needed a small day school. A very small one like the one-room schoolhouses attended by Anne of Green Gables or Laura Ingalls Wilder would have been great. If I had to attend the Chalet School I would prefer to go there during its first few years when it was small enough to have a family atmosphere.

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