Adjusting from Boarding School

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Going to an all boys Boarding School sucks, and rocks at the same time. Trinity-Pawling School had its ups, and downs, but it’s the lessons and mental scaring that stick with you for the rest of your life that matter. Don’t get me wrong, I loved boarding school it was amazing. I don’t regret it at all. However, I was constantly isolated in various settings. I had a collective amount of 5 months of breaks out of year for breaks, which was awesome. These giant lengths of time allowed my family to go to exotic vacation spots or to enjoy my time at home, alone. I lost all my friends from my hometown because I virtually was never home when they weren’t in school. It seemed like my parents would always coordinate to go someplace for vacation whenever public schools and private schools had the same general days off. I always have craved being around people I can fit in with, which was generally anybody my age, so this often leaves me reminiscing on the boarding school memories. In Johnson dorm I’d hang out with my best friends Brad, Timmy, Tom and Ben all the time. We all lived in the same dorm right next to each other. In the beginning of the fall term, my friends and I created our very own ‘lets play’ YouTube channel where we’d play horrifyingly scary indie videogames. We played Slenderman, Insomnia, The Stairwell, and SCP containment breach; then we’d upload our video to YouTube. We never got many views but we thought one day we would! After my tiny little computer crashed, we got a PS3 and a projector to replace it! In between our classes and daily routine we’d find time to watch hundreds of movies, TV episodes of Game of Thrones along with other shows; and our videogames like Little Big Planet 2. I remember waking up on a Sunday morning half on my friend Brad’s beanbag chair and half on his filthy furry carpet; I felt like that was one of my dearest and most
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