Jack的小留学生日记 l 有趣的寄宿生活

亲爱的读者们，又见面了 !

本期想跟大家介绍一下英国的寄宿生活。

到了英国后，我成了克利夫顿的一名寄宿生。这是我第一次离开父母，也是第一次独自一人在国外生活。每次回想起这个经历，第一周难熬的景象还历历在目。

首先，我想介绍一下私立学校的宿舍分院系统。在英国和其他西方国家，每个学生入学时都会被分到不同的宿舍分院。在学校中，宿舍分院既可以指学生注册、更改和进行额外学习的物理建筑物，也可以指学校为了更好的组织学生进行体育和音乐等活动对学生进行划分的一个系统。在克利夫顿，宿舍分院散落在校园教学区域的周围，按性别分开。在预备学校有四所男孩儿的宿舍分院和四所女孩儿的宿舍分院，其中两所是宿舍，而在高中，有七所男孩儿的宿舍分院和五所女孩儿的宿舍分院，其中七所是宿舍。我刚来的时候住在哈特内尔的宿舍分院里，房子干净整洁，管理得当。宿舍有严格的纪律来约束学生们的行为举止。宿舍内部按照年龄来分组，我的宿舍位于顶层最内部，是一个很大的房间，床铺侧向排列在墙壁和窗户旁边，四周还有宽敞的空间让我们活动。我还有4个室友：西班牙的Boja和David，威尔士的Llewelyn还有父母都是军人的阿奇。因为寄宿者的多样性所以我的寄宿生活格外有趣。这里有来自世界各地的学生：西班牙人，俄罗斯人，中国人等等，大家有着不同的生活背景。我仍然记得以前大家经常在一个西班牙室友那里聚餐，他的家人每两个月就寄点西班牙香肠过来，我们会一起分享。每天早晨和傍晚，整个分院的同学都必须一起步行到学校吃早饭和晚饭。有时候我们会玩得比较疯狂，闲下来的时间会在学校的运动场上追逐打闹。周末会玩玩手机游戏或者跟室友们一起看看电影。学校在星期六通常都会有体育活动，一般会持续一上午，但如果自己要参加比赛的话，就会忙到下午四点左右。周末的其他活动也很有趣，学校每隔两周会安排我们在周日去公园或者其他地方郊游，这个时候就有机会品尝大家从家里带来的糖果和零食！

对我来说，寄宿生活是与朋友交流的绝好机会，这种经历非常的有趣。当然，我也会经常想家，但有老师跟舍监的帮助，我觉得这里就像自己的第二个家庭一样，这是一生难忘的经历。

注：我上寄宿学校的时候是五年级，当时的家庭作业和学习任务是最少的。但是对于高年级的学生来说，每天会有额外两个小时来做作业或学习。

 更多话题，我们下次再谈！

Jack.

英语版内容：

When I first came to the UK, I was a boarder in Clifton. It was also my first time leaving both of my parents to live in a foreign country for a long period of time, and by that, I must say my first week there was pretty intimidating. But first, we need to understand the house system.  In the UK and other western countries, pupils are split into houses on entry. Varying on schools, houses can be physical buildings that the pupil of that house register, change and do extra study, or just a system the school divides the students in, which helps them to more easily organise events, primarily sports and music. In Clifton, the houses are buildings that are dotted around the campus separated by gender. There are four boys' houses and four girls' houses, of which two houses are boarding houses in the Preparatory school and in the upper school there are seven boys' houses and five girls' houses, of which seven are boarding houses. 

I stayed in Hartnell's house when I first came, the house was clean and well managed and strict discipline was applied to keep us behaved. When I was there, the dorms were split into year groups, our dorm, which is on the farthest of the top floor, is a large room with beds arranged sideways next to the wall and windows on all sides with a roomy inner section for us to play on. I shared the room with four other fellow boarders: Boja and David from Spain, Llewelyn from Wales, and Archie, who's parents were in the military. A reason why boarding is so fun and interesting is because of the diversity of the boarders. There are people from all over the world, from Spain to Russia, and also some from China as well, from many different backgrounds of life. I still can remember when we would all gather around a fellow Spanish pupil for food as his family sends him a few sticks of their local chorizo sausages every two months or so and he would share it with us. 

All meals were eaten in school which every morning and every evening we have to walk up to the upper school hall as a house, some times more frantic than others and our free time were usually spent running and fooling around on the school field, Whatley or during the weekends, play some games on our phones or watch a movie together. Although we have school and games on Saturday which lasts the whole morning, or if you have a match, until four o'clock in the afternoon, the weekends are still quite fun as the school arranges exertions to parks and other places on Sundays every two weeks and we would be allowed to have sweets and snacks we brought from home. 

For me, boarding is a great way to connect with friends and is extremely fun and enjoyable. And of course, homesickness still kicks in some times but the teacher and matrons are there to help. Boarding houses are like a second home and it's an unforgettable experience of a lifetime. 

ps - I was in year five when I boarded, which, back then homework and schoolwork were minimum. But for people in higher years, there are two hours plus studying time to do your homework or extra studies.

Jack

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