- I had to spoil my recess, stop hanging out with the boys,
and go meet her in the recess time because Mom said so.
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- My dad dropped me and I saw these girls.
It was a girls' boarding school, so I saw all of these girls
weeping and crying, and my dad expected me to cry,
and I said, "Okay, now bye."
- The moment your parents leave
that's when you realize, "Oh *@#!, people are crying here."
- First it was a bit difficult because boys were a bit
confused if they should sit next to me.
- It was new and exciting and you were away from home,
but then the homesickness kicks in.
- A teacher asked in the class, very embarrassingly,
which she shouldn't have done saying,
"Who will be friends with Aditi?"
- Anytime somebody got her period, it was a celebration.
So the principal would come to her
personally and congratulate her.
- There were several guys who would like
ask me out and it was very weird.
- We keep hearing random stories of women
trying funny experiments, "Hey that test tube from
"the chemistry lab is missing and you know why."
- There was a lot of hiding in bushes,
in the gym room, just everywhere.
- We used to get these bowls of jelly, it was shit food.
So at the end we used to trade with each other saying
"You give me your bowl of jelly and I will
eat your subji tomorrow afternoon."
- We used to have a 'duck shop'.
So like it was junk food and chocolates and everything.
- Rats was an undercover publication
and there was an entire satire written about teachers
and how teachers fight for positions within
departments to become heads of departments.
Nobody knows until now who actually published it.
- Two friends of mine were doing it
in the the gym on these mats and the boy
jumped off and the girl tried to jump off
but there was a trampoline there
and she jumped off the trampoline
and they thought they got away with it
except she jumped on the trampoline
so she came back up and the teacher saw.
- I think it's just, friends don't change,
their definitions in your life don't change,
you change as a person.
- My boarding school girlfriends are still
closer to me than, I mean I have best friends
here as well but it's not the same.
- And it's like, you know, they're like my sisters
or my brothers, we were that close, it was more like family.
- I think we were under the false belief that
we would meet each other all again.
We didn't realize the importance of
goodbye and I think that was good.
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