100 Facts About Pink Cupcake In 100 Days: Fact One

Everyone's favourite Star is doing this and suggested it might be a good meme. I'm all about memes right now, and posting one fact about myself for 100 days will certainly keep me blogging, so it's all good. Here we go...

At my boarding school there were 500 boys and 30 girls. You think that'd be a good ratio for getting a boyfriend, no? Not exactly. All the guys dated the girls from the Girls' School down the road, and treated us at best like sisters, although more often as annoyances. The school itself seemed to forget we existed. Only boys were allowed to play sports on the main school field. Only boys could be Head of School. Only boys could, upon leaving school, join the prestigious London club that the school associated with. Not that I would have wanted to join, but I also didn't want to sit through a compulsory two hour talk on the benefits of membership. Of course, if I could persuade one of the boys to escort me to the club for lunch, then (and only then) would I be allowed in, as long as I didn't try to enter the bar or library. Gah! Only boys...the list went on and on. We were supposed to make the school seem more progressive, as very few schools of this type took girls, but we were really just a thorn in the side of tradition and the old-boy network.

BUT having said all this I wouldn't have changed it for the world. It made us girls feisty and strong. It helped us to forge friendships and bonds with one another, in situations where girly bitchiness would normally have prevailed. We were a force to be reckoned with. We definitely punched above our weight in the school, and we made our Housemaster (the teacher in charge of the girls' boarding house, probably the least popular job in the school) fiercely proud of us. We knew we'd cracked it when he came to our house meeting one day in a t-shirt which proudly declared that he wanted to be an 'honorary girl'. Of course we let him...he bought us chocolate. :)