How boarding school changed my life.
hello my name is louis dayan
and today i’m going to speak about our
boarding school change my life
so it’s a really personal story about my
yearbook of my own country
which is friends to go in england so
when i was 14 years old
my parents used to be mad at me because
of my behavior at class or at home
and because of my marks so i started to
be threatened by my old middle school
and i had to change my behavior because
otherwise
i will be dismissed of the school so my
parents
were thinking about sending me into a
boarding school but where
i didn’t know yet but i was
far to imagine that i was going in
england
so far away of france so now our
boarding school changed my life
so at the beginning as an international
student who was speaking english like a
spanish cow
i was really worried about the language
and about to be far away of my family
and my friends
but i figured out that many people were
in my case
so it became easier to progress in
english and to meet new mates
and i was the only french student in the
school
so i had no choice i had to speak
english
so there’s three parts in your lifestyle
that is
really that are really important um
in a boarding school especially in
england so
there is time to work there is time to
do sports
and there is time to do whatever is
making you happy within certain limits
and i think that was the key of success
for school
because that actually worked a lot for
me
so now as a old member of the french
educational system
it’s impossible to compare them because
they’re really different
so for example the behavior of the
students
are different because they are way
motivated in england to learn
also sports has a really relevant role
in school’s life
and the timetable is really strict to
give you the ability
to perform those three things every day
but there is not bad things in the
french system
but i mean for example the size is
completely different
because i was in countryside so it was
much easier but
it was completely different for example
my school was like a small village like
all the sports that you can imagine off
were available to practice there
and that was amazing and that also
worked for
the key of success i think so you could
do like basketball
rugby tennis even crickets
and that was the key i think now let me
talk about a typical day
in my boning school so i started lesson
at 9 00 am
and i finished at 3 30 p.m and after
that i got
two hours of sports depending of what
you have chosen
but me it was tennis and rugby because i
was part of the school team
but you could do many things such as
squash even
table tennis or even chess after that
believe it or not but it was time to eat
dinner
at 5 30 p.m i know that sounds crazy
you come back to the boning house for a
quick roll call and here you go to the
computing room
for one hour and a half of prep yes
you were forced to be stuck in a room to
do your homework
and i think that was really useful for
me because when you finish you’re like
okay so no stress anymore just let’s
relax
sometimes you have to do a spare like 30
minutes but
anyway that’s that’s just the day before
an exam
so now let’s talk about a universal
thing
a really important thing for me so when
where you when you are in a in your
boarding school
you meet people and they will become
really important for you and i think
they will
become like your second family and that
is really important
i did crazy me things i did i met
noah from belgium brandon from england
linus from germany
and jeff from hong kong and this thing
was even more emotionally crazy for me
because
there were people from around the world
and that was
amazing now it’s completely different
but i had to do sports because
with the amount of food that i used to
consume every day
i needed to lose weight but i gained a
lot of muscle as well with my physical
activity but
i needed to do sports so now let’s come
back to the subject
now i’m gonna tell you a bit of the bad
aspects of boarding school because yes
they exist so first one
is the fear of an everyday routine if
you wanna feel free at all time
you’re gonna know that boring school are
not adapted for everyone because
you’re basically doing the same thing
every day the time you go to bed
the food the sports your friends but
that’s not all the time a bad thing
because if you find the right activities
the right friends
the right person around you it will be
amazing
the second aspect could be taken as a
bad or secure aspect for me it was
one of my favorite because i loved it
because i don’t know it’s
it’s in my personality in the english
school system
competition is everywhere and it’s
it’s really everywhere like in theater
in lessons
in sports and that was so that was so
cool
because for example like uh every monday
morning
i was in assembly and people were
rewarded
and so like every monday morning with
the entire school
i got two prizes i got the prices of the
best tennis player
and the best international student at
speech and that could push
the students to work harder every day or
it could pass you down but for me it
paid off
and we work harder every day and some of
my friends didn’t like it but
i think it was a really useful thing for
me so now
overall i think you have to be aware
that bone in school are not adapted for
everyone
i think i explained it earlier but
that’s really important and they are
really different from each other
mine was west bucklands i think they
will recognize them
when they would watch the video and
that’s really cool but
you have to find the one that fits you
the best and that’s really important
because
like you’re alone and you are in front
of hundreds of people that you don’t
know
you gain in maturity you don’t see your
parents too often so you want to make
them proud
you want to be proud of yourself you
want to learn a new language and
you are meeting your second family
anyway
i hope those five minutes make you wish
to try it and
i remember that 14 years old boy who was
terrified to assume his mistakes in
france and now
a 17 years old boy who according to his
mom
grew up too fast thank you for listening
you