Board and never be bored Jan. 18th

In my experience, a common phrase heard around boarding schools is,"Never a dull moment!" Sometimes , as is the case in parenting, the utterance is born out of frustration or exasperation, but, so much of the time it is rooted in the exhilaration that we feel when we are around energy and creativity, and things are happening! At heart, most of us like being busy because (a) it keeps our minds from drifting endlessly into self-analysis and worrying, and (b) it makes us all appreciate the non-busy parts even more acutely. There must be contrast for us to savour the full flavour of anything.

The sheer joy of boarding schools is that the passions that I talked about last week when harnessed to the creativity, intelligence and talents that abound in an educational establishment , can produce so many thoroughly absorbing moments and experiences. The key piece, however, is creating the windows of time for it all to happen and when you "live" your school as we do here, that can happen so much more. That's why, we always have something to do and we rarely have time to be bored!