Womble wrote:
Ganondox - your school sounds good and sounds as though you enjoy it, which is the main thing.
Do you find it difficult being around peers who are "wealthier"? The local group I'm in at the moment is very wealthy. To give an example my neighbours house is on the market for 3.5 million pounds and it's not even semi-detached, let alone detached. Which is pretty standard in most parts of London. I've lived in rich areas of London before, but they were in Central London, so there was always a mixture of people around and I was at uni so it didn't matter, because I had a few state school friends. But where I live now, I've only met one person a similar age to me, who doesn't have children or a husband, and that was only a month ago. I've lived here for 6 years! So I actually find the time of life issue more difficult i.e. none of my local friends can meet in the evenings because they have to help their children with homework, make tea (that means dinner BTW) and get them ready for bed. I have a couple of friends who are older and their children are adults now, but they are past the "lets hang out and eat pizza and watch a film/movie" stage of life. I never realised that this was a stage of life as I haven't got past it yet!
Okay, I'm waffling now. TTFN (ta ta for now)
There isn't really any conflict based on money here, which I heard is one major difference between the culture at this school compared to the international schools in other Latin American countries. The only time where money is ever an issue is when issues directly relating to money. There is this one math competion in the US at Harvard and I'm pretty much the only student in the school who can solve any of the problems, but I can't go as the trip is too expensive, and several people are somewhat disappointed that I cannot go. Another problem arose when the class council started asking for a monthly fee to cover prom, but it's really more for the alcohol served at after prom. The fee that was settled on isn't too much for me, but I refused to pay it as 1. I'm going to leave this school before prom 2. I morally refuse to do this as I do not want my money being spent own alcholol 3. I find it hard to ask my parents for money, and knowing my mom she might become enraged for the previous two reasons 4. Several people are trying to raise the fee to more than ten times as much, which is far to much for me. I some times have to beg for money for lunch from friends as I ran out of money and I forgot to ask my parents for more, and the only way I can justify me doing this with myself is by reminding myself that I'm poorer than them.
03 Nov 2011, 3:02 pm
