adjusting to boarding school

snap
Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:11:56 +0000

Thanks for the reply zp. I guess I didn’t offer much information, but it’s not complicated at all. She is a new junior at a HADES school. Academically she’s fine, but she just hasn’t made many friends. She says all the girls are nice, but all the juniors have plenty of friends already. She says the new freshman are nice, too, but she’s always had friends her age or older, although she finds the freshman are more welcoming anyway. She is basically homesick. She just misses her loving family–pretty straghtforward, actually. The “expectation vs. reality” thread has helped me a bit. It helps just to know things aren’t perfect for everyone.

Anybody have any stories to share?