Dear Arundel,
I have taken it
upon myself to thank you for the five years of struggle, labour and oppression
that have molded me and many other students into respectable and nearly, fine
“ladies.”
Our volatile
relationship began when I first stepped on your lush, green grounds in the
chaotic year of 2008. I, a naïve chubby eleven year old, was deceived by your
excellent use of propaganda,
appropriately used for your Open Day.
Thank you Arundel,
for making our lives five times quicker by limiting the different hairstyles,
and choices of hair colour. Your legislation of anti- hair expression laws have
benefitted in making us uniform and plain in comparison to our Chizi and
Helenic counterparts. I would also like to thank you for the dull and
unimaginative colour palate of our uniform. The harsh, hideous brown blazer
makes a striking and sharp contrast to the slick blue of the Helenic and
Peterhouse uniform. In effect, we come across as distractingly unique.
Another thing to give
gratitude to is your commitment in depriving us of our cellphones during lesson
time. You deprive us of the amusement and delight that a cellphone provides.
This has the positive outcome of forcing students to concentrate in class,
living through an agonizing lesson filled with boredom- and no Whatsapp.
Many students can
be grateful for Arundel’s success in altering the diets of many individuals.
The meagre amounts of food we receive at lunch has taught us to eat less than
what we ought to, assisting in helping students like myself who are on a Weight
Watches diet plan.
Lastly, you have
succeeded in oppressing us with cart loads of work and tests after tests,
forcing us to deprive ourselves of indulgencies like TV, videogames and the
internet. The couch potato in us has been purged. We automatically “Woman-up,”
taking it upon ourselves to do the work diligently and on time. Well, we try.
When I leave your
exceptional institution, I will be grateful to know that I was transformed into
a full fledged Arundel lady. At least I hope so.
Best regards
An Arundel student
R. E. Mandiveyi
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