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Chiara

It isn’t at all easy to be able to say goodbye to a school, teachers and friends which you have known for twelve long years. Twelve years are an eternity. When I first entered Southlands English School, I could hardly speak a few words even in my mother-tongue language and I was wearing a nappy…
By the time I had to leave Southlands, I could be considered to be bilingual. I had achieved full levels 7 and 8 in all subjects, and I had grown from a toddler to a child, and from a child to a teenager. Southlands still represents everything that’s important to my childhood: first and greatest friendships, first crush, moments of laughter and joy, moments of tears…

But this chapter of my life is over now and time goes on. No matter how hard it may have seemed to have to accept this at first, it is thanks to the friendly atmosphere, the excellent quality of the facilities, the encouraging initiatives, the most amazing, funny, bizarre and brilliant teachers which I have found here in St. George’s, as well as extraordinary people who have become very intimate friends of mine in just a few months, that have made me realise that right when you least expect things to proceed well, the most positive conditions and opportunities can present themselves to you making your life happier than it had ever been.

It’s incredible to think of how just a few months in a different atmosphere can affect you so greatly, but it’s totally and sincerely true. St. George’s has already managed to partly change my life and my way of seeing things and wanting to go through problems and worries.

To be able to settle down in a new school after having been in another school for all my life has been an enormous personal challenge to me, and I have fulfilled it. I have realised that life goes on, and can give you the best experiences in the most unexpected moments.

St. George’s has made the most of some qualities and skills I never knew I had. It has opened me massively in my enthusiasm for sports, allowing me to also acquire very good standards. It has introduced me deeply into arts and subjects I had never cultivated before. It has made me have a view of school as a microcosm, a small yet so substantial community where a sense of brotherhood and union should be above everything else. It has made me realise what I’m worth and that once I leave I can become someone, because St. George’s will have given me an incomparable preparation and, most importantly, a luggage of unforgettable experiences.

I have not much more than three years left in this school and I intend to live them fully and as best I can because I know how much a school like St. George’s can give me.