![]() Older girls were assigned to younger ones to help with bed-making and other tasks. ![]() The rising bell rang around 6:00 a.m., and we would all get dressed in our school uniforms, fix our hair and brush our teeth, make our beds (with hospital corners), tie up our mosquito netting above our beds, and line up for breakfast. Our days at Beit followed a strict routine that didn’t vary much, except on weekends. ![]() Housemothers, also called matrons, weren’t known to be particularly gentle and nurturing they were usually disciplinarians who demanded obedience to the rules. Boarding school anywhere, and in my case 1950s British-run schools, was an experience in having your daily life highly controlled and structured. My longest stint in the same boarding school was at Beit School in Choma, Zambia, where I attended for three years from 1958-1960 (ages 9-12). My dorm room was at the end to the right – out of the range of the photo. ![]() When I visited in 1992 and again in 2003, part of the building was being used for the Choma Museum and Craft Centre. The former boarding hostel at Beit School.
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