School’s-out Forever

The girls’ school was down the road and the only time there were any mixed classes was languages. Hence taking every language possible. I took Spanish and German, and you had to take French. I was really into languages, but I never learnt anything. It just meant that I could hang out with girls.

When we had a careers talk I said I wanted to be a rock star. And that was punishable, you know, detention. I was always on fucking detention. You could save up your detention, three detentions and trade it for a cane. It bloody hurt, they used to make you bleed. Some of those teachers were sadistic.