I go to school at Sacred Heart Girls Elementary School. There is also a boys elementary school, and both the girls and boys go together at the high school. There are the first eight grades, and then the high school goes from ninth to twelfth.

Our school is taught by Dominican Sisters, and we do not have any lay teachers because the Convent is also a teachers' college where the Sisters learn how to teach school. This means that you can't get away with anything, because everything that happens in school gets turned into an example. I hardly ever get in trouble in school, except if I'm caught talking in class. But since they move Terry and me away from
each other, I haven't been talking much, either.

The girls school is in a building that used to be the Convent school, and looks really cool because it's old and almost like a museum (the boys' school is newer, and doesn't look as nice at all). The outside walls are these dark gray rocks with plants growing up the sides. We have these tall windows with a lot of trees outside that are nice to look at when class gets boring (until you get caught not looking at the blackboard).

Grades one to four are downstairs, and five to eight are upstairs. There are two rooms for every class, and the room numbers are the grade with a letter. I'm in room 6A, and there are twenty-four other kids in our room. We sit in six rows of four desks each. Room 6B has just eighteen kids. A lot of times we have contests between the rooms. We do the best when it's about reading, spelling, writing, music and art. They do the best when it's about geography, history, arithmetic and science. We do the same when it's about Religion.

Our school uniform is a red and gray plaid jumper with pleats, a
white blouse with a round collar, white knee socks and black or brown shoes that can't be tennis shoes. We also have red pullover sweaters, both vests and long sleeves, depending on the weather. Our school emblem is on the jumpers and both sweaters. And for church or field trips we wear red and gray plaid beanies, probably so that the Sisters can always tell where we are.