it's horrible! it's like...hong kong!

[bossymarmalade]

Holy Jesus, it's the Catholic school Lori and I went to when we were wee, exactlythefuck how I remember it. We used to assemble in the yard every morning and every afternoon and then march into our classrooms for prayers.

See behind all the girls, that one little door on the bottom left of the photo? That was the bathroom. With three stalls. St. Gabriel's girls leave with bladders of IRON, man.

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[between-names.livejournal.com]

Spiffy uniforms!

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Hah! I hated those things so much. Sunday evenings were always spent ironing the five shirts I'd need for the week, plus most of my sister's because she's younger. And whitening our sneakers. Those Catholics are strict, yo. *g*

[between-names.livejournal.com]

All you need is a sash and some patches, and you'd all look like a herd of Girl Scouts or something.

I can't imagine wearing uniforms, but I think if I had a kid, I'd support him/her wearing them. Because I'm an evil beyotch like that. :D

Why do I suddenly want to read a Catholic school AU?

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

mmmmmm. A Catholic school AU would be delicious. All those grey wool slacks and ties, and blazers and books...has nobody written one yet? What's wrong with this fandom? We're falling behind! *g*

[between-names.livejournal.com]

(and to satisfy your own kinks...)

There could be a lot of dining hall scenes.

::nods::

:D

[thebitchtrolls.livejournal.com]

I believe Calico wrote one... JC/Nick, though, IIRC.

You should do one. Imagine Justin wearing the striped Eton pants!

- Lennie.

[suyari.livejournal.com]

Ahh...Catholic school. One learns the strangest things there. Always liked the uniforms though, saved me the trouble of picking out clothes. I'd still rather have a uniform...freaky or wha?

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Dude, it sort of made sense, didn't it? In Trinidad public schools had uniforms; if you went to private school, they assumed you had money enough to pay for fancy clothes. Which is the smart way to do it, I think. *g*

[suyari.livejournal.com]

I'd have to agree. I've never had many clothes to begin with, so the uniform made it all the better. Plus, there was just a whole attitude that came with it. I enjoied that the most, I think.

[chicksrus.livejournal.com]

Old Catholic school traditions, man. I, too remember the horror of those days.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

I managed to escape the wooden ruler most of the time, but I remember clearly the times that I did not. Yeowtch.

[scot-ty.livejournal.com]

I knew I loved you for a reason. Eight years at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel for me. Navy blue uniforms with white blouses. No knee socks allowed, even in winter.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

mmmmmmm, carmel. *g*

Your uniform sounds like the stupid cold-weather translation for our double-thickness box-pleated coveralls from HELL. It used to get so damn hot in those cramped little classrooms!

Nobody understands Catholic school pain like fellow sufferers. But then, that's what religion's all about, innit? Heh!

[marej.livejournal.com]

dude, i'm sure you and Lori hated it a lot, but. socute! esp. the little girl who stuck her whole fist in her mouth. sosocute!

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

aahahahah! It's good to know that we were cute, at least. Well, I mean -- we're not in that picture, but we very well could have been. I spotted a half dozen girls who could have been either of us at that age. *g*

But they made us drink from taps that ran into a trough, Mare! A TROUGH!! *weeps*

[karabou.livejournal.com]

St. Gabriel's looks like a hotel. o_O

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

It do indeed. The crappiest hotel EVAR! *g*

[chrismm.livejournal.com]

Man, I missed the uniforms by a year. I went to Catholic school for first through third grades, and just as they were getting ready to institute uniforms, my folks transferred me to public school. My folks only sent there because Grandma leaned on mom hard, HARD, dude. Mom and dad finally got a spine and told Grandma to take a hike.

I think it was a combination of the huge cost involved, and the fact I was starting to come home talking about what a bad person I was, and that drove my mom right around the bend. Especially because I was such a good girl, right up until high school, I was the best behaved kid you could ever have asked for. Mom went ballistic at the idea that I should be getting that trip at such a young age.

But at the time, I was mostly hugely excited at knowing I wouldn't have to wear the uniforms, and terrified of public school. Because everyone knows that public school kids are all bullies, and juvenile delinquents and criminals.

Yes, that was the sound of my eyes rolling so hard they almost flew out of my head.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Mom went ballistic at the idea that I should be getting that trip at such a young age.

No kidding. One of my teachers used to regularly fly into a rage and rail at the entire class for about half an hour telling us how stupid and worthless we all were before working herself up into such a frenzy that had to make us all "nap" on our desks while she calmed the hell down. mmmmmm, papist guilt.

The school system in Trinidad was flipped around in that the public schools had uniforms, and the private school kids were allowed to wear their own clothes. The theory was that public school kids weren't necessarily rich enough to have nice clothes to wear to school every day, and in a way, that kind of makes sense, doesn't it?

[chrismm.livejournal.com]

public school kids weren't necessarily rich enough to have nice clothes to wear to school every day, and in a way, that kind of makes sense, doesn't it?

Sort of, except that mom could find reasonably nice clothes for us second hand, at KMart, hand-me-downs, etc., whereas uniforms have to be bought new, and the school had chosen fairly expensive ones. Plus you need several days worth. So under those circumstances, it was kind of a hardship. And it wasn't a wealthy Catholic school--the neighborhood was pretty much lower middle class to working class to poor. So just paying for the school was a hardship for most of the families there. I don't know why they picked such expensive uniforms... Kickbacks? Family connections? I dunno.

[miafeliz.livejournal.com]

I totally feel left out. 6 years of Catholic school and we didn't have to wear uniforms at all. Of course, it was high school... maybe that's why.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

I would think they'd totally make you wear uniforms in high school! Then again, maybe they're trying to break away from that "sexy teenage Catholic schoolgirl" stereotype. *g*

[miafeliz.livejournal.com]

Hee. Well, at my high school there were really no sexy teenage Catholic school girls to begin with, ;-).

In retrospect that is a good thing since we were taught by Christian Brothers, rather than nuns. Hee. (I don't mean that to sound bad. Really.)

[thebitchtrolls.livejournal.com]

In Australia all high schools have uniforms, as far as I know. At least in Queensland. Even the state schools. We were an unsexy bunch of atheists and agnostics, we were. Dark green skirt that must go past the knees, escape from the 70s top and a tie. And ours weren't too bad, at least the colours were okay. If anything, the private schools had uglier uniforms, because they had stupid hats as well. No sexy schoolgirls of any religion in Brisbane.

Although, given some of the recent scandals, it seems that our Catholic and Anglican schoolboys are damn near irresistible. Must be the grey pants and the blazers.

- L.