Dear Saraswati,
Thank you so much for your letter! Of course I’d be happy to be your pen-pal and write to you from time to time. I love knowing about other cultures and would like to know all about your country and where you live.
At the moment I go to a school in the middle of the countryside here in England. It’s called St Francis’s and it is a boarding school for girls and boys. I miss my parents a lot but luckily I have my sister, Gemma, here. Maybe I’ll tell you about her in another letter.
I have many friends even though I’ve only been here a month or so. My best friends are Gillian, Kizzie and Charlotte. Our housemistress is a nice lady called Mrs Bainbridge who tells us incredible stories at night. We live in the Main Building, which is very old and full of secret passages and legends. Maybe in the next letter I’ll tell you one of them?
The headmaster here is a nice man called Mr Firmin. He likes sailing a lot and is trying to change the tennis courts into a big boating lake but nobody else seems too keen. The Head Boy and Head Girl this year are Sam and Leana They are really nice and both of them take good care of all the new pupils to make sure they settle in. We see them a lot because Sam’s mother is a famous writer and she is a friend of Miss Bainbridge.
In school I take all the usual subjects. In biology we are studying plants and cells, in English Romeo and Juliet and in geography, coastal erosion. I like all the subjects but my favourite activity is drama. This year, for the first time, I’ve got a part in the end of year play. More details to follow!
I wish I could write more but I have to go to bed now. Please write and tell me how you are. Tell me about your family and your school and what you do. Do you have any good legends in your town? Any mysteries? I like mysteries. Tell me about the weather there and what you eat. I would love to know everything.
I hope you like writing. I do!
Speak soon. Lots of love,
Athena.