{"id":1285,"date":"2011-11-24T16:27:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T23:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2011-11-30T11:37:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T18:37:38","slug":"old-boy-spotlight-elliot-eware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/24\/old-boy-spotlight-elliot-eware\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Boy Spotlight – Elliot Eware"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m always fascinated to learn how others arrived at boarding school and what they think now looking back.\u00a0As part of my ongoing series of “interviews”, I am pleased to add fellow Pierrepont Elliott Eware.<\/p>\n

Q. What’s your name?<\/em>
\nA. Elliott Eware<\/p>\n

Q. How did you end up at Pierrepont? <\/em>
\nA.\u00a0I ended up at Pierrepont because the local comprehensive school which I was attending at the time was pretty dire so the decision was taken for me to attend a boarding with the intention that it would impart some discipline into me.<\/p>\n

Q. When were you there? How long did you stay? <\/em>
\nA. 1981-1984 so three years.<\/p>\n

Q. What was your first impression of the school? Were you scared, nervous, excited?<\/em>
\nA.\u00a0I was very nervous especially as I knew my parents couldn’t really afford it so the expectations on me were high.<\/p>\n

Q. Was the school experience what you thought it was going to be? <\/em>
\nA.\u00a0The experience I put down to this day as perhaps the best 3 years of my life as it taught me the way to be truly independent and I was exposed to peer pressure for the first time.<\/p>\n

Q. What was the most fun you had? <\/em>
\nA. The most fun at Pierrepont? Can’t really put my finger on it to be honest it was all such a lovely experience. I was thrown into an environment mixing with a bunch of guys of different religions. races and creeds where I learnt so much about life.<\/p>\n

Q. What was the least fun you had? <\/em>
\nA.\u00a0The worst experience was leaving and then going to a University which I describe as one of the lowest periods full of racist people in a depressing depraved part of town.<\/p>\n

(even though Pierrepont was in England, I ask this because I\u2019m interested in the answer, given that I spent four years in Northern Ireland during the Troubles)
\nQ. Did you feel the effects of The Troubles or what was to become The Troubles? If so, in what way? <\/em>
\nA. The troubles in Northern Ireland did not affect me at all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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