My Boarding School Blog

When she was young, actress Sienna Miller begged her parents to send her to a boarding school. She says, “…as soon as I got there, I was terribly homesick, and it was tough.

“But I stuck it out, and after a month of being miserable, I started to love it. I had the best time there.”

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The streets, as any drug dealer knows, are not always safe for doing business.   Buyers and sellers need to be on the look-out for the law. As for teenage drug users, they need to keep their habits under wraps. This need for secrecy has resulted in a blossoming of various codes to replace the word ‘cocaine’.

 Here are a few: 

Angie

Barbs

Aunt Nora

Base

Batman

Bernice

While police authorities may be familiar with these terms, parents are ofter clueless when teenage drug users use them when talking to their peers.

For a fuller list of street slang for cocaine, click here.

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“I wish we could be ‘best friends.’ Would you have me for yours? You’re clever, and I’m the stupidest child in the school, but I– oh, I do so like you!”

“I’m glad of that,” said Sara. “It makes you thankful when you are liked. Yes. We will be friends. And I’ll tell you what”– a sudden gleam lighting her face–”I can help you with your French lessons.”

–A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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