大象传媒

I went to school, or started school just before my fifth birthday, but of course I wouldn鈥檛 have known English at all. I spoke all in patois as did most of the other children in the area. We lived at the Bas Courtils in St Saviours, but went to school at the Trepied at St Saviours. Our teacher was then a Miss Pearl Blondel. She had the job of teaching us, or trying to teach us English before we started proper lessons.

My days at school were very happy, and I enjoyed it. We had to walk quite a long way, and certainly past St Saviours Church and all the tunnels underneath. We鈥檇 have been quite used to seeing dozens and dozens of Germans every day. The other thing we did on the way to school was collect wood and pine cones, especially by St Saviours Church, a place called Sous L鈥橢glise. We used to gather them and take them to school and the teacher would collect them up, and in the wintertime they would help to go into a boiler for fuel and to keep us warm.

We walked to school, which was probably almost two miles I should say. We walked every day, winter and summer. We met other children, other girls on the way, and by the time we got to the last half mile, there were probably five of us.
MARGARET LE CRAS

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