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I arrived at the boarding school when I was in sixth grade. At that time, we slept in the dorm. There were poles between the beds to hang curtains every morning while we got dressed. We used to go fill our basins with water for washing up. At night, everyone had to go to bed at the same time, but there was a period for reading before the lights went off. The nun in charge of the dormitory would read us a story like 'Little Women.' This was a moment of relaxation. There were forty of us in the same room, and we slept in iron beds that creaked a little. It was hard to sleep if anybody had the flu or a bad cough. I put up with this for two years. Then, I was transferred to a new section where there were alcoves in the dorm. Our beds were surrounded by three walls and a curtain. This was different, we had more privacy. Then in the third year of secondary school, we had the right to a bedroom.

Lucie Morinville
Student at CMI from 1965 to 1975