There was a lot of publicity about Dawn and Sophia their story was on the news daily and it took the police a week to find them,the man who had picked them up and taken them to his house was arrested, and when the girls were brought back to the school it was quite late in the evening and we had gone to bed,the next morning some of the other girls tried to talk to them to find out what had happened to them but we were told we were not allowed to speak to them,after a few days they were sent away to another school and no one saw them again,they were not the only girls to run away,a group of four girls tried it once and were caught hiding behind a telephone box,not too far away, after that there were bars put on all the windows so that no one could try it again by climbing out of the windows, We formed quite a lot of friendships with other girls and one day the head girl Anne had fallen out with her best friend Karen the next thing I knew I was walking into the art room which was on the top floor so didn't have any bars on it as I walked through the door I saw the tail end of Anne going through the window,she landed down outside the domestic science room and I thought she would have been really hurt but no she just got up and ran off,needless to say she was not head girl any longer as they told her that she was not a very good example to the other girls, another day the domestic science teacher was teaching us about growing herbs outside in tubs,she told Karen to take a glass water jug and go out and water the herbs as Karen went out she tripped and fell the glass jug broke and her arm was badly cut and she had to go to hospital for stitches,after that no one was allowed to walk around with glass water jugs I think they were all replaced with plastic ones, We did have some good times as well,we were allowed to have a Halloween party and we were given things to eat that were special,and we played games like pass the parcel and musical chairs and pass the matchbox under the chin,towards the end of the evening all the lights were turned out and someone who was dressed up like a witch came in with a torch and we had to guess who it was,we also had a party at Christmas minus Santa Clause as they didn't go that far, we had a carol service every year and people from outside were invited to come,we had to learn all the carols by heart as the hymn books had to be given to the visitors,I used to sing solo sometimes,which I enjoyed as I have always liked singing, but of course we always had to be very careful as the staff would find any little thing to stop some one from having a good time,we were invited to the Civil Defence college for their firework display,on the way back I just said oh my feet are freezing and one of the staff heard me so they told me that because I complained I would not be able to go to the school fireworks the following night,they thought that they were punishing me but in fact I was pleased as I hated fireworks or anything else that went bang, watch this space for next episode kind regards from Jenny Ray and doggies skype name jenny.mock97