First year away from home

Boarding school is a very common thing to attend as a teenager in Denmark. Over 30.000 students between 14-18 years old goes there every year. Some are attending the school for one year, while others will be there for up to three years. The schools have an educational responsibility, but most teenagers attend the schools for personal development. 170 student are going at the boarding school ‘Efterskolen ved Nyborg’. At this school all of the students are having some sort of “study line”, but for most of them this is not the primary reason, they went to boarding school. It’s for the social development, the first time experiences and the bonds created for life. I visited the school, three weeks after the students started to see how they live.