The Dormitory
This is another events I experienced when I was in a boarding school back in 2000. I have lived in a Catholic Monastery Dorms for 6 months. I have experienced a lot of things in this dorm in that 6 months.
First I should share the schedules so that readers could get the feeling of how it was living in the boarding school.
Now, here's the dorm areas.
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| Ground level of the Dormitory Area |
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At the ground level there are 1 large living room, 3 smaller guest rooms, 1 office room for the head of the dorm, 1 huge dining room, 1 big pantry, 1 huge main bathroom, 1 smaller bathroom with toilets, 1 huge locker room, 1 broom cupboard, 2 stair case sides.
Started with the story about the creepy broom cupboard under the stairs at the side of the huge main bathroom, some students said they could heard voices from inside the cupboard. It is also located side by side with the only toilet that was locked and forbidden to open. They said that toilet was locked since the dorm was still used as nuns dorm, the myth is a nun died committed suicide in there, but the head of our dorm confirmed that was only a hoax.
Here is the upper level of the dorm
- Huge Bedroom
- Toilet
- Small bedrooms (5 - 6 rooms)
- Locker room
- Bath toiletries storage / clothes and towels drying hangers
- Hidden room from the past
Accessed only from inside the second floor locker room, there was a secret door that led us to this hidden 8 rooms that would be annually cleaner up, the rooms were for special nuns that used their time only for praying. Inside the room was a small bed, a sink, a toilet, and a table with a chair, and a chest. When i was in that dorm, i experienced the cleaning party. I personally think it was more like a prison.
I myself never experienced things from those places, but we (as in me and my friends) once saw the head of our dorm walked down the staircases from the monastery to our dorm while talking to her side, as if there was someone walking with her side by side, but there was no one.
Some says it was a Dutch nun, and some says that head-sister was actually talking in Dutch. It could be true because the one who said that knows Dutch since her father is a Dutch. But it could also be a lie because we (the others) don't know the language at all.
What I experienced myself was when I saw a very pale nun walking through inside our room from the main door, passing my bed, through the door to the locker room. The thing is that door to the locker room is closed and locked since it was blocked with lockers. At first I thought it was our head-sister,thought it was only my hallucination because I was between wake up and falling asleep, but then the real head-sister came in and walk through the whole bedroom while knocking soft sticks around, chanting Hail Mary prayer.
About two weeks after that, our dorm make a renovation at the Toilet (#2 on picture above) that was closed with permanent wall on its door for so many years. There was a story around about the history of the toilet. They said a nun died in there when she was sick, she died there after coughing blood and the blood stained the walls, couldn't be cleaned. So the renovation started, and just a day after the wall demolished, one of our senior that had her bed next to the toilet door fell sick. Another story came out, she said she had a dream where she saw a nun died in that toilet from aborting her baby, and that the fetus and her blood was drained in that toilet, which is why she haunts that toilet. One Saturday night when most of us were either dancing or watching TV downstairs, some students who were taking care of this senior ran downstairs, screaming, asking help from us and some ran to the monastery to get our head-sister. They said, this sick senior was sleeping when she suddenly got up and speaks gibberish, pointing at the door with wide eyed, they tried to pull her away from the toilet (the renovation hasn't finished yet), but this senior seems to be so strong no one can pull her away. She keeps banging on the toilet door that was locked.
When the head-sister came with some other nuns from the monastery, we were all told to go to the dining room and stay there until dismissed. Some seniors were told to guard us and one nun came with us to make sure we were in order. It was Saturday night, we were supposed to have fun, but instead we were told to sit in the dining room, praying Novena. I couldn't remember the time, but it took long until our head-sister came in and told us that everything will be okay from now on, we were also told to keep the toilet clean and not smelly when the we use it in the future.
Horror stories about our dorm spreads out, some got seriously scared, I was scared, but the reason why I only lived there for 6 months before moving to another dorm outside the school complex was not because of this scary experiences. It was because we could only go home once a month, every first weekend. Any kind of comic books and novels were forbidden, no gadgets are allowed to bring in. Means, no fun unless it is watching TV or listening to music and dancing on Saturday night. I couldn't adapt to it, i grew up reading encyclopedia books and comics, I spent time listening to radio or cassette tape, and I always gets ranked high in school (elementary).
After I moved in to another dorm outside the Monastery area, I could bring my handphone and spoke with mom every day, I can read books / comics when I don't feel like taking a nap, I can listen to my favorite music while studying, and my studying went well. I even ranked #1 in class. Meaning, you can't control your children, you should let them learn and study the way they feel most comfortable, even if they don't ranked as best students, you should never tell them how to live their life.
