I stayed there four years.

I was not clever at my studies, and especially the English language was very difficult for me.

Even until now I remember a lesson in English which was so hard for me that I was punished twice for it, and I could not learn it.
Now it will make me laugh to think of these few words, which I could not translate into Arabic: "The hen is in the yard." My mind was more at play than at learning.

I was very clever at housework, and at dressing dolls, and was always the leader in all games.

From that you can see that I was not a very good girl at school.