Rex Higher Sec School

Rex Higher Sec School is up here in Ootacamund. Our address is P O 45 on St Marys Hills. Being in the hills means the air is usually cold. We get a lot of mist in the mornings. You can barely see the gate sometimes until you are right in front of it. Ooty is a beautiful place but it can be damp. The school is an old building. It fits in with the rest of the architecture around St Marys Hills. We don't have central heating so we all wear thick sweaters. The students are used to the chill. Sometimes tourists wander up this way by mistake looking for a view. We just point them back down the hill. P O 45 is where we get our mail delivered. The postman knows us well. We have a lot of trees around the property. In the winter it gets very quiet. The wind howls through the gaps in the window frames sometimes. We just put a bit of paper in the cracks to stop the draft. It’s a simple life at Rex Higher Sec School. We aren't trying to be anything other than a school in the mountains. The view from the top floor is actually quite nice when the clouds clear. You can see the town below. It’s a long walk up for some but we don't mind it. It keeps us fit I suppose.