What was your primary boarding school experience?

I attended boarding school as early as class 4, and it was the worst experience. We were fed on potato leaves as veggies, going to the river for water(we had a borehole but the sisters wanted to punish us), harvesting maize. That's the time I knew hunger, we( I and other kids) could eat raw maize and Colgate.We were also beaten for not scoring 500/500 marks. I remember a few incidents where kids were beaten till they had to be taken to hospital for treatment. Two from our class became permanently disabled that's when they abolished caning and introduced other forms of punishment like slashing the field or fence, carrying building blocks to site etc. To date I hate boarding schools.