Nepheline; A Description

[Camille]

Most of the Nepheline district is covered by a sprawling expanse of school grounds. Separate buildings have been dedicated to separate studies, just as buildings have been designated for both male, and female students to stay during the school year. Most of these students are of higher class, and an even higher percentage of these students seem to be male.

The school grounds themselves seem to be pleasant, with only a vague hint of the deep and smoggy pollution that seems to hang heavy over the rest of the city’s atmosphere.

It’s a place conducive to knowledge, with large, and vast libraries hosting sprawling book cases. These book cases host both fiction, and non fiction, though far more of the former than the latter. Memberships to this over-sized library are free to students, to encourage further studying. Though it’s hard to consider such an object free, when a student pays such a large sum of money to simply attend this school complex.

The library is wide and comfortable, offering secluded places for one to study, and more close knit regions where small groups may take to studying on their own. The carpeting is soft, and plush beneath your feet, offering the utmost of comfort, even if you can’t find a seat of your own. The room is well lit, walls lined with floor-to-ceiling windows, in order to take advantage of the natural lighting within the daytime. Bright ceiling fixtures are illuminated within the nighttime hours, though make no mistake, the library closes at nine PM, sharp.

Upon the school grounds, in addition to the library lies a small number of intimate apartment buildings. Those apartments are there for the students to stay in throughout the duration of the school year. These dormitories are small, and simplistic, the rooms compact, and efficient. There’s no kitchen area, as the students were to attend all meals within the sizeable cafeteria. The rooms within the dorms were all similarly decorated, though mildly compromise able. These rooms could be comparable to a minuscule motel room.

The school buildings are appropriately sized, and adapted to their own purposes; science buildings received labs, and art rooms received enough room for whatever creative destruction may occur.

The school is a fine place, indeed, though throughout the trying times less and less students became able to attend, let alone be able to afford attending.

A short distance from the school is a small flock of homesteads of sizeable proportions, all with large yards flanking all sides of the homes. A number of the students who attended school within this town were able to commute easily to and from their school, and homes.