CES Oxford is without doubt the best school I've ever been to. Being a student there for 3 months i was able to forge friendships with the staff as well as with some of the teachers. However, this is nothing compared to the number of great friends I made all over the world which not only have extremely different cultural backgrounds but also come from almost every age group one can think of.
CES is also a place where I as a student felt home and considered everyone as my second family.
Of course there are also bad things. Mostly they're called 'Fridays' because these are the days when students leave CES and go home to their schools, jobs or whatever they are leaving for. It's a hard good bye since you never you when you're going to meet anyone again. It gets even harder the longer you stay because at some point everyone who started at the same day as you already left. Also, most people who leave then started later than you did and you get aware of the fact that you literally see people come and go.
But at the same time you become incredibly happy having been given the chance to meet all these amazing new friends of yours and you start to realise that everyone left a piece of them in you. And when the day comes where you have to leave yourself you know that there will be a piece of you in the school which will stay there forever. Be it a memory of you, a story about you or a simply a tear you cried when giving a speech.'
Florian Berliat, Switzerland