Life at the British School brought many conversations with brilliant people, sometimes over long dinners, or struck up in the courtyard, and they were regularly engaging and searching. Time appears stretched at the BSR. The sounding of the bell at set times during the day has a slightly institutionalising effect, and the days tumble into one, but then often the things one sees and experiences in between those bells when out in the city (and beyond) are filled with slow-motion significance.

— Damien Meade