Some things make such big impressions on you when you’re a kid, that they stay forever. For me, the word lacrosse means much more than the name of the sport played with a stick that holds a net and a rubber ball. For me, lacrosse is the sport that Pat and Isabel O’Sullivan, the main characters of the Enid Blyton’s St. Claire’s series, played with their friends from their new boarding school.

Like myself, Pat and Isabel came from a school that had field hockey as the main sport, so it was very shocking for me, as a 10 year old girl, to see that my heroines were forced to move to St. Claire’s, where field hockey wasn’t in the featured activities, but had lacrosse as their official sport.

After reading the word lacrosse I just felt a big echo in my head. I was absolutely clueless about it, and I still had to picture the twins playing. I ended up searching in the old library of my school for lacrosse books, looking for pictures that could give me an idea of the lacrosse racket, and after a lot of research, I got a slight picture of what lacrosse was.

But just now, watching Kudda’s coach Diane teaching the girls how to play lacrosse, I get the exact idea of what Pat and Isabel went through when they moved to St. Claire’s.