Kim P & Mason A
"We got breaks. We were actually on a ski trip on Christmas vacation right before I came here." Of course that trip had been for the whole school, not a break with family like most human kids got. Many dhampir kids rarely if ever saw their parents, especially if their mothers were serving as guardians. They were raised by the academy from a young age. Mason's mother had a normal human job, so he went home to see her a couple times a year, and was much closer to her than most dhampir children.
"Our school was half-day academics, and then half-day training in...other fields. That's when we did the body guard training, for those of us on that track." The Moroi kids practiced their elemental magic while the dhampirs were learning combat skills, but he didn't know if it was safe to mention that.