The snobby girls at the fashionable boarding school ridicule Heidi's "peasant" ways and laugh at her. But Heidi's spirits never dampen for long, because she lives for her dream to finish her studies and return to her own village in the Swiss Alps as a school teacher.The snobby girls at the fashionable boarding school ridicule Heidi's "peasant" ways and laugh at her. But Heidi's spirits never dampen for long, because she lives for her dream to finish her studies and return to her own village in the Swiss Alps as a school teacher.