The first week is done, lots more school and planning, met the Head of History - Mike Matthews, and my other Geographer, Nick Georgiou. They are both very nice, I think I am going to like working with them.I have also been given two other teachers, Jo and Felicity, neither has taught Geography before, but both are keen and I think will survive Yr7 and Yr9. The school is split up into four houses, I am a green Crocodile, and it looks like we never win anything....

You'll remember that we had a medical today, we weren't allowed to eat or drink for 12 hours and the first thing they ask for is a urine sample. You might like to know the outcomes - I have grown 3 centimetres, now 174cm and yes I stood properly (no tip toes), my heart and lungs are not abnormally sized and I don't have TB (Chest x-ray), my blood pressure is fine, my collar bone isn't broken (no idea why he prodded there), my bra wire doesn't have a pulse (not t...

School today, decided to taxi in (cost 40baht, 70p), as we had to look good for our licence photos, you know I can't spoil the bird's nest. Very brief session about the school, we have to complete 9 modules of the Thai teaching licence run by the Thai government, apparently you can fail it - no one told me this, must pay attention, no more sleeping in class for me. Had a quick tour, now I am after answers here.Is it only me or do schools always choose to put t...

Woke up about 6.30 thinking Ditchingham Close had suddenly got very noisy and that we were having a heat wave.Opened my eyes properly and realised where I was in BANGKOK!!!! Got up and had the doughnuts that Dad had given me at Heathrow, Thanks Dad.Good start, went to check out my kitchen, only to realise I have a sink, a fridge, a microwave and a 70's retro design water heater (they might call it a very big kettle).That's right no cooking facilities, how am I ...

Travelling is never easy, but I thought I had started to perfect it, I can pack for a month in the rainforest, 2 weeks working on a cruise ship, two consecutive weeks skiing to completely different continents, but about 11pm on Thursday it became clear that I could not pack to move round the planet for two years.I had packed and repacked, but my essential list still came to two large bags (baggage allowance one).So we arrived at Heathrow and I went to plead my ca...