"What's the point of going abroad if you're just another tourist carted around in buses surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs from Kettering and Coventry in their cloth caps and their cardigans and their transistor radios and their Sunday Mirrors, complaining about the tea - "Oh they don't make it properly here, do they, not like at home" - and stopping at Majorcan bodegas selling fish and chips and Watney's Red Barrel and calamares and two veg and sitting in their cotton frocks squirting...

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This is it. In 72 hours, I'll be ordering my last pint of good old British ale, getting set to fly in the morning. My Dad's paid for me to stay for 3 nights in the Veronica Residence Boutique on Ratchadapisek Road, next to Suthisan station so very close to Chichester College where I will become a student once again. Apparently he wasn't too pleased with my idea of getting a cab to Ratchadapisek Road and hoping to land a nice place. It'll give me a good opportunity to explore the area and find somewhere...

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2 days of work left and 2 weeks today I begin my journey. Bought an external hard drive yesterday, 320GB, spent today filling it (well, 30GB of stuff) with all the relevent teaching materials I could find. I've got schemes of work and all resources for Science 11-18, Maths 11-16 and French 11-16 (I thought I could adapt them for English, perhaps possible with some things). I'm a genius! Now I just need to get all the stuff off my sister who teaches languages.

Was given 4400Baht by...

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Its Saturday morning, 8am. I should not be awake. The doorbell went, I was like a dog, jumping around, finding jeans, it was the postman and he always plays knock and run with my post. I got him this time though. My eyes were still all over the place, I'm still a lot hungover and I couldn't figure out where to sign.

What was this special delivery? My passport, from the Royal Thai Consulate, with stamp in it, and in tiny writing, so small my hungover eyes couldn't see it, those most...

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Motivation for my current job has gone through the floor! My year 11s all passed their course, most with a merit award, my year 10s have had their last GCSE exam and have gone on work experience, my year 12s have completed their exams and have now virtually finished all their coursework for next year, my year 9s have had their SATS exams and completed the first unit of their BTEC coursework, there really is nothing left for me to work towards.

I've now sold everything bar a few CDs....

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