1999
Diary for December
1st December
The Christmas month. The last month of the millennium. The beginning of
winter... but all that seems very far away at the moment as I sit out on
the roof, watching the sun set as the cooler evening air causes the pages
of my open book to gently flutter. I can just about hear young Master
Earls next door practising "Unmistakable you" on the piano as
the sound of children playing in the distance adds to the relaxed summery
feel. 24 shopping days to Christmas!
2nd December
Interesting day today. At lunchtime one year 8 class had set up an
amusement arcade in their classroom to raise money for charity. They had
one of those dance machines I mentioned in the October diary. I challenged
our pupil superstar Anan to a dance competition. The machine scored my
effort as an "E" while Anan scored an easy "A". I
suppose I should stick to the maths books!
This evening I'm off back to school to see the "Millennium Spectacular" concert. Should be good.
3rd - 6th December
PHUKET 
PI PI
KRABI
TRANG
Found the location for
the (soon to released film) The
Beach. (see above)
Click the small picture to see the full sized version.
7th December
Received another misdirected email:
Good Morning to All. Frost on the pumpkins this morning in N.S.B. At least it gets us in the mood for Xmas. Sandy, hope you are feeling better. How is your rash Jeremy ? This is so cool to be doing this ! Tim, got the job. We are both happy about it. He starts Dec. 17th . Works Fri.- Mon. 8:30 -6:30 10 Hr Days. Has Tue.-Thur. off. No more 4:00 mornings!
Merry Xmas!! Bye for now
Well I hope Jeremy's rash is
getting better too!
8th December
The Sahotas are off to India!
We are flying out to India next week Friday on the 10th to record the video for "Gal Bangae" in Mumbai, we are staying there for about 10 days, it may be extended. The boy's are looking forward to going, getting away from this
freezing cold country.
9th December
There's not much evidence of Christmas around this area so I think I've overcompensated. Each morning we have a Christmas story (funny) read out in registration.. I found some great ones at:
http://www.night.net/christmas/poems12.html-ssi
Also I've bought a Xmas tree, a white one, to create a bit of a Christmas atmosphere in the house.
10th December
Saw the Lights put up for the King's Birthday celebrations. Increadible. Like Blackpool with double vision. Then saw the latest Jame Bond film ... very good ... but I'd have been just as happy if it had of finished half an hour earlier.
11th December
Really getting into the Christmas spirit now. Lights on the tree and Heart FM playing live throughout the house from the internet. Lots of Christmassy tunes and adverts ... even though they do keep saying that it is seven hours earlier!
Heart
100.7 - 100.7 FM
(Birmingham) - Live
Feed
(Media Player)
12th December
13th - 17th December
School residential trip to Kanchanaburi
(Bridge on the river Kwai)
Monday
8:30 Buses leave BPS
(Bangkok Patana School)
12:30 Buses arrive at hotel
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Year Group Meeting
3:00 Boats to Lawa Caves
5:30 Return to hotel
6:30 Dinner
7:30 Evening activities
9:00 Supper / Ready for bed
9:30 Lights out
Tuesday
7:00 Wake up!
7:30 Breakfast
8:30 Year Group Meeting
8:45 Bus to Erawan Falls
9:45 Arrive at Erawan Falls
Packed lunch at Falls
1:30 Bus to hotel
2:30 Pool activities
6:30 Dinner
7:30 Evening Activities
9:00 Supper/ Ready for bed
9:30 Lights out
Wednesday
7:00 Wake up!
7:30 Breakfast
8:30 Year Group Meeting
8:45 Bus to Prasat Muang Singh
9:45 Arrive Prasat Muang Singh
10:45 Bus to Tha Kilen Station
11:15 Train to Nam Tok
12:30 Bus from Nam Tok to hotel
1:30 Lunch at hotel
3:00 Bus to Hellfire Pass
3:15 Arrive Hellfire Pass
5:00 Bus to hotel
6:30 Dinner
7:30 Evening Activities
9:00 Supper / Ready for bed
9:30 Lights out
Thursday
7:00 Wake up!
7:30 Breakfast
8:30 Year Group Meeting
8:45 Obstacle course
12:00 Bus to Kanchanaburi
1:30 Lunch at floating restaurant
2:30 Visit the Bridge
3:00 Bus to Jeath museum
3:15 Jeath Museum
4:00 Bus to Don Rak cemetery
4:45 Bus to hotel
6:30 Dinner
7:30 Evening Activities
9:00 Supper / Ready for bed
9:30 Lights out
Friday
7:00 Wake up!
7:30 Breakfast
8:30 Year Group Meeting
8:45 Preparation for departure
9:30 Bus back to BPS
1:30 Arrive BPS
22nd December till 2nd January 2000
Back in England for Christmas
For all the mathematical readers.... what does this expression mean?