Day 1 Travelling to Spain and the unconscious pleasures of air travel.

Day 1
We arrived relatively safely in Spain, I say relatively safely as I had a bit of a funny turn and passed out. I took a few minutes of a student prodding my slumped body for them to realise that I wasn’t my usual topical self. To cut a long story short, I am alive and managed to be resuscitated by Pablo and Manuela the Hospital Puerto tag team resus squad. I also managed to score a free packet of shortbread and a bottle of coke from Easy jet which I’m sure you’ll agree is a pretty fair deal considering what stingewads low cost airlines are these days.


After a long all night plane journey we decided the best course of action was to head straight for a theme park, so ignoring the hallucinations brought on by sleep deprivation I headed off to tivoli world with the students, staff and kenneth the giant pink rhino that I'd been chatting to since we landed.



here we have beaming students gleefully preparing to join the cue to Southern Spain's answer to Sundown adventure land









Here we see a cue that we spent about an hour in after being told we could get a free german sausage hot dog. With images of a Bismark sized bratwurst in mind we were happy to weather the lengthy queue time under the merciless eyes of the cruel spanish sun. I wonder if the local Spaniards noticed the tomato faced sun crisped teacher crying as he walked away with the half inch frankfurter in a bun while muttering about trade descriptions to his imaginary Rhino friend.












Yaaaaayyyyy dodgems, or more the more accurately named 'smash-them-till-their-fillings-fall-out-ems'





take one student add a gallon of fizzy drink and 3 bags of jelly tots and shake vigourously leave to simmer for 15 minutes then watch as they quizzically report that they have a tummy ache and don't know why.

Carmageddon

Its a well known fact that all NK students fear nothing , We decided to put this to the test by taking any student brave enough through the Passage of terror!

like a young Roger Moore in the Saint I adopt my most heroic pose and prepare to set the thrillometer to 11

Our first two heroes

Mrs Gallimore is cold as ice, check out the Stare on that folks.

the mysteriously familiar Mr Logan prepares to join the fray. His bobby Charlton style comb over mocks the forces of darkness.

Max the masher Rutherford leads us all to safety. he's like a 4 foot 3 version of Bear Grylls a real minature man's man, and boy can he sprint when a spanish man in a rubber mask wielding a chainsaw is behind him.

students pile onto another vomit inducing fairground ride, its always fun to see your dinner twice if you enjoyed it.

Happy tired students after a day or edutainment and teacher related medical emergencies

And that in a nutshell was our first day. buckle yourself in for more Spanish awesomosity.