Twingates High School (The Trip)

By Terrence D Witham

This story is about a class of girls on a summer school trip in 1983. It is centered on, particularly, three already good friends who would share the same tent at their destination, although their experience in this vacation would somewhat differ from the rest of their class (not by choice). However, it is their teacher who causes this diversion and who would feel the consequences the most.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: May 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9781543489774

Terrence D Witham

I was born in Letcombe Bassett, a small village in Berkshire (due to border changes it now comes under Oxfordshire), then at four and a half years, my family moved to Ramsgate in Kent. There I went to a private school called Ramsgate Preparatory School in Edith Road. At age twelve we moved again to Gillingham, also in kent where I still reside. I trained as an electrician, became self employed and now run my own company. Writing has always been in my bones but never seemed to find the time to get any of it off the ground. Now at last here is my first book, hope you enjoy.

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Introduction

This story is about a class of girls on a summer holiday school trip in 1983, centred on a particular three, already good friends, who would share the same tent at their destination, although their experience of this vacation would somewhat differ from the rest of their class, and not by choice. However, it is their teacher who caused this diversion, and who would feel the consequences the most.

Come and join in with the girls on their trip and enjoy some spooky and some fun moments together.

Christine, Miranda and Esmeralda were fourteen year old classmates, just three of a class of twenty four, on a coach heading through Europe to a place called Boldovia. The girls were from Twingates High School, which had been lucky enough to have been chosen to partake in a two week camping holiday in this new country, which had recently broken away from a neighbouring state, and had invited schools from several countries as a way of gaining recognition and respect from, in particular, European countries.

In all, fifteen countries had agreed to participate in this one off multi-national venture for the summer holidays, each sending several coach loads of pupils, all to be approximately the same age group from year ten.

This was indeed to be a mammoth exercise, for forty plus buses and coaches, carrying around two thousand pupils, teachers and helpers had been catered for, resulting in well over six hundred tepee style tents being required, set out in rows of a hundred, to house three persons each. Each tent was numbered and flew the appropriate countries’ flag.

The chosen site was a large grassed area surrounded by dense forest. Even with all the tents in place there was still plenty of room for the fleet of coaches etc.

It was a very large site, cleared of trees some years ago for military operations, prior to Boldovia becoming independent.

However, much work had been necessary to prepare the ground for this huge project, quite a task for a new country and its government and officials.

Dotted all around the perimeter of the clearing were dozens of portable cabins, with washing and toilet facilities, except at the far end where there stood two huge marquees, to provide the catering needs for the occasion. Inside one were row upon row of foldaway wooden tables and chairs, whilst at one end the tables were set crossways, obviously to differentiate between pupils and staff.

As there were no electricity supplies for miles around, the second marquee was the kitchen, or galley, the cooking equipment fuelled by bottled gas. There were also a number of generators scattered around the site, powering fuse boards mounted on poles, where a cable was draped across the grass to each tent, to supply just one, somewhat dim