Can you remember any experiences from school trips?

In the aftermath of my 8 year old son's disasterous school trip I was reminising with friends about my own school trip experiences.

When I was 9 I went to the Frank Chapman Centre in Bewdley with the school for 5 days. I remember the one boy Jimmy coing down to breakfast with all his clothes on - 7 pairs of everything because his Mom usually decided what he was wearing! On one of our nature walks Firkanda got a big tree trunk and knocked me out with it! You could guarantee that it was me in the way couldn't you!

When I was 13 I went to Austria - met my 1st love which I told you about in another thread! We went a trip up the top of a mountain and got into a World War 3 with a German school - they attacked us with snowball missiles with stones in them. I remember our teacher saying "Show restraint - we are British!" then one hit him and he said "Ok - you have my permission - get them!"

I also went to Ingestre Hall - it is a big stately home on Staffordshire owned by Sandwell Council. I went twice at 13 and 14 - I absolutely loved it there! We did arts weeks there - you could choose art, drama or music. I chose art and created a piece of work on a big wooden board. On the last day we displayed all our work to the others - the music people played their composition, the drama people the play they created and the art people their paintings. We sat under our work which were displays on top of chairs on top of tables. When the teacher came to mine he said "This is a smashing piece of work" and at that moment it fell off the chair on to my head! With all the smashes over the head I have had no wonder I have turned out like this!

In 6th grade we went to a place called PEEC in the Pocono Mountians! It was three days of learning about the enviorment and surivial skills!  We had to do a blind hike thru the woods at nighttime!! SO much fun!

Then in 11th grade my enviromental science class took a trip to Cape Cod Mass for a whale watching trip!! That was three days too!! Had the best bus trip!! Met one of my highschool boyfriends on that trip!!

I remember going to an science museum, an dthey had an invisible lady there and all the guys started giggling when she said "these are my breast"...form them I feel my baby..such is about learning the female body.

I remember being in High School when the student body President sat behind me and she had an long string of POP beads (necklace) and she had swung them around the back of her to the front to th front of her, and caught me around my neck, and we were all laughing, and the teacher said.."She propbably catches her guys that way also maybe?"..and in walk another teacher and said President Kennedy has just been shot... and she burst out in tear... then they announced on it the school intercom. That wasn't really an trip to somewhere, but it was in history.

I remember we all had to go to an dairy one time because the teacher asked me where we got milk from and being an "city  gal" I said..from the carton..she said NO..then I said meekly ....from the strore?...that did it... off to the dairy. I think  was in the first grade that year.

When I was 15 and a sophomore in high school, our class went on a field trip to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.  There were 3 school chaperones - a young female teacher, a very stuffy and studious physical science teacher, and a crusty old basketball coach who taught boys PE.  The divvied us kid up into 3 groups and off we went into the museum.  Those of us with the female teacher got to leisurely stroll thru the museum, looking at whatever we wanted as long as we stayed in the same general area.  The kids with the science teacher had the worst time - they got stuck listening to all his boring lectures about rocks and minerals, mostly.  The kids with the PE teacher left the museum and took the subway to Madison Square Garden, and a bunch of the boys got busted by the transit cops for smoking cigars on the train. 

I also went to Ingestre Hall - it is a big stately home on Staffordshire owned by Sandwell Council. I went twice at 13 and 14 - I absolutely loved it there!

 I went to Ingestre too, Stephanie; I was in the school choir and we didn't sleep a wink all night, we had midnight feasts and pillow fights and talked and talked all night.  We were in trouble in the morning for being too tired to concentrate.  Oh, happy days!

We went to the USAF Academy and stuck my head inside to have a look at John Glenn's Mercury spacescraft, Friendship 7 and thinking how tiny it really was.

In Feb 1962, John Glenn became the first astronaut to orbit the earth---and with a Minolta Hi Matic compact camera secreted aboard, took the world's first photos from space as well.

Back when I was in junior school we went on a trip to the Isle of Man, It was so cool.

And in 1981, I went on a school trip to Brittany for a week (happy days).