Field Trip!

The next time I mention to you that I am going to chaperon a field trip please give me the V-8 bop on the noggin!

It was mostly fun if you don't count the school bus ride with loud children and a strict bus driver that felt the need to pull over every time it got noisy on the bus. Ummm - you really need another line of work if you can't handle the sound of an excited bus full of 5th graders on a field trip. It was still mostly fun unless you count the large amount of kids that have not been raised to respect adults (or even teachers) so they talk back to pretty much every adult that asks them to do anything. It was still mostly fun unless you count having to listen to the 5th graders in the back of the bus have a suggestive conversation with each other in front of you until you tell them that they need a new subject to discuss! It WAS downright funny when a 5th grade girl ended up educating all of the others about when a girl "gets her period and blood comes out" during our discussion about how much blood your heart pumps. She then went on to inform all of us that she had "gotten her period"! WOW - I decided that 5th grade ain't like it used to be in the 70's when we were all reading "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret?"

I really did have fun with G Man. It is always nice to see how the kids are interacting with the teachers and other students. G Man is a nice young man with pretty good manners when he remembers. I am still waiting for him to ask me what a period is but I am hoping he wasn't paying attention for that moment of TMI. We were highly entertained by our 78 year old tour guide especially when she led all of us in our 6 minutes of exercise. No one was more shocked than her when the little girl started talking about periods!


G Man and Me!


G Man's teacher - Miss P rolling down the big hill with the kids!