School trips.

[Leekbrookgull]

Ok,so school trips have moved on abit since i went to school,but one on my lads came home college the other day asking me to sign this consent form. Sure exchange visits are common and europe trips,but New York ! Seriuos next February deposit paid. I want to go.

 

[happypig]

New York has got to be better than the Patcham Fawcett day trip to the shit-hole that is Dieppe, sole purpose of which was to buy fags and bangers and enjoy both on the coach home while the teachers slept off thier duty frees. Not a great plan really, wait until teacher is asleep, light up a smoke, then let off a banger : f***ing great boom, driver shat himself and nearly crashed, teachers (I forget who) wake up shouting "f***ing hell", see/smell the smoke and start demanding to know who's smoking.

I don't recall there being a trip the following year...

 

[pasty]

Spent a week in Ypres as part of my O-level history course. Spent most of our time visiting war cemetaries.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

We always used to go to that poxy semen-t factory at Upper Beeding, the one persues or whatever his name is recommended for a stadium site. Has anyone seen it lately? It looks like Scooby Doo's house.

 

[CHAPPERS]

I went to Alaska on a school trip for 3 weeks. True story.

Was meant to go to Russia too but that fell through when Aeroflot planes started falling out of the sky.

 

[Tesco in Disguise]

i went to new york as part of my school "economics trip".

didn't do much economics tho.

 

[Marty McFly]

I went to St Petersburg as part of a college trip. I had an amazing time.

 

[Uncle C]

My mum used to tell me going to Tescos was a school trip.

 

[Don Quixote]

I went to Russia for "History" though all we did was get drunk...

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Does/did everyone (apart from danny) go to fee paying schools? How come you all got quality trips? The best we got was a week in france on language exchange(except we didn't because no one wanted to go...).

 

[Tubby Mondays]

My form visited a nunnery in Sayers Common then a synagogue in Hove when we were in the 3rd form and due the behaviour of some of the scholars I never went on a school trip again.

 

[Easy 10]

New York ?
Alaska ?
Pah. We went to Dungeness nuclear power station.

Lifechanging.

 

[beorhthelm]

what exactly is going to be learnt from a trip to New York? Nice jolly for the teachers methinks.

 

[withdeanwombat]

Mr Pope took uson school camp to a field near Swanage.It was full of turkeys,so a bit like New York.

 

[Stat Brother]

Spent a week in Ypres as part of my O-level history course. Spent most of our time visiting war cemetaries.

I did a similar thing, in the low countries, notable events were a champagne factory in Rheims (sp) and some underground caven.

But as for visiting the cemetaries, that was tough, and certainly has stayed with me for the last 25 years.

 

[shoreham moonraker]

Me and 5 mates each made some consent forms and got each others parents to sign it, pretending we were going on a 5 day trip to Tenby in South Wales.

Glastonbury festival was calling

 

[GNF on Tour]

In 1982 I was booked to go on a cruise of the Baltic with about 300 other schoolkids, then the Falklands war broke out and our boat, SS Uganda was requisitioned as a hospital ship!
I was actually quite chuffed, not about the war but because I got 2 weeks in the South of France instead!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Hmmm, at secondary school, I went skiing in Italy, kayaking in the Ardeche, and on day trips to Chessington World of Adventures, Blacklands Farm and no doubt some ejucashunal trips that I've forgotten.

At primary school, we went to Scarborough and Ilfracombe for a week at a time, to the shitty and unfailingly disappointing Mary Rose in Portsmouth, and of course (as is standard for EVERY Sussex schoolchild) to the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum.

 

[seagullsoverlincoln]

New York has got to be better than the Patcham Fawcett day trip to the shit-hole that is Dieppe, sole purpose of which was to buy fags and bangers and enjoy both on the coach home while the teachers slept off thier duty frees. Not a great plan really, wait until teacher is asleep, light up a smoke, then let off a banger : f***ing great boom, driver shat himself and nearly crashed, teachers (I forget who) wake up shouting "f***ing hell", see/smell the smoke and start demanding to know who's smoking.

I don't recall there being a trip the following year...

very similar to brighton grammer trip to dieppe in the early seventies,exept
the bangers were thrown on the deck of the ship-the captain of the ship
got the arsehole on and confined us to certain areas after that

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Hmmm, at secondary school, I went skiing in Italy, kayaking in the Ardeche, and on day trips to Chessington World of Adventures, Blacklands Farm and no doubt some ejucashunal trips that I've forgotten.

At primary school, we went to Scarborough and Ilfracombe for a week at a time, to the shitty and unfailingly disappointing Mary Rose in Portsmouth, and of course (as is standard for EVERY Sussex schoolchild) to the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum.

Downlands?