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Jan
9
This morning at 6am I dropped my 13 year old off for a band trip. He qualified for the district band, so they’re traveling 2 hours away, spending today and part of tomorrow rehearsing then performing tomorrow afternoon. It’s his first overnight school trip.
I’m very excited for him and proud that he made it on the district band. But he’s going away! For a whole day!
He’s actually been away before, at summer camp. I always worry about the responsibility part. Getting themselves where they need to be on time, without leaving any valuables behind. Forgetting or losing his money. But it never fails to amaze me how responsible and mature he can be when he has to be. So I know he’ll be fine. And he’ll never learn if he doesn’t get the chance to try.
But don’t we all remember these school trips? Maybe it was just my school, and I know it wasn’t 7th grade, but sometimes those trips get a bit out of control. Hopefully it wasn’t just my school. As a kid I loved those trips, especially since I was from a tiny town so getting to go anywhere was huge. As a mom, I’m scratching my head asking where in the heck were our chaperones.
I don’t want to give the wrong impression. I lived in a tiny town and compared to kids today, or even to city kids back then, I had a pretty sheltered life and a fairly tame social life. But still, teenagers will be teenagers. I am not ready for that!
I keep saying I’m not ready for a teenager, but no one asked my permission and here I am anyway. With a teenager. And he’s gone until we pick him up tomorrow afternoon. I might be anxious for him, except that the thought of not having my 2 boys fighting with each other tonight is so appealing to me. I might be able to get used to these school trips.
What were your school trips like, in junior high and high school? Share the fun memories.
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Linda Stewart on January 9th, 2009 7:09 pm
When I was in the 8th grade we got to go as a class to Raleigh, NC which is our state Capitol. I had never been away from home and had never spent the night in a hotel so it was an interesting trip all the way around. On our way home we stopped at the state zoo in Asheboro NC for a few hours. What we didn’t realize is that we were there during ‘Zebra season’ so you can imagine the reaction of our teachers and chaperons when we came to the Zebra exhibit and there were Zebra’s ‘mating in the wild’. We all left the Zoo’s giftshop with ‘Zebra Zone’ bumper stickers.
My senior year in high school I was part of a large group that got to go to Washington DC. Another fun, interesting, and memory filled field trip.
Sheri on January 12th, 2009 3:35 pm
Linda, my senior class went to Washington DC, too. For a group of kids from such a tiny midwestern town, it was the trip of a lifetime. My sons school actually does a trip to NYC and DC for the 7th and 8th graders. Back when I went we raised the money to go as a class, but now the parents pay so we couldn’t send him. I kind of think they might appreciate it more when they’re a little older, though.