School Trip Disasters

[YayBoromir!]

Since this is relevant to me atm, I thought I'd post a thread on it. Have you ever had any school trip disasters? You don't have to be at school now, but tell us about ones which happened in the past!
The worst school trip I have ever been on is to Battle Abbey, when it was absolutely pouring it down the entire day. Seriously, it didn't stop! We went outside the coach and then had to go straight back inside because our worksheets were now the equivalent of mush (well, there's something good that came out of it! lol ) It was so wet outside that we had to go into an underground room with no seating and just stand there for an hour while our history teacher lectured us...
When we got back into the coach my school skirt was so soaked it was dripping... and on the way home from being picked up, get this, our car broke down!!! :o I had to sit, shivering cold, in the back of an AA van for about half an hour, before finally getting home at about 9:00 pm!
Phew. That was an exhausting day. Worst...school trip...ever.

How about you? ;)

YB!:cool:

[Scarpinato]

We went to this local place called Darien Lake several years ago. A friend of mine was checking out some things in the gift shop, and since he didn't have any money, he stole a bunch of necklaces and stuff. Well, there was an undercover security guy in there who caught him lol He was fined like $100 and banned from the place, and he was grounded the whole summer. A few teachers had to escort him home early in the school's minivan, then about a half-hour later, we all had to leave. It was a pretty fun day though :)

[Winyaél Greenleaf]

Well, there was once we went out for a trip in a tour bus and the tour bus broke down pretty late in the middle of no where, and we had to spend the night on the bus! Our poor parents were so worried! :o

[Bonos-Girl]

when we went to rhineland in germany...we were watching TV..and a..erm...rather unsuitable film came on..if you see what i mean!! it was quite amusing really.......lol

[Winyaél Greenleaf]

unsuitable? :naughty:

[YayBoromir!]

Winyael, you were stuck in the coach for a whole night? That's terrible! Now I feel lucky! lol I would never have been able to sleep like that - probably because I would be really stressed out!
Another bad school trip we had is when we went to Reculver to study erosion ... fun... and it was so windy you couldn't open your eyes without them watering, and everyone nearly slipped over on some incredibly wet boulders we were forced to climb down... :rolleyes:

[Polly Sandybanks]

I haven't been on that many school trips. Not that I can remember anyway. Hmm.. maybe I've just forgot about them!? You seem to have had some really horrible ones though. ;)
The worst one I've had was probably when I was about 11 years old and the whole class went to a summerhouse that was owned by one of my classmates' family. Anyhow.. we had a pretty good time, but no-one could sleep because there were so many mousqitoes everywhere. Myself and my best friend (some of you will know her as Bramblerose Bunce) killed quite a few of them, the wall got all "dotted".. hmm. It wasn't near enough though. The next day we were going home again and I sat half asleep in the car. I can't sleep in a car, but I could barely stay awake either.

I went on another schooltrip when I was about 14. To Germany. We had to stay in German families (each with one German student), and that was pretty ok. It was interesting. Except for the fact that I had to sleep on the couch in that German student's room. All good.. it was a nice couch.. only, it was the couch where her HUGE dog used to sleep. He didn't like that someone else had taken his bed, so he jumped up too and I couldn't get rid of him. So I had to share this tiny couch with that huge dog, and I barely dared to move, because whenever I did he growled at me. :o

Another thing was that this girl lived in the countryside, so every morning she had to take the bus to get to school. The bus left at 7 or something, so we had to get up at 6 - 6.30. I never have a huge appetite at that time of the day, but I had to eat something.. anyway.. this first day I could only eat a tiny sandwich and drink some hot cocoa (not a good idea early in the morning). Then I got on the bus, and they drove like maniacs. There were only two empty seats too, and the German girl and her friend took them, so I had to stand. Then we had to change buses and this time I sat on the floor. Then change buses again. All the drivers drove like maniacs and I used to get a bit travel sick at times. Especially early in the mornings when I hadn't had a proper breakfast, and especially when the drivers were driving like that. I managed to hold it back until the bus stopped, but when I got off I threw up and everybody just stared at me. Not a very fun experience.

The rest of the trip was nice though. :) I usually enjoy all journeys I go on.

[Bonos-Girl]

i had an awful german exchange trip last year...my guy (i was one of 2 people to have a guy rather than a girl) was so evil....he wouldn't pay for anything. we all went to a bar and everyone else was bought a drink by their german and he made me buy all of mine...and all my lunches when everyone else got theirs bought for them...maybe he had no money but he could've at least explained...and he never talked...

[TheRingBearer]

I also have a tale to tell so gather round and make yourself comfortable...

Back in my secondary school, we had a trip to Ironbridge (i can't remember exactly where it is but it's in the sort of midlands of england. We are from the south coast so had a bus trip up there. Upon arrival we get word that the place we're staying has been completely flooded. So we could either go home and get our money back for a weeks trip or find somewhere to stay. So we carried on and ended up in Wales!
By now the time was half eleven at night so we crashed there...for three days. And because of this all the places we were arranged to see took longer to get there seeing as we were now further away. Eventually we went back to the proper place but for a bunch of 12 year olds, this was really exciting :grin:

[Bonos-Girl]

wow!! if that ahppened...i dunno what our schoolw ould do actually...but they defionitely wouldn't just carry on driving! lol

[Polly Sandybanks]

LOL :) that's funny

I've been to the Ironbridge too.. and we stayed in Wales too. That must have been pretty exciting though.. :) I think trips.. journeys.. whatever.. get much more exciting when unexpected things happen. When you can't find the right road for instance.. you get to see lots of places that you wouldn't normally see. :)

[YayBoromir!]

I'm going to Wales on Monday, for a week-long school trip!

[Bawax]

the nearest thing to a disaster on one of our school trips was when we was staying somewhere in suffolk for a week and on one of the first days we were doing orienteering, unfortunately after 4 hours of waiting for me and my best mate they sent out a search party only to find us sunbathing 2miles away from where we should have been. :grin:

i thought it was funny until the two of us had a constant guard of teachers on us for the rest of the week. lol

[Enelya]

well in 3th grade(maybe 2nd i dont remeber) we went on a trip to a science museum and this one kid wanted a soda but the machine ate his money so he started shaking it and it tipped over(not on him though) and it broke open and there were sodas rolling all over the placelol

[Polly Sandybanks]

LOL well.. he got his soda :) lol

[TheRingBearer]

Yeah when the unexpected happen, it just makes it so much more exciting and you know you'll never forget it.

[YayBoromir!]

Well, I'm heading off to Wales tomorrow, so I would like to say to everyone here at WoTR:
See you in a week! I'll miss you all! mecry
I will be back on as soon as I get home hehe

YB!:cool:

[Bonos-Girl]

have fun!!

[TheRingBearer]

See ya, have fun

[Pil]

Last year BG and I and our school went to brittany in france.....we were at this zoo.....and we lost track of time...it was time to leave...we're in the middle of the zoo and we had no IDEA how to get out....everyone was running around trying to break free from the zoo! Two girls ended up IN the monkey enclosure....seriously!!! lol We legged it back the long way cos it was the only way we knew and once we got there everyone was still in the gift shop....we needn't have ran! :huh: :p

[Bonos-Girl]

oh yeah! i'd forgotten about brittany!! it was so amusing!! lol

[Bawax]

lol actually inside the monkey enclosure? were they little cute monkeys or big "i'll bite your *** if you come into my space" ones?

i'd have paid good money to see that. :)

[Bonos-Girl]

i don't know..luckily we weren't the girls who did it!! lol

i think they were kinda in between..but monkeys are usually quite vicious....

[Bawax]

i guess it was lucky the monkeys weren't in their mating season. them girls might have found thereselves in a rather sticky situation. :elfeek:

[Bonos-Girl]

lol...that would have been so amusing!! but honestly i don't think the monkeys had time to do anything. as soon as our friends noyticed they were in the monkey enclosure they ran as fast as they could!! lol

[Winyaél Greenleaf]

Oh no!!! How on earth did they end up in the monkey's enclosure??!! :o

[Pil]

It was a kinda 'open plan' zoo! lol The monkeys were all on a little island in the middle of this mini lake and there was some decking up to the island kinda fenced off but not really...it was quite easy for some traumatised teenagers to end up with the monkeys. One monkey apparently started throwing sticks....... :o lol

[Winyaél Greenleaf]

Gosh. I'd have been terrified! :o I'm fightened of monkeys lol Reminds me of Jumanji... maybe I'm exaggerating... lol

[Little Devil]

I haven't been on a school trip for ages! In the junior school, they used to take us out all the time, but now never!
Last trip was up to London to see Stomp, which was very good, but the teacher who took us,(music teacher) she has no sense of style and dresses like a tramp, she didn't even notice that she had mismatching shoes on, how stupid, and all she did was laugh. :rolleyes:

[Winyaél Greenleaf]

maybe she thought that would do as new fashion trend. :)

[Elbereth]

The worst school trip I ever went on has to have been the Yr 9 trip to Dorset. I felt sooo ill that I barely ate anything the whole time we were there. The food was really grim and loads of people got food poisoning.
Worst of all was our room, room 13! There was a hole in the wall and triple bunk beds (one of my friends fell off of the top bunk trying to wave at some boys out of the window ;) ) and there was a dripping pipe somewhere nearby. A trapdoor in the roof was directly above the bunks and my friend opened it only to have a ladder drop down onto the bed. What was more worrying was the fact that we could see the sky through the roof!
It got better. One girl we were sharing the room with took loads of pills on the first evening for a medical condition (she didn't tell us what it was so we were just left wondering what on Earth was happening) and finished off by drinking about 1/2 a bottle of evening primrose oil! That night she had a fit. To be honest we wern't that surprised and it didn't seem that serious. We did however rather scare the teachers as we turned up in the TV room and when asked "now what are you doing here?" replied "oh, someone's having a fit".
The next evening three of us, the girl who had the fit, me and another friend of mine were excused from the evening walk because we were all feeling ill. The girl really wasn't feeling well because she managed to be sick all over the floor right between the beds. The teacher very helpfully mopped it up using my friend's bath towel!
The girl was then feeling very well and happy (the rest of us were not quite so cheerful) and to remove the sick smell she sprayed a vast quantity of perfume around the room. She didn't count on my friend being athsmatic .
I have never before been so glad to go home.

[Bonos-Girl]

in brittany......our room stank out the corridor so bad...we used up about 3 bottles of deodorent trying to get rid of the smell....on the last day when we were packing up.....we found taht the smell was caused by....wait for it...an 'air freshener'!!!
it smelled so gross it was unbelievable...