What event or trip from your school years stands out the most in your memory?

A bunch of friends went and rented a ski lodge for a weekend. I was a total nerd at the time (along with a couple of others), and I didn’t ski, so a couple of us just stayed in the house and partied while everyone else went skiing…

I went on a road trip with my friends during high school. We went from South Carolina all the way to Canada and we didn’t even tell our parents. It was pretty funny! We had fun though.

150 8th graders + our nation’s capitol= what should have been a comedy movie.

I hadn’t even thought of trips that I took just with my friends. I was thinking more along the lines of field trips… but that sparks good memories for me. :)

Funny, my first memory was also going to DC for our graduation trip from the 8th grade. I couldn’t believe that my parents let me go. I felt so grown up for being able to go so far away from home with very little chaparones.
Next trip was going to Amish country. Everything was freshly made and grown there. Best icecream, chicken, bread and cherry pie, I ever ate.

What event I remember from school could not classically be called a trip per say, we never left the city. One weekend a group of teachers took the class to the gun range where we got to shoot 12 gauges, .44 magnums, .357 magnums, Colt .45s, .38s and other rifles and handguns. It was quite a day and a hoot. I still have fond memories of that day. We shot, we ate, and we had great fun.

@Pandora such a strange thought to take a trip to “Amish country,” because we don’t have to go very far from here for that. Never really occurred to me before. I felt the same way about our DC trip, actually. I think it was also 8th grade.

@Hypocrisy_Central that’s another thing that I don’t think would go over so well in today’s school system. :)

We had several ski trips to various mountains in PA, and weekend trips to Williamsburg, VA (I think this was actually a week long trip), New York City, and DC. All of them were a lot of fun.

If you ever go order the icecream with cherry pie. You will never want to eat any anywhere else. Years later and it still makes me want to get in a car and drive down there. We were given a tour of an Amish home and history of the community.

My 8th grade year, we had taken a field trip to D.C. to visit the Holocaust Museum. The bus ride was a blast, as was our time visiting other monuments. But the way things were at the museum…it stood in complete contrast. Most of the talking died down. When we did talk, it was usually in complete disbelief at some of the things we saw there. It took everything I knew about the Holocaust and blew it out of the water. It really put it all into perspective, I think, and I know that even then I couldn’t ever grasp the real horror of what went on at those camps.

Growing up just outside of DC, we had a ton of awesome field trips, including Williamsburg, a visit to the Liberty Bell, and all over DC, of course. My favorites were always for art classes, though. All of the museums, the National Zoo, and my very favorite – The Torpedo Factory Art Center. It was the coolest place, we all wanted to be there, and we were finally old enough to be allowed to wander around the city on our own during lunch.

I remember going to a seafood restaurant on the water in high school, and ice skating in 6th grade. I know we took more trips, but I can’t think of them now. I didn’t do any of those @augustlan. Now that I think about it, it does seem odd I don’t remember going to any of the smithsonians? Did you do those trips in elementary? There was one trip I missed because I got sick, to some factory, that I really wished I had not missed. For some reason I think it was a car manufacturer, but I am really not sure.

Sophomore year 4 of us blew off school in the fall to go the Morton Arboretum and just hiked every trail and climbed trees all day until it was time to go home and pretend I was at school all day. Best day of my school years ever and I am convinced why I so love the outdoors.

@JLeslie I’m pretty sure we went to the zoo and several Smithsonian museums starting in elementary school, but most of the gallery/art trips were in junior or high school, when I took art classes for my electives throughout. I think the Torpedo Factory was high school.

I moved in 5th grade, so I must have missed a lot of them. I don’t think I took art as an elective.

When the goat ate my lunch on our trip to the Portland Zoo. Yes, I was THAT kid. Miserable.

8th grade D.C. trip was a lot of fun and it certainly stands out, but the one that stands out the most was the 10th grade Europe trip. It was only a few of us and it was during Spring Break, so it moved very quickly, but it was excellent to be in so many different places with close friends. It was a lot of fun…definitely one of the best trips of my life.

Two; I went to the farm for the first time in 3rd grade, which awed the urban kid I was who lived in a two-bedroom flat! I rode my first horse and swung on the huge rope swing in the barn, jumped from it and landed in a hay loft. The smells! The wide open fields! Apple picking! I wouldn’t want to live full-time on a farm, but to visit was great fun.

The other trip was to Chicago to the Museum of Science and Industry. There’s a replica of a coal mine there and we got to see a bit of what it was like to mine coal. 6th grade, that was. Our teacher got annoyed with some of us singing The Police’s Canary in a Coal Mine, but he managed to get in not only the science of coal and metallurgy and whatnot, but some of the social history of the US regarding the late 19th century strikes.

College ski trips. We stayed in rustic dorms with no heat and were wakened in the morning by a guy from our group playing bagpipes. We sang on the bus all the way back to school.

Good – I went to London with the drama club to see The Lion King (awesome show, especially the first time you see it!) and Saturday Night Fever (not so awesome!!).

Bad – In year 7 we had an action packed camping trip to Kilve Court and I hated every second of it! I’m not an outdoorsy, action type girl and so I spent the whole time counting down the minutes until I could go home, have a warm bath and read my book!!!

When I was in college I was taking a class on Southern (US) History. The professor organized a camping trip to the South, which included Williamsburg, Thomas Jefferson’s home, Gettysburg, a bunch of historic sites and places. He cooked breakfast (great things like pancakes) at the campsites. We had lunch and dinner in restaurants, drank, hung out. We went in a big van. It was great and very memorable.

@Leanne1986 and @jca – LOL! My idea of “roughing it” is to turn off the A/C and sleep with the windows open :-p

We went to this farm one time & two incidents made the day stand out. First one was when I almost “drowned” in hay bails. I went playing in the barn & these bails were stacked almost to the ceiling.
Well, I managed somehow to fall down a crack & was rescued by a couple of mates when I was waist deep in that shit.
Second memorable moment came when the whole class needed a toilet break. All the girls were told to go pee in the farmhouse, the boys had to piss in a field!! Well as long as it’s fair, I mean no favourtism or nothing like that!!! I was shocked, I truly was.

@ucme wow! That is shocking.

@HungryGuy I hear ya!

@ucme Maybe your trip organizers were feminist, you should have come to the sooting range with us, way more fun. ;-)

@ANef_is_Enuf It was an awfully cold day too, not good!
@Hypocrisy_Central Not a feminist in sight, just a gnarly old bastard who thought he was
sergeant major material.
Oh & yeah…..shooting would have been cool as fuck!