Field Trips

Thinking about the Scholastic Book Club started me thinking about elementary school. Haven't done that in a while. But, the fieldtrips! One class trip a year which was the *highlight*. :D

Kindergarten: L.A. Zoo. I remember sitting on a curb, waiting for them to pass out the sack lunches.

1st Grade: Lion Country Safari (no longer operating). Still remember sitting in the bus with the clear instructions not to open any windows and feeling a wee bit nervous. (You drove your car through the animal habitats.)

2nd Grade: We rode a train from the L.A. station to some firehouse museum. No clue where the museum was, but I think I liked the train ride better. It was probably the first time I had been on a train.

3rd Grade: Went to Mann's/Grauman's Chinese Theater to watch Pippi Longstocking. Yeah, not very educational, but Pippi!

4th Grade: Travel Town. A boy in my class showed me a dead frog. Blech.

5th Grade: A fishing boat out at Dana Point. A boy squished a wee squid and threw it at someone and I was PISSED.

Field Trips

Thinking about the Scholastic Book Club started me thinking about elementary school. Haven't done that in a while. But, the fieldtrips! One class trip a year which was the *highlight*. :D

Kindergarten: L.A. Zoo. I remember sitting on a curb, waiting for them to pass out the sack lunches.

1st Grade: Lion Country Safari (no longer operating). Still remember sitting in the bus with the clear instructions not to open any windows and feeling a wee bit nervous. (You drove your car through the animal habitats.)

2nd Grade: We rode a train from the L.A. station to some firehouse museum. No clue where the museum was, but I think I liked the train ride better. It was probably the first time I had been on a train.

3rd Grade: Went to Mann's/Grauman's Chinese Theater to watch Pippi Longstocking. Yeah, not very educational, but Pippi!

4th Grade: Travel Town. A boy in my class showed me a dead frog. Blech.

5th Grade: A fishing boat out at Dana Point. A boy squished a wee squid and threw it at someone and I was PISSED.

HHGG

It is important to note that suddenly, and against all probability, a Sperm Whale and a bowl of petunias had been called into existance, several miles above the surface of an alien planet. Since this isn't a naturally tenable position for a whale, this innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identitity. This is what it thought, as it fell;


Ahhh! Woooh! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay okay calm down calm down get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my... well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a... tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, whats this roaring sound, wooshing past what I'm suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It'll do. Yeah, this is really exciting. I'm dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There's an awful lot of that now isn't it? And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! Thats it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello Ground!


The whale died with a horrible resounding thud. Curiously the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was, "Oh no, not again."

I've got CDs of the radio show somewhere. I really should haul those out again.

HHGG

It is important to note that suddenly, and against all probability, a Sperm Whale and a bowl of petunias had been called into existance, several miles above the surface of an alien planet. Since this isn't a naturally tenable position for a whale, this innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identitity. This is what it thought, as it fell;


Ahhh! Woooh! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay okay calm down calm down get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my... well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a... tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, whats this roaring sound, wooshing past what I'm suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It'll do. Yeah, this is really exciting. I'm dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There's an awful lot of that now isn't it? And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! Thats it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello Ground!


The whale died with a horrible resounding thud. Curiously the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was, "Oh no, not again."

I've got CDs of the radio show somewhere. I really should haul those out again.