My Story: Field Trip

On Thursday, the fourth grade at my school was going on a field trip, and I got to go with them as a chaperone. We went to the Museum of Natural History up at the University of Utah. I had heard people talk about how cool it was since they redid it, so I was pretty excited to go. The bus ride up was kind of noisy, but I was surprised that I didn't hear any kids break out in song. I remember that being what we always did on field trips in elementary school. They had three to a seat, so it was kind of squishy, but it was fine.

When we got there, we had to pass out pencils and wristbands and get everyone in their groups. I had six kids in my group which wouldn't have been bad if they were kids that would stay together. I had a couple kids who wanted to be in other groups, so if were a little bit ahead of one group, they would lag behind to talk to their friend; or if we were a little bit behind, they wanted to move on with them. There was also one kid in my group that was always trying to move ahead and go on without us. I had to keep telling him to come back or to wait until everyone was ready to move on. Luckily, the other four were pretty good at keeping together, but I found myself counting heads at least every five minutes. The museum was really cool though. I kind of want to go back and actually look around for myself without having to worry about losing children.