If you have not read the previous post, please do. It is so bad it’s good. -Nam
After I enter the school, the teacher takes us down to the media center to return the school computers we got at the beginning of the year.
“Are there any kids with broken Chromebooks?”, the teacher asks.
Several kids raise their hands, and are sent to the back of the line. Many of those kids look really sad. Perhaps it is because they’ll get charged. Or maybe they ate a bad burrito.
I really want the computer returning to finish so we can go on the field trip. “Hey Andrew,” I say. “How’d you break your Chromebook?”
Andrew does not respond, probably because he is still upset about the broken computer.
After the computer returning, we get on the bust. The teacher had said the lunches we brought would be stored in coolers, but the were tossed into a laundry basket. A laundry basket is nothing like a cooler. My McDonalds bag sat pitifully inside.
“Okay,” said the teacher. “Form a line.”
The rush of kids hurrying toward the door is unsettling. Miraculously, I am first in line. And what a bummer that turned out to be. I had to hold the door open for everybody else. We are split into four groups. My group was Andrew, Brady, Dane, Nicole, Kasim, Chloe, Brianna, me, and anybody else I forgot to mention.
We get on the bus, and I sit next to Brady. Andrew sits next to Dane in the seats behind us.
“The bus for ski club was way better than this bus,” I tell Brady.
“Yeah,” is his response.
And off we went. The forest we were heading to was only a few minutes away, so it didn’t take long. As soon as the bus doors opened, all the kids spilled out. It was as if someone had popped the cork off a champagne bottle and its contents came spilling out. Actually, that sounds a little wrong.
We began walking down the sidewalk. On my right, Nicole is walking with her new best friend, Kasim.
Nicole says, “Kasim is my best friend,” which I find crazy since they met three minutes ago.
So I say, “That’s crazy. You met three minutes ago.”
Nicole laughs that weird laugh of hers, and walks off. Kasim is a pretty cool dude, but he has somehow sunk as low as to hanging out with Nicole. Everyone knows Nicole is a bit out there.
While Andrew, Brady, Dane and I joke around, the teachers talk about setting good examples and all that. I don’t listen at all.
We enter the main building, and I admit, it looks pretty cool. There’s a model of the cit in the middle of the room, and a giant TV screen on the wall. We go inside the conference room, and that’s where I see this guy that looks like he’s in his thirties.
After we all settle down, the guy speaks up. “My name is Matt,” he starts off. Then he says some other boring things I don’t remember. He then introduces the other naturalists. After that, we get kicked off to our “stations”. Our first station is with Matt, so I guess this should be fun. I was wrong.