Social Science Really crap school excursions

[Dont be a lemon]

One year we went and the resident radge in the class (the mad kid when ends up in jail) brought a can of Mortein and started spraying all the butterflies before being wrestled to the ground by zoo keepers.

That's terrible but quite funny

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

That's terrible but quite funny

Yea. The kid who did also used to set a lot of fires.

 

[hirdy_is_champ]

I went to two schools, a state school for primary, private school for secondary, and the state school by far and away organised the better camps. Apart from one, where we went to Lancefield (no idea why) in grade 4. One of the boys apperently found condoms in his cabin, I found a timeout in my bed (nothing compared to what he found but its still odd. They gave us plates not much bigger than saucers for our meals.

Another camp in year 7 at the private school was at this place called Jungai, the place was realtively clean and everything, the food wasn't much chop, which is normal, but the strange thing was every table had to put their left overs in a bucket and the bucket was weighed. I really have no idea why, but it was fone in front of everyone. I think the place may have been burnt down because it was in the Marysville/Lake Mountain vicinity.
They also had a law suit against them because they let some kid o nthe water slide when it wasn't safe and the kid got an injury that caused them to miss a term of school.

 

[Brad Goodman]

Only really bad excursion was one of those geography ones where you go and look at mangroves and eco-systems and whatnot.

Year 11 trip to the County Court was alright - one of the cases being heard involved a stripper with massive norgs so needless to say most of the boys sat in on that case.

 

[Eugoogoolizer]

Last year in year 10 I went on a legal studies excursion to Barwon prison.
Got to speak to some of the prisoners.
It was probably the best excursion I've been on.

Cant tell you how many times I've been to science works however.

 

[chargers 09]

In year 9 at cadet camp we copped 50 ml's of rain on the first night while we were in tents. bullshi#.

 

[Stone in sock]

two words:

Camp Rumbug

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

two words:

Camp Rumbug

Camp Scumbug!

I went there in like Grade 5. Ye gods.

Looks like not much has changed.

 

[LondonCalling]

Where do I begin?

Melb Zoo - Went there on the last day of primary school, 43 degrees and we were expected to wear full school uniform (read: jumpers). Passed out in the butterfly enclosure and ended up on a saline drip for the rest of the day. (PMSL at the Morteine comment btw)

Scienceworks - Cannot believe it took 4 pages for this to be mentioned. Completely hit or miss. The "we put you on TV talking to Ernie Dingo in the fridge or playing guitar to Take The Pressure Down" was pretty impressive stuff back in 1993.

Rumbug - Went there when I was 8. Literally seconds after we got the talk about what to do about leeches and how to get them off properly, I got one on my neck, panicked and ripped half of it off. Still got a little mark on my neck to this day from it.

Sovereign Hill - Don't remember too much about it other than getting food poisoning on the first day from that shitty bakery there, needing to spew, and chasing the hostel cat around for a few minutes trying to spew on it. Ended up in Ballarat Hospital under observation. It was a great 10th birthday... :/

National Gallery of Victoria - Do they still have that ridiculous Roy and Matilda, the Gallery Mice story? When I was 7, I believed it, and decided to rip the little door off the wall and was most disappointed with the findings.

Grampians - Piss boring does not do it justice. I remember being kicked out of some Aboriginal art gallery because we were looking at these childrens story books and being told that they'd made special paint and finger painted the stories, and I turned around and said "Nah...looks like Vegemite", which somehow was taken as a racist comment, and had to apologise to the owners of the gallery for my insensitivity, and I think even they were just as embarassed by the yuppie middle aged white guy trying to appear PC. For this, I wasn't allowed to go to the Holocaust museum a few months later. Absolutely shattered...........no, really.

Melbourne Theatre Company -Was a regular occurance for VCE drama, very hit or miss again. Some really good plays. Some terrible ones as well (4 hours of an artistic interpretation of Great Expectations nearly killed me)

Parliament House - Went on Budget Day 97, and at the end of the day, my teacher pushed me through this crowd of media right into John Howard to ask for his autograph and a photo. The PM instead put his arm around me and gave this speech to the press gallery about how the budget would affect me directly. I just wanted an autograph....about an hour later...

 

[Plugger35]

. For this, I wasn't allowed to go to the Holocaust museum a few months later. Absolutely shattered...........no, really.

Speaking of Holocaust museums, I remember going to one in an old concentration camp near Berlin. This wasn't a school excursion by the way, just a tour group thing.

Was quite interesting but pretty heavy stuff all the same and so me and another bloke decided to have a smoke outside just to have a break from it all. We'd barely lit up when this woman that worked there stormed outside and told us to put our smokes out as we were being disrespectful or something.

Not quite sure how we were being disrespectful by smoking, I'm sure the Nazi prison guards and even the prisoners would have indulged in the odd durrie now and again. It's not like we were goose stepping and shouting 'Heil Hitler' as we smoked or anything.

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

Where do I begin?

Melb Zoo - Went there on the last day of primary school, 43 degrees and we were expected to wear full school uniform (read: jumpers). Passed out in the butterfly enclosure and ended up on a saline drip for the rest of the day. (PMSL at the Morteine comment btw)

Scienceworks - Cannot believe it took 4 pages for this to be mentioned. Completely hit or miss. The "we put you on TV talking to Ernie Dingo in the fridge or playing guitar to Take The Pressure Down" was pretty impressive stuff back in 1993.

Rumbug - Went there when I was 8. Literally seconds after we got the talk about what to do about leeches and how to get them off properly, I got one on my neck, panicked and ripped half of it off. Still got a little mark on my neck to this day from it.

Sovereign Hill - Don't remember too much about it other than getting food poisoning on the first day from that shitty bakery there, needing to spew, and chasing the hostel cat around for a few minutes trying to spew on it. Ended up in Ballarat Hospital under observation. It was a great 10th birthday... :/

National Gallery of Victoria - Do they still have that ridiculous Roy and Matilda, the Gallery Mice story? When I was 7, I believed it, and decided to rip the little door off the wall and was most disappointed with the findings.

Grampians - Piss boring does not do it justice. I remember being kicked out of some Aboriginal art gallery because we were looking at these childrens story books and being told that they'd made special paint and finger painted the stories, and I turned around and said "Nah...looks like Vegemite", which somehow was taken as a racist comment, and had to apologise to the owners of the gallery for my insensitivity, and I think even they were just as embarassed by the yuppie middle aged white guy trying to appear PC. For this, I wasn't allowed to go to the Holocaust museum a few months later. Absolutely shattered...........no, really.

Melbourne Theatre Company -Was a regular occurance for VCE drama, very hit or miss again. Some really good plays. Some terrible ones as well (4 hours of an artistic interpretation of Great Expectations nearly killed me)

Parliament House - Went on Budget Day 97, and at the end of the day, my teacher pushed me through this crowd of media right into John Howard to ask for his autograph and a photo. The PM instead put his arm around me and gave this speech to the press gallery about how the budget would affect me directly. I just wanted an autograph....about an hour later...

Every single word of this post is awesome.

 

[SouthSwans]

CERES, some greenie w***ers shithole in East Brunswick with drop dunnies. Went there TWICE

+1

Worst excursion ever.

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

Speaking of Holocaust museums, I remember going to one in an old concentration camp near Berlin. This wasn't a school excursion by the way, just a tour group thing.

Was quite interesting but pretty heavy stuff all the same and so me and another bloke decided to have a smoke outside just to have a break from it all. We'd barely lit up when this woman that worked there stormed outside and told us to put our smokes out as we were being disrespectful or something.

Not quite sure how we were being disrespectful by smoking, I'm sure the Nazi prison guards and even the prisoners would have indulged in the odd durrie now and again. It's not like we were goose stepping and shouting 'Heil Hitler' as we smoked or anything.

One of my mates went to Krakow on a bucks trip and they got rotten drunk and took some weird Polish amphetamine.

Anyway, on the Saturday morning, they'd planned to go to Auschwitz as that like cultural thing you do before hitting the suds again. It should be added these are semi respectable middle class guys with decent jobs, they had a genuine interest as well etc.

So 10AM rolls around and they're all still wired on this Polish speed so they decide **** it, we've paid for the tour etc, let's go.

They get on the bus and arrive at the gate only to be refused entrance on the grounds that they're too mashed.

FFS - KBd from Auschwitz.

I'm actually laughing as I type this. I'm going to text your man in a minute and taunt him about it.

 

[saj_21]

A good one - went to the MCG in 1998 and toured through the sports museum in the old Olympic/MCC areas and we got to on the ground.

It was in the lead up to the first week of finals and Shane Woewodin was being interviewed outside the ground when we got out of the bus. Was pretty exciting at the time (it was in yr 6 so we were all 11 or 12).

My brother went to the MCG to do a tour of the news sports museum, about 2 years ago. They had a small parrt of the ground sectioned off to walk on, but it was only on top of the sinthetic turf that is behind the goals!

 

[LondonCalling]

Just realised I've missed some pretty shit ones in my time too, due to being a lazy shit with the permission forms.

Admittedly still want to go to the gingerbread factory in Mornington, the trips to the Police & Fire Games at the G in 94, and Fossil Beach arent exactly things Im really losing any sleep over.

 

[Stone in sock]

Camp Scumbug!

I went there in like Grade 5. Ye gods.

Looks like not much has changed.

how good is the rumbug website!!

http://www.rumbug.com/foster_gallery/foster_album.htm

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[SweetLeftFoot]

Yeah, had a good old cackle at the website.

I was reminded of the D-Generation's 'Piss Weak World' a great deal.

 

[Copernicus]

Good Excursions I've been on: We did the Linear Park Bike Trail all day, then went back to the meet up point and had a BBQ.

We all walked to the Tea Tree Plaza Shopping Center and had to buy poor people gifts *walk around the shops and buy whatever the hell you want* Then went and had a BBQ and played footy.

Camps were good...

Bad: First year of High School, no camps, 1 excursion, which was to a church. We prayed and had a circumcision or whatever the **** those Catholics call it.

I am hoping you're thinking of 'confession'. And circumcision is what the Jews do, anyway!

 

[Copernicus]

Yeah, had a good old cackle at the website.

I was reminded of the D-Generation's 'Piss Weak World' a great deal.

I had that same thought! What the hell are those stirrup things that the kid is standing on? Looks like a pretty bizarre contraption.

I have a ****ing terrible memory so most of my boring school excursions have been erased years past. But I do have particularly strong recollections of our Year 9 Camp, which if I am not wrong was actually a 5-day long hazing excursion. I was hardly full grown at that point, and fairly weedy, yet had to tote a full backpack up and down some very rugged trails in the Alpine NP over near Mt Baw Baw. I was pretty much knackered every five minutes.

Also had to endure a night where it pissed down rain for hours and I think my sleeping bag ended up pretty much floating... Good times!

Did Scienceworks and Sovereign Hill and all that stuff - I don't remember loving it or hating it particularly. I do remember going to some place called Coal Creek in Korumburra, which was pretty dull.

Really, if we got out of school, and our excursion wasn't excruciating, I was pretty happy.

 

[Juddy88]

I win. Went to the Sewerage Plant one time.

You know.. The place where all the sewerage goes.

Then about a month later we went to the Water Plant.

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

II do remember going to some place called Coal Creek in Korumburra, which was pretty dull.

Really, if we got out of school, and our excursion wasn't excruciating, I was pretty happy.

Yep, did that too.

 

[Notorious_29]

Deadset went to the sewage treatment facility for geography. Was a shit of a joint...

Oath. We did this as well (Boondall). At least the next one was to the Coca-Cola factory.

 

[Jono B]

I had that same thought! What the hell are those stirrup things that the kid is standing on? Looks like a pretty bizarre contraption.

I have a ****ing terrible memory so most of my boring school excursions have been erased years past. But I do have particularly strong recollections of our Year 9 Camp, which if I am not wrong was actually a 5-day long hazing excursion. I was hardly full grown at that point, and fairly weedy, yet had to tote a full backpack up and down some very rugged trails in the Alpine NP over near Mt Baw Baw. I was pretty much knackered every five minutes.

Also had to endure a night where it pissed down rain for hours and I think my sleeping bag ended up pretty much floating... Good times!

Did Scienceworks and Sovereign Hill and all that stuff - I don't remember loving it or hating it particularly. I do remember going to some place called Coal Creek in Korumburra, which was pretty dull.

Really, if we got out of school, and our excursion wasn't excruciating, I was pretty happy.

I had a similar experience. In year nine I had a 5 day walking camp around Wilson's prom which I hated at the time.

I also went to Coal Creek, which was dull but I there was one highlight. It was back when there was an ad on TV for Sovereign Hill where a kid went into the corner shop and asked "How much for the whole shop?" with a big gold nugget, we found a bit of coal and did the same at their shop. Probably shows how dull the place was that it was a highlight.

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

I had a similar experience. In year nine I had a 5 day walking camp around Wilson's prom which I hated at the time.

I also went to Coal Creek, which was dull but I there was one highlight. It was back when there was an ad on TV for Sovereign Hill where a kid went into the corner shop and asked "How much for the whole shop?" with a big gold nugget, we found a bit of coal and did the same at their shop. Probably shows how dull the place was that it was a highlight.

LOL. That's quality.

 

[Smoooothy]

we once went to our agriculture teachers house and planted trees on his property

lazy shit