8th Grade Trip to Savannah

I made my first 8th grade trip to Savannah! It was awesome (of course).

Day 1 -

We started the trip off at 5am in the morning. That's right, we had to meet at the school at 5 in the morning. I was so excited the day before, I kept waking up throughout the night! Joe dropped me off at the school and I went into the gym to find my bus number and get started. I was the first teacher for my bus there so I began checking in the students that had arrived (there were actually 2 there before me). After a while, all students on my bus were checked in, all teachers had arrived, and we began loading. I was in the middle of the bus.

We arrived in Savannah around noon and headed right to Tybee Island. They had lunch (pizza, brownies, and water) ready for us on a pier outside of the marina. After lunch, we went on a tour of the marina and the beach. We split up our bus into a girls group and a boys group and then split our teachers amongst them. I went with the boys group. The whole tour was really amazing! The students were really engaged and really interested in all the marine wildlife. On the tour of the beach, the boys were quick to find something new to explore.

After the beach tour, we headed back to Savannah and went to Fort Jackson. This is where our kids really showed their city-folkness. Gnats, native to anywhere in GA below the fall-line. And gnats were definitely present at Fort Jackson. You would've thought these children were being attacked by a 1000 bees by the way they were swatting, swinging, and dancing to combat the gnats. I would've giggled continuously but I had my "you must be still and respectful" teacher hat on. So we swatted our way through the presentations and all of our students were drafted into the civil war :) At the very end they shot a real civil war cannon off for us, that was really cool!

After Fort Jackson, we headed to our hotel to get ready for dinner and the dance. We went to the old railroad yard for the dinner and dance. It was pretty good, I think the students had a lot of fun. I think there was some serious drama going on at the beginning of the dance, but they seemed to get through that to have some fun. I spent most of the evening making sure students were not off cuddling in some corner. I spent very little time on the dance floor :(

Next Up: Day 2

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