Field Trip #1

 Yesterday, October 20, in the year of 2008 was officially the first field trip of the 08-09 school term. School started just as usual at 8:30a.m. And then at 9:15a.m. we hopped into the van designated for the highschool classroom and off we went. After a little while we arrived at Ivy Creek Natural Area beside the the Rivanna River Reservoir. There were a whole bunch of trails beside the reservoir that we hiked for a while.

Looks like a beaver was gnawing at this tree.

a bunch of highschool guys posing for a picture

This is part of the reservoir. Thought I'd take a picture of the reservoir.

Hiking along

 After we were done hiking, we hopped back into our van, and headed over to Darden Park in Charlottesville to play some softball, which was a lot of fun. We played a total of 2 games of 7 innings each. Our team didn’t win any of them. Too bad.:( The second game it was 10-0 in our favor and somehow they ended up winning. The final score was 16-18 or 19.:( But it was fun anyway. One thing that was not fun was getting hit by a ball on my nose. Ouch. Bro. Randall, my teacher, was hitting the ball and I was catcher. One pitch he thought he would take a swing at it, so he swung and didn’t quite connect it right, and the ball flew back and hit the top of my nose. Not a good feeling, I can tell you that much. It sure will be sore for awhile. And then when it was time to go, we hopped into the van once more and rode back to the school to depart our own ways toward home. So much for the first field trip.

Advertisement