School Trips, Anecdotes & Going On The Bounce?

OutlawPete

So what 'School Trips' have you been on and where they any craic?

Did you ever go on the 'Bounce', what you get up to?


School Trips

Went to Lisdoonvarna when I was in third year and stayed in some kip hotel. Was a blast though, didn't sleep a wink. Bought a penknife in the Aillwee Caves giftshop and was messing about thinking I was the hardshaw with it and mate kicked it and it closed on my finger and sliced of a good ole portion off my knuckle. Clear passed out and came to on a leather sofa in the Hotel lobby. Great craic though, one of the best times of my life.

LAlso, went to London with 4th year and bought a bottle of whiskey in an Off-Licence for the first time and for some reason tried to put on an English accident and the girl said "You Australian?". I just nodded. Me and a mate ended up getting lost as we got separated from the group in Victoria train station. Couldn't remember the name of the hotel so we went to Soho and had a look around. We then phoned the school in Dublin and asked if they knew the hotel name. 10pm we finally got a Cab to the Hotel and where then grounded for the rest of the trip and the everyone had drunk the whiskey.

On The Bounce

Hard to explain this to people who are under 35 but when the Square first opened in Tallaght it was big fcuking news. People couldn't shut up about it. I was 16 then which was also round the time I had been sneaking out my Dads car. Long story short, five of us bounced off and went on a our trip to Tallaght. We never made it. Ended up nearly getting killed up the mountains where the cars park for the view. Tried to do a u-turn but the car conked out and van came tearing round the corner, lads were screaming, 'move the fcuking car you cnut ffs'. Went to McDonalds drive through in the end and then back home before my Dad got home from his shift in Aer Lingus. I opened the hall door and let him in cause I knew he'd hear the engine ticking down if he went in the side past the car

Bounced off and went to the cinema a few times also.

That's mine, your turn mofos.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Bastards wouldn't let me go on the school tour cos I was always on detention for smoking

However, other lads who were just back from suspension (and I have never been suspended) were allowed to go because their fathers were 'pillars of society'

Only got to go to the consolation school tour to little killary...

Still pissed off

Sea Sharp

I mitched off to see the Matrix Revolutions.

School Trip: The best was Manchester in 6th class. We got to see old Trafford, the set of Coronation Street and some kick ass aquarium.

chin_grin

School Trip: Mosney (pfffffft!)

Mitched: Nope. Aw.

Midnight_EG

Trips:Usual Irish adventure centres like Killary, Delphi, Blessington, and the usual Sightseeing places like Newgrange.
Also went snowboarding to Italy, went to Paris, went to Prague(well, some of the school did, I didn't), went to a few other places I cant think of

On the hop? Don't think I have actually!

m@cc@

chin_grin wrote: »

School Trip: Mosney (pfffffft!)

Ah Mosney, it was a ****ty version of Butlins but dammit, it was OUR ****ty version.

Pdfile

went nowhere - my school was a f***** dump.


:mad:


Boucning: All the time... who i ever made it through school ill ever know... i was barely their. Still got top marks in both jnr and leavin...

OutlawPete

m@cc@ wrote: »

Ah Mosney, it was a ****ty version of Butlins but dammit, it was OUR ****ty version.

I went but can't remember who brought use. Maybe was a community thing. I remember there was this restaurant that you could see inside the bottom of the pool while you were eating.

All the lads pulled down their speedos n stuck their arses against the glass, parents covering their kids eyes and others blessing themselves .. :pac:

Went to Clara Lara camping with the Scouts too. Was great laugh, Scout leaders were bunch of weirdos though.

m@cc@

OutlawPete wrote: »

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All the lads pulled down their speedos n stuck their arses against the glass, parents covering their kids eyes and others blessing themselves .. :pac:

Pete, EVERY single lad did that.


EDIT: Just for memories sake...

http://www.butlinsmemories.com/mosney/indoorpool.jpg

PrettyBoy

When I was 16, in transition year, my class were going to France for some history trip. I had no real interest in going, but me and my mate decided to tell our parents that we wanted to go, so we gave them forms to sign and they gave us around €300 each which, as far as they knew, was paying for flights accommodation and a little spending money. We went to Amsterdam :pac:

It was just the two of us and we didn't tell anyone what we were doing because we were afraid that somebody would rat on us and fuck the whole thing up. They wouldn't believe us when they came back from France and we told them where we were but we let the pictures tell the story :P

I always felt guilty about taking the €300 from my old man and blowing it in Amsterdam but we told him about it a couple of years ago (when I was 19) and he was in knots!

Good times!

thekid9

Went to Paris + we all got p***** on cheap vodka from the supermarkets. 11euro for a 1 litre bottle. Needless to say there was plenty bins full of sick after us.

IvySlayer

5th class on a school trip to Clare. We were in a hostel.

I remember a very special night. It's the night of the Champions League Final between Manchester United and Bayern Munich. My whole class, including my teacher, Miss Walsh were United supporters. I remember when Basler scored and everyone was depressed. I remember Oliver Kahn saving everything.

The celebrations when Sheringham scored, were eclipsed by the celebrations when Solskjear scored. Everyone went mad, my teacher jumped on the table cheering, so did half of my mates. It collapsed. But no-one cared.

It was about 3 am before were we ordered to bed. Everyone was split off into bunks. Lights out in 20 minutes the landlady said. No food or drink was allowed in the bedrooms. It was 4 bunks per room. She made inspections but we had stuffed loads of cans and crisps/bars in a drawer :pac:

We stayed up all night and got hyper. My friend was sleeping on the top bunk, and we decided to push him off. The screams made our prinicpal burst in, off course we was tucked under our covers laughing.

The day was spent hiking up hills. The night, we played cops and robbers in a forest. It was so dark, we had to use our torches. Best game ever. We all headed inside. And then my mates decided to ransack the other bedrooms. I was ordered to keep 'sketch'. We all then hopped into bed and waited until the others went and we could hear the expressions of 'WTF?'

Ohhhh so many more happened that trip. Sorry to bore you

m@cc@

IvySlayer wrote: »

Ohhhh so many more happened that trip. Sorry to bore you

I actually liked that story. Rings true for a lot of people.

IvySlayer

m@cc@ wrote: »

I actually liked that story. Rings true for a lot of people.

Thanks man

Nothing like remembering how the world was when you were 11/12/13!

OutlawPete

m@cc@ wrote: »

Pete, EVERY single lad did that.

Way to go and spoil my belief that my mates were madder than yours

I also remember at that time there was a craze about those crude thick silver identity bracelets. Slip ons with white socks and one of them and you'd be peeling the women off ya :cool:

:pac:

m@cc@

OutlawPete wrote: »

Way to go and spoil my belief that my mates were madding than yours

I'd love to know what was the thinking behind having a window so you could watch the bare arses of young boys while you eat. How was that ever going to work out well?

OutlawPete

IvySlayer wrote: »

Thanks man

Nothing like remembering how the world was when you were 11/12/13!

I'll tell you one thing about when I was around 12. I knew more people who ended up in Beaumont's casualty after watching The A-Team than anything else.

People say kids today are nuts, when we were young we were scutching lifts on the back of vans, trucks or anything and sliding along.

If there was a building site near you, you'd be tearing along the scaffolding not a fear in the world and if you lived near a castle, forget about it

Swords castle is all closed off now with offices and crap but when we were kids that was our playground. There were little hideouts on the very top of it and at 9 and 10 we would be up there. Mental looking back.

Same with underage drinking.

Whenever I hear people saying that young people are drinking young these days I have to laugh. Kids were always drinking at a young age. Any underage discos I ever went to when young always had a field close by with a bottle of Old Cellar being passed around.

IvySlayer

OutlawPete wrote: »

I'll tell you one thing about when I was around 12. I knew more people who ended up in Beaumont's casualty after watching The A-Team than anything else.

Yeah well, we tried to create our own version of the Crystal Maze :pac:

m@cc@

One of my favourite pastimes was running through the fields and smashing the windows of abandoned houses. Seems wrong now, but it seemed fine at the time as no one was getting hurt/noticed.

Cupcake_Crisis

Our school brought us to Amsterdam in fourth year. It was funny cos my year was the biggest group of future junkies you could imagine!!

OutlawPete

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

Our school brought us to Amsterdam in fourth year. It was funny cos my year was the biggest group of future junkies you could imagine!!

School went to Holland in 5th year (1989) but I had a choice of that or Santa Ponsa with my brother - Santa Ponsa it was.

I came back as white as I went as I found this Pub that showed films that weren't even in the Cinema yet.

nibtrix

IvySlayer wrote: »

Yeah well, we tried to create our own version of the Crystal Maze :pac:

We used to recreate Knightmare! Nothing like putting a bucket on someone's head and making them walk into walls and put their hands into bowls of slime - "Take three side-steps to the left"...:D

minidazzler

PrettyBoy wrote: »

When I was 16, in transition year, my class were going to France for some history trip. I had no real interest in going, but me and my mate decided to tell our parents that we wanted to go, so we gave them forms to sign and they gave us around €300 each which, as far as they knew, was paying for flights accommodation and a little spending money. We went to Amsterdam :pac:

It was just the two of us and we didn't tell anyone what we were doing because we were afraid that somebody would rat on us and fuck the whole thing up. They wouldn't believe us when they came back from France and we told them where we were but we let the pictures tell the story :P

I always felt guilty about taking the €300 from my old man and blowing it in Amsterdam but we told him about it a couple of years ago (when I was 19) and he was in knots!

Good times!

I don't know if this story is true, but I hope it is, you are my hero!

OutlawPete wrote: »

People say kids today are nuts, when we were young we were scutching lifts on the back of vans, trucks or anything and sliding along.

Whenever I hear people saying that young people are drinking young these days I have to laugh. Kids were always drinking at a young age. Any underage discos I ever went to when young always had a field close by with a bottle of Old Cellar being passed around.

Kids today aren't nuts, they are little cnuts! They do nothing dangerous or crazy, just stupid stuff like robbing.

Difference between the old days of Teenage Disco's and these days.

We had a little cider before going, kids these days are downing whole bottles to vodka and passing out. They are useless little cnuts!

anniehoo

OutlawPete wrote: »

Swords castle is all closed off now with offices and crap but when we were kids that was our playground.

The more you post, the more im convinced i know you ha

I was a total and utter nerd in school. The only time i "mitched" was in my Leaving Cert year...and i studied biology :o

Best school trip was to Achill Island in 1993. It was BALTIC!!! We went surfing and i swear to god we look feckin hyperthermic in the pics now.

The "cool gang" were doin this weird "fainting" game in their room. Theyd hold their breath and pass out...honestly it was ridiculously dangerous.But i wasnt "cool" so never got to do it. Errr...thank god when i look back now. One girl in our class had a heart condition!:eek:

Mr. Gruff

m@cc@ wrote: »

I'd love to know what was the thinking behind having a window so you could watch the bare arses of young boys while you eat. How was that ever going to work out well?

I think I might have an inkling ....

OutlawPete

anniehoo wrote: »

The more you post, the more im convinced i know you ha

You ever been naked down the back of the Castle at the Tennis Courts?

anniehoo

OutlawPete wrote: »

You ever been naked down the back of the Castle at the Tennis Courts?

Hehe...no! The Jacko though?

/no there too..just adding swords lingo in ha!

Atavan-Halen

Midnight_EG wrote: »

On the hop? Don't think I have actually!

What?! Even I've been on the hop! :P

Was nothing exciting though. I just went into Town and went to burger king

sorrywhat

Went to Austrai skiing when I was in 5th year. some load of messers went.
Every morning the teacher would announce "right lads we are gonna start a new sheet today". We got killed on that trip.

There was these little pubs every so often down a few slopes. I stopped at one everytime I skiied down for about 2 hours and got hammered on wine. I smashed into a big massive group of germans and could not get up. Its really hard to stand up, p!ssed with 10ft feet on ya!

We were brought to a swimming pool another day and a load of the boys were jumping into the pool off what looked like plastic patio furniture and broke some it. They never told the teacher what happened and the manager thought the teachers were trying to sneak out without telling them Our teacher went nuts and told us all to get dressed asap and get to our rooms.
The pool was a good ten mins walk from our hotel. My hair froze on the way back, 2 of the lads held it out, horizontal from my ears and it froze in place. Our teacher didnt find it funny. I lol'd

On the way back from the trip we were in the airport and some of us got served some booze. We drank it on the plane. Then got caught coming from the plane to the baggage area. I think they was about 7 or 8 people suspended when we got home.

Really good trip though!

As in regards to "going on the duck". Every thursday I used to duck of my last double maths class and go to mates house and smoke weed. No idea how we never got caught by the school.

DevilsBreath

I remember miching 4 wednesdays in a row with a couple of the lads because a TV show was on at 12.

Missed 1/3 of 5th and half of 6th year to go drinking and messing around. Still passed leaving and went to collage.

Was living in Newbridge so went out to Hill of Alan and the curragh were we had place's to hangout with no adults.

OutlawPete

anniehoo wrote: »

Hehe...no! The Jacko though?

/no there too..just adding swords lingo in ha!

Ahhhh, good days .. drinking in the Hollow and then off down the lane to the Jacko with a bag of cans.

You were always complaining about the midgets biting ya ..

anniehoo

OutlawPete wrote: »

You were always complaining about the midgets biting ya ..

My taste in blokes has improved (slightly) since then :D

OutlawPete

anniehoo wrote: »

My taste in blokes has improved (slightly) since then :D

I'm no taller :pac:

bazmaiden

Went to France with my school (2003) as part of a twinning thing so we had to visit a school in Paris that had a capacitity of about 300 pupils.

So our teachers left us in the playground, about 20 of us, and went for tea with the other teachers anyway long story short when they arrived back there was a huge fight going on and we had to be all seperated.

Was really embarrasing for the teachers, needless to say we weren't allowed back

Those rowdy irish:D

we'llallhavetea_old

this is a great thread outlawpete!

school trip : germany

we stayed in hostels, we compared them to a concentration camp (kips)
however, there was a disco bar downstairs we discovered.... i think even the goody two shoes were plastered drunk that night, and the teachers just let us at it!

i also went to the marble arch caves and stole a notebook, i was sh!tting myself so bad i tried to throw it in the bin, other students seen me and made a big song and a dance about how they'd take it, all the while i was getting sweatier and hammier by the minute.

on the hop: all of 5th and 6th yr.

one day i was sittin in the sittingroom smokin away, on the hop, fcukin rebel.
i noticed the sunlight draining from the room, my dads coach was after pulling up outside... fcuk.
threw the fag in the empty fire, grabbed the bag, ran up the stairs and into the wardrobe, where i remained for the next hour and a half in the foetal position in AGONY!

i could hear him on the phone to my ma bout "the fcukin smell of fags in this house", fcuking petrifying times!

citizen_p

went on the mitch
1. in dunnes carpark a few times until caught....one of the lads ratted everyone out, but those here were caughht never said anything.
2. cinema/ town (dublin)
3. lake

trips
france,,,drinking etc... but mainly meh
skiing in austria. a week of fukin animal craic, stunning place. especially good for my school who usually have **** trips.

mcdoogle

My class were taken on a trip to some adventure centre in the west of Ireland in 4th year. We were put into 4 man rooms that had a sink in them. As usual during the night there was messing, things got out of hand and the wash basin was broken in one of the rooms. By broken I mean a piece the size of your head broke off so not much chance to cover that up!

Took about 10 seconds for us to form a shaw shank redemption type plan. The basin was broken down into small parts and smuggled out through the window and scattered well away from the building. The real genius was where the lads managed to break off the copper pipe and bend the remaining stump over itself down near the floor to stop the water pissing out (Not even sure how they managed this, I was in a different room).

The next morning all rooms were inspected by staff, all ok and off home we went. The next Monday morning the principal came in and said the game was up, he wasn't even angry just wanted us to split the cost between us. Think he admired the genius of the whole plan.

There were a lot of plumbers in my class!!

Absurdum

we went to see that lad's head in Drogheda in transition year, on the way back to the bus a few of us slipped into a pub run by the oldest person in the world and bought naggins, got drunk on the bus on the way back, happy days.

Herb Powell

eh, biggest thing was in first year on a trip to France when we obtained so many fireworks. the faces on some people when we came to security were priceless. we lit some of them and threw them off the back off the ship. it was nice.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

School Trips:
Carlingford, 6th class: Meh, was alright. Burglar alarm kept going if in the middle of the night.:mad:
St. Andrews, 1st year: Golfing at 9 o'clock every morning so things weren't going to be that great anyway, still a bit of craic though.
Carnoustie, 2nd year: Some craic, 10 lads, all of us spent the two nights chatting up every memer of the female staff.:D

DazMarz

School Trips:
-Malaga in 1st Year
-Skiiing in 4th year in Austria (got into fights with zee German students sharing the chateau; they didnt like drinking much, so we played rebel songs til all hours and drank like fish)...

On the hop:

-1st year: every Tuesday from Double-French
-1st year/2nd year/3rd year/4th year/5th year/6th year: every Friday afternoon
-4th year: damn near every day! Transition year and all that. haha

Elliemental

I went on a school trip to an abatoir. I haven't eaten meat since.

OutlawPete

Elliemental wrote: »

I went on a school trip to an abatoir. I haven't eaten meat since.

Seriously, how long ago was that?

Walsh

Bray in 6th Class was a great bit of craic! Paris & Normandy in 2nd Year, L.A, Vegas & The Grand Canyon in 4th Year, Rome, Pompeii & Sorrento in 5th Year. Best times of my life. Not bad for a little school from Dublins north inner city

OutlawPete

Walsh wrote: »

Bray in 6th Class was a great bit of craic! Paris & Normandy in 2nd Year, L.A, Vegas & The Grand Canyon in 4th Year, Rome, Pompeii & Sorrento in 5th Year. Best times of my life. Not bad for a little school from Dublins north inner city

Fcuk me, wish I grew up in Bray

Walsh

OutlawPete wrote: »

Fcuk me, wish I grew up in Bray

So do I? Haha

gamgsam

Haha great stuff!

I used to doss school a bit with my ex. Her mother wouldnt let us see each other so we'd skip school on fridays or mondays and get a three day weekend in. Got spotted by a teacher once walking the opposite direction from the school, they called my mother, thought i was in for it but got away grand because the ex was moving away within a few weeks

Used to play in a good band too. After she moved we'd doss the odd few days, get a slab and jam away for hours.

F*cking great times.

OutlawPete

Walsh wrote: »

So do I? Haha

LMFAO

I read that wrong, wake up Pete :rolleyes: .. :pac:

Which school was that?

Walsh

St. Joesphs in Fairview, a grand aul school it was!

OutlawPete

Walsh wrote: »

St. Joesphs in Fairview, a grand aul school it was!

Jaysus, you even had the best chippers in Dublin (Fairview Grill) and a grand park there for playing football. No wonder you miss your school days :cool:

McChubbin

Never got the opportunity to go any school trips as I didn't bother with Transition Year but when I was in 3rd year, some of the teachers decided to stage a "sleep-over" in the PE hall for some insane reason. It was the night before the Christmas pagent so that might have had something to do with it...

Anyways, it was pretty low-key but saved by one of the Irish teachers bringing his guitar in and singing Kevin Bloody Wilson tracks. Ahh, Mr. Kindlin! A feckin' LEGEND. It was also the first and only time I've ever seen a Wagon Wheel pizza. A TRACTOR wheel would be more appropriate.

Only real downside to it was the fact that the PE Hall had no heating. Had I not brought along extra blankets, I probably would've gotten hypothermia. Still woke up with slightly fingers, though.

As for "bunking off", in 3rd and 5th year, I would regularly forgoe coming into school until noon as the first 2 and a half hours involved getting unfounded and unprovoked abuse off the evil **** of a Home Economics teacher in a class I didn't sign up for.

I considered it a form of protest as I'd been inexplicable been transfered to Home Ec from Art for whatever reason and I kicked up murder.
Eventually, it got to a point where, after 3 visits to the principal's office and about 14 dentenions my mother threatened to call Joe Duffy The Department of Education unless I got put back into the Art class.

The following week, a place had mysterious opened up in Art and I happily gave the one fingered salute to that utter bitch of a teacher.

I took great pleasure in taking her aside after graduation and telling her to "Kindly go **** yourself".

T'was a great personal victory.