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School Trips, Anecdotes & Going On The Bounce?

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  • #62
    giggsy664
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭giggsy664


    flynnser19 wrote: »
    these posts are hilarious!!people are like "i bounced off school all the time but im fine i still went to collage"

    hmmmm maybe they should have went into school more often and they could spell???

    You gotta love Muphry's law


  • #63
    shuvly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭shuvly


    Walsh wrote: »
    Bray in 6th Class was a great bit of craic!

    Also went to Bray in 6th class, our convent had joint trip with the christian brothers....don't think it was ever repeated...


  • #64
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    I was lucky I got to go on 2 big school trips around europe. the 2nd one was in 2nd year aged 14, I remember being on the bus on the way towards the ferry back home from france and one of the teachers going around the bus collecting all the knives(all boys school), some lad had a machete, not sure what they did with them all but it was a big enough bag full of them.

    In Holland where most of us got the knives (Germany also had alot of that stuff) they sold alcohol to us, the teachers were hammered too so they didnt seem to care. I remember there was a girls school staying on the opposite side of the street in another hostel, we took a shelf from the wardrobe and wrote something like 'show us your tits!' on it with black marker and held it up to the window, exciting times they were


  • #65
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Furthest I travelled to for a school trip was Limerick (secondary) and Kilkenny (primary). :(


  • #66
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Dudess wrote: »
    I was so crap at going on the hop - ALWAYS got caught. I remember a few of us just spending one afternoon in the school toilets - far more boring than class, so really shouldn't have bothered.

    On the hop usually means leaving the school premises :D

    I was a swot, but even I did it a few times, never got caught.


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  • #67
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Dudess wrote: »
    Furthest I went on a school trip was Limerick (secondary) and Kilkenny (primary). :(

    What did you do down there?

    I went to Limerick once and near died of boredom.

    Even the cinema didn't open till 6pm and I was there at 1pm and had to kill the whole day. Just drove to Adare and back into town, bought a book in Easons and read it in the car, nightmare of a place.


  • #68
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    We went to some project awards thing in UL, where we learned that only Cork girls wear school skirts that barely cover their arses.
    IvySlayer wrote: »
    On the hop usually means leaving the school premises :D
    :)

    Yeah, and even on that occasion when I didn't leave the school grounds, I still got caught...


  • #69
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Wandering around town on the hop one day came around the corner and bumped into my history class who were on a field trip:o


  • #70
    anniehoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭anniehoo


    McChubbin wrote: »
    . Ahh, Mr. Kindlin! A feckin' LEGEND.
    Loreto Rivervalley by any chance?


  • #71
    judas101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭judas101


    Pdfile wrote: »


    Boucning: All the time... who i ever made it through school ill ever know... i was barely their.

    Kids, stay in school.


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  • #72
    griffdaddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,414 ✭✭✭griffdaddy


    I remember in 6th class we had a very sound teacher who was always making jokes and generally up for a bit of banter. One day he was doing the roll call and replacing the first letter of all the lads first names with the first letter of their last name, so 'James Byrne' would become 'Bames Jyrne' or 'David Kelly' would become 'Kavid Delly' and so on. Anyway, he got to 'Paddy Doren' and kept going without even realising what he was about to say, and then it happened, possibly my fondest memory of primary school, he said 'Daddy Poren' and I'd never heard so many repressed sniggers and outright bellowing laughter in my life. I guess we were easily amused back then :o


  • #73
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    anniehoo wrote: »
    Loreto Rivervalley by any chance?
    Yes indeedy! You win the internet if you can name the Home Ec teacher from hell!


  • #74
    plein de force
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭plein de force


    thanks to technology it's now impossible to go on the hop without getting caught, when you're not in in the morning or back after lunch in the afternoon your parent gets a text in my school :mad:


  • #75
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    McChubbin wrote: »
    Yes indeedy! You win the internet if you can name the Home Ec teacher from hell!

    Well, I was Fingal Community College in the town and our Home Ec teacher was Mrs Ring.

    SHe didn't move up to the Valley by any chance??

    "Willlll yeeeeeee beeeeee quieeeeeet!!!"

    ..was her trademark squel :)


  • #76
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Well, I was Fingal Community College in the town and our Home Ec teacher was Mrs Ring.

    SHe didn't move up to the Valley by any chance??

    "Willlll yeeeeeee beeeeee quieeeeeet!!!"

    ..was her trademark squel :)

    Don't remember anyone called Mrs. Ring. I was there from 2000-2005 if it helps. I find going "truant" is easier when your parents are working a nine to five job. When they get in at 1pm? Hmmmm, not so much.


  • #77
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    McChubbin wrote: »
    Don't remember anyone called Mrs. Ring. I was there from 2000-2005 if it helps. I find going "truant" is easier when your parents are working a nine to five job. When they get in at 1pm? Hmmmm, not so much.

    So, you know Fat Tony's?

    5000th post! Wooo hooo :)


  • #78
    anniehoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭anniehoo


    McChubbin wrote: »
    Yes indeedy! You win the internet if you can name the Home Ec teacher from hell!
    Was it Shovelin?
    Im gonna have to ring one of my mates and find out ha...or pm me! Ive a vague recollection of a Mrs Ring ( i was 1990-1996) though..loooooong time ago!

    /christ i feel old :o

    Outlaw...at least it wasnt Finians!!!


  • #79
    Cian92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Cian92


    Dudess wrote: »
    Cork girls wear school skirts that barely cover their arses.

    God I love being from Cork! It wasn't untill I went to an open day in UL did I see girls wearing skirts which came down to their ankles (I kid you not)
    to technology it's now impossible to go on the hop without getting caught, when you're not in in the morning or back after lunch in the afternoon your parent gets a text in my school mad.gif

    We have that system too, but I gave them my number as opposed to my parents number, works a treat. Never went on the hop though, as my school is in the back arse of nowhere, there is nowhere to go!


  • #80
    OutlawPete
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    anniehoo wrote: »
    Outlaw...at least it wasnt Finians!!!

    Was Mrs English still up there when you were there?

    She caught us on the roof one day and phoned the Guards.


  • #81
    anniehoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭anniehoo


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Was Mrs English still up there when you were there?
    .
    Nope her name doesnt ring a bell. God dya remember our uniforms?Brown and green :eek: "the chocpops" haha


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  • #82
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    anniehoo wrote: »
    Nope her name doesnt ring a bell. God dya remember our uniforms?Brown and green :eek: "the chocpops" haha

    I went out with a girl from there.

    I liked your uniforms :)

    Ours were all wine colored.


  • #83
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    So, you know Fat Tony's?

    5000th post! Wooo hooo :)

    Yes! Best chipper in Swords! Granted, haven't seen much of Fat tony since Juliano took over the place. BTW, before we vere completly off topic, does anyone remember having Ms O' Hanlon for 6th class in Holy Family?


  • #84
    citizen_p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    i remember on our trp to france seeing our principal in a red light district type place....chocca-block with porn/sex shops. ohh and the day the teachers got pissed, that was good for everyone.
    ohh and none of the other teachers wanted to sit by the principal on the plane...


  • #85
    giggsy664
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭giggsy664


    Pppfffttt.

    Coláiste Choilm ftw


  • #86
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    giggsy664 wrote: »
    Pppfffttt.

    Coláiste Choilm ftw

    All my brothers went there, grey uniforms, nightmare.

    The brothers were all mad into ya's you know?

    That's why they made you all play so much Gaelic in your tight shorts ;)

    I would have hated secondary with no girls.


  • #87
    metaoblivia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭metaoblivia


    I went to school near Orlando, Fl, so we got to Disney World at least once every year. Usually it was EPCOT, the worst of the parks, but one year the physics class went to Magic Kingdom and rode roller coasters.

    For Marine Biology we went on a three day school trip to a camp near Key West. We went snorkeling, looked at sea life, went on a scavenger hunt (my group found an octopus; it wasn't on our list, but we put him in our bucket anyway thinking we might get extra points. We did and he got to go back to the wild after everyone got a good look). Everyone got stung by a jellyfish except for me; I was smart enough to not grab the white blobby things floating in the water.

    My high school choir took a two week summer tour through England and France. That trip resulted in lots of drama. On our way to France, we accidentally left one of the choir members in England. In France, one girl attempted suicide in her hotel room, and two other students got caught having sex in their hotel room. And then, one of the chaperones snuck out with a few students to get a better look at the Eiffel Tower. They wouldn't have been caught, except that the elevator jammed on the way up and they were stuck for a few hours.


  • #88
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
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    metaoblivia wrote: »
    I went to school near Orlando, Fl, so we got to Disney World at least once every year. Usually it was EPCOT, the worst of the parks, but one year the physics class went to Magic Kingdom and rode roller coasters.

    For Marine Biology we went on a three day school trip to a camp near Key West. We went snorkeling, looked at sea life, went on a scavenger hunt (my group found an octopus; it wasn't on our list, but we put him in our bucket anyway thinking we might get extra points. We did and he got to go back to the wild after everyone got a good look). Everyone got stung by a jellyfish except for me; I was smart enough to not grab the white blobby things floating in the water.

    My high school choir took a two week summer tour through England and France. That trip resulted in lots of drama. On our way to France, we accidentally left one of the choir members in England. In France, one girl attempted suicide in her hotel room, and two other students got caught having sex in their hotel room. And then, one of the chaperones snuck out with a few students to get a better look at the Eiffel Tower. They wouldn't have been caught, except that the elevator jammed on the way up and they were stuck for a few hours.

    Best. School. Evaaaar.


  • #89
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    metaoblivia wrote: »
    I went to school near Orlando, Fl, so we got to Disney World at least once every year. Usually it was EPCOT, the worst of the parks, but one year the physics class went to Magic Kingdom and rode roller coasters.

    For Marine Biology we went on a three day school trip to a camp near Key West. We went snorkeling, looked at sea life, went on a scavenger hunt (my group found an octopus; it wasn't on our list, but we put him in our bucket anyway thinking we might get extra points. We did and he got to go back to the wild after everyone got a good look). Everyone got stung by a jellyfish except for me; I was smart enough to not grab the white blobby things floating in the water.

    My high school choir took a two week summer tour through England and France. That trip resulted in lots of drama. On our way to France, we accidentally left one of the choir members in England. In France, one girl attempted suicide in her hotel room, and two other students got caught having sex in their hotel room. And then, one of the chaperones snuck out with a few students to get a better look at the Eiffel Tower. They wouldn't have been caught, except that the elevator jammed on the way up and they were stuck for a few hours.

    Not jealous at all :mad:

    Although I have been to Disneyworld :pac:


  • #90
    OutlawPete
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    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Although I have been to Disneyworld :pac:

    Paris or Orlando?


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  • #91
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Paris or Orlando?

    Orlando, nice try though :)


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