1. The Fieldtrip
It all started with the class field trip, at least...that's what I thought. Hi, I'm Frederick Alonso, and I go to Lincoln Middle School. This Friday was our school field trip, a week in Montana. On our way there, our van's engine ran out of gas. We had to hitch a ride from a city bus and then the city bus had to stop in Idaho, because the bus driver said he could not take us farther than that. Good thing we stopped there, because I was getting hungry. My dad had given me 100 dollars for the trip that I could use in an emergency (or for a nice souvenir!) I asked the teacher if I could go to the gas station for a snack. I knew we probably had to stay the night there, so I bought one sleeping bag, two water bottles, one Charmin extra soft toilet paper roll (in case we had to poop in the woods), a few bags of chips and duct tape, because you always need to have duct tape. It turned out we did have to stay the night here. The kids who were lucky, including me got to sleep in the bus shed. I got extra lucky because I got to sleep on a bench in the bus shed instead of the ground. So far, it had been a pretty terrible field trip.