Geology Trips
At our school, our AS/A Level Geology teacher's trips are absolutely legendary. Bearded, grey and balding, he looks like a mad hatter, has a fondness for real ale and a keen interest in introducing his students to said ale.

Trip 1. Cornwall, weekend in December 2005. Incidents include rock-paper-scissors between his friend and one of my classmates, as to who would drive the minibus back to the hostel after Green got too drunk to drive straight.
- Breaking into the hostel when we first got there because no-one was around.
- Taking said minibus down a road marked 'unsuitable for vehicles' at 10pm in quest for local pub, ending up trying to take the automatic poor thing around a 1 in 3 inclined hairpin bend, complete with cliff drop around the outside (front left wheel 3foot off the ground, whole class standing on the edges to weight it down, two hysterical girls in the front seat etc etc. bloody hilarious, basically).
- Also, vouching to the local pub's landlady that we were all over 18 (cloass of 16 and 17 year olds) so we could all get served.
- He also backed the bus into a fence, took us to at least 3 places for fieldwork then decided it wasn't worth going there, knocked the corner off someone's house with the bus and got caught up in an arguement with the owner, etc etc.

Trip 2. Isle of Mull, Scotland, early April 2006. Incidents include:
- Insisting driving the bus down a path marked 'footpath only', making the other driver refuse to drive down it and subsequently one bus taking two buses worth of students down said path.
- Trekking two miles downhill and along a rocky beach to look at some pebbles, before trekking all the way back again. In the pouring rain.
- Rigging someone's mp3 player to the minibus sound system and raving away in the back of the bus.
- Clogging up the hostel's entire drainage system after attempting to clean up a rather drunken flour fight.
- Attempting to flour Green's mate whilst he was asleep.

Trip 3. Northern Spain, end of October 2006.
- Blagging our way into a bar and being presented with a 3-litre tube of beer with a tap on the bottom. Not complaining!
- Three classmates getting picked up by a spanish guy in a Beamer and offered cocaine and spanish prostitutes, before getting dumped unceremoniously when the guy discovered they had no money.
- One guy getting absolutely smashed, almost jumping off a bridge, not remembering anything after two shots of absinthe (that followed seven of tequila) and losing his eyebrows (I believe the video is still on YouTube - search STRS and it's called something along the lines of 'Sam Moore loses eyebrows'), subsequently spending most of the night leaning over the bog.


Can't think of any more right now, but Green is an absolute legend. As long as the bus ends up clean by the time we go home, and as long as we don't throw up while we're out and about, he doesn't actually care what we do. Will even join in!

*insert length/girth joke here*
(Steg isn't drunk enough yet., Tue 12 Dec 2006, 22:53, Reply)