A geology field trip to remember
I personally loved petrology as a class, and I really enjoy looking at rocks under the microscope.
So naturally, I was stoked when we decided to leave for the field trip.
First, we had to stop in a little town for like 3 hours because one of the vans got a flat tire.... okay whatever, we'll just wander around this parking lot with used cars for sale in it.
Once we got going, we spent most of the day stopping at outcrops, giving our professor some real smartass comments (mostly like "what do you think this is?" "A rock" type of thing... nothing terribly creative)
Then, the preferred campground was full of families and whatnot, so we go to another that was so full of mosquitos, you couldnt breathe without inhaling a few. (Deet was literally the only thing that worked... it was disgusting)
We learned very quickly not to talk to the professor until he had his first beer and first cigarette (I think he smoked an entire pack in one night and drank a whole case... germans.)
In my class, theres a girl from Japan. Her english is amazing, but theres some nuances she doesn't quite get. So what do a bunch of mildly intoxicated college students do? We start teaching her the usages of words like b*tch, sh*t, and f*ck.... every now and then the professor would insert some comment.
The next morning my tent partner and I learned not to leave the tent until he had his first cup of coffee.
The next day, out in the field, the prof definitely "threatened" to hit all of us over the head with a rock hammer if we gave him one more sarcastic comment.
Back at camp (new place, near a river, bats are present, so much less of the mosquitos)
Same thing at the fire, teaching the poor Japanese classmate English nuances. More comments from German professor.
I stayed up later with a couple of other classmates (one of which was underaged and had brought out his flask of whiskey).
The next morning, I stayed in the tent until our professor woke everyone up. Underaged classmate was busy puking while we were breaking down our camp stuff.
All in all it was a fantastic trip, but oh boy, the shenanigans.... I'm gonna miss all these fools when we graduate...