We, OCAC 8th grade had a fieldtrip to Hangzhou to learn about the tea culture. Before we start on this “amazing” trip, we ought to keep something in mind: the trip has a very affordable and worthy price of only 2350 yuan. With this pricing, the school would definitely offer us an accommodation that is high quality and comfortable…….Right? Well yes, when we first got to our dormitory, there was no lights, except for creepy green and red lights that is there for some odd reason. We had to walk in the dark, not yet mentioning that the indoor walk was atleast 2 minutes. This is helps the students to strengthen our senses as well as to build up our mental stability. The room was kind of tight, especially with 10 students in 1 room, has no toilets, but has 4 sinks for some odd reason. Our whole grade (Boys) has to use the bathroom and shower in the same place, with random 4th grader girls walking by during our shower time. The stay was a great opportunity for us to experience what we learned in I and S class in real life, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and shows us that knowledge and learning is not only in school and in books, but also learning with real life experiences.
With the pricing of 2350 yuan, the school arranged an abundant amount of activities, such as picking tea leaves, walking, hiking, trotting, going on foot, wandering, marching, as well as galloping. With our activities mostly being walking, this gives us the opportunity to explore various ways to escape boredom, even though everyone failed in terms of this. The school managed to make the hike the ceiling of boredom and pointlessism (I’m shakespeare, I am allowed to make up my own words as long as it is useful) by letting us walking in one single straight line, even when there is absolutely nobody, no cars, no wild tigers, and a wide road most of the time. On top of this, with our hikes, we achieved absolutely nothing. We were told that we are going to walk around the West Lake, but we didn’t even see a glimpse of it. Turns out, we hiked around a mountain that is around the West Lake. This was a big challenge for me, not physically, but mentally due to walking for hours with no type of entertainment while knowing that we are doing all of this for nothing.
Lastly, the school did a great job in giving us a free choice. With the ridiculous pricing of 2350 yuan, us and our parents should have the choice of deciding whether to attend the field trip or not. Atleast that is how anyone who is not an idiot would think. The school emphasized multiple times to us that we have to pay them 2350 yuan unless we have proof from the hopsital that we are sick, giving us an abundant room and space for our own decisions, and definitely respecting our human rights. On top of all of the information stated above, we learned nothing during the trip. For our presentation at the end of our field trip, we had to do excessive research and learn about whatever our inquiry question was online on our own. However, this is a very honest review, so I have to give credit to the bus ride, picking tea leaves, and going to the science museum. The bus ride was pretty normal, nothing too stingy, was pretty fun. Picking the tea leaves was a pretty fun experience that allows us to experience the culture of tea on our own in real life. The science museum was pretty fun, but the school only gave us 40 minutes which was not really enough, but I still appreciate the school bringing us there at the end of the “great” trip. It was very mind refreshing after the awesome trip. That is it folks, and this concludes “The Best Trip to Be Ever Recorded in History”.
Our school is a congenital absurdist activity organizer.
Why congenital?
Every activity I participated in was ill-concieved.
Why ABSURD?
Again, ill-concieved.
I ought to be more critical. 😅 I really admire your extensive adaptation of sarcasm and correlating it with positivity, especially how you used it in the first and the start of the last paragraph. “This helps us students to strengthen our senses as well as to build up our mental stability.” No one, not even the organizers of this trip, can call you out for that one, and besides, this form of expression is very effective at showing your hatred for the accommodation. Do be aware of a few vague grammar mistakes though. I suppose you meant “but also in real life experiences,” instead of “but also learning with real life experiences.” I should mention your habit of leaving a gap at the front of each sentence of each paragraph. This makes it slightly easier to distinguish one paragraph from another, but this method of separating paragraphs usually isn’t necessary when there is already a gap between two sentences by default.
An interesting take. I would be interested to know whether your experience of the mental challenge of boredom taught you anything. Was it character building in any way? I like this: :pointlessism (I’m shakespeare, I am allowed to make up my own words as long as it is useful)”. If pointlessism wasn’t a word before, it is now! Maybe you will be able to use it and further define it in your sci-fi blog post 😉
Be careful with statements like this: “Atleast that is how anyone who is not an idiot would think.” The person who made this decision might read your blog and get upset, and what is ‘atleast’?
It is better to give the name in full for “I and S ” because it isn’t common outside IB schools and, this being out there on the web, not all your readers will know what “I and S” means. Check your verb tenses! Consider synonyms for ‘pretty’.
Oh, and images help 🙂
👍The best for real.
Yes
Truly a masterpiece. The priceless accommodation was the greatest place I’ve stayed in since my mother’s womb. The price, specifically ￥2350, was totally, and I mean absolutely an affordable price for these exciting and impeccable activities. I agree with basically everything you proclaimed in your passage, and your implication of euphemism is a valuable asset we can all learn from. Truly “The Best Trip to Ever be Recorded in History.”
I would agree with your point. The price was certainly well-valued for those perfect-quality activities, and we would all agree that this trip was, no doubt, “The Best Trip to Ever be Recorded in History.”