Mr. Vlasic's camping trip
I've been hearing about Mr. Vlasic's camp outs.
Who's got a story to share about that?
Today the parents wouldn't trust a teacher to take kids camping. What a privilege you guys must have felt to be able to experience that.
I understand he would do this every year with a different class.
Beth
posted by Beth @ 7:11 PM
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Yes, I did this quite frequently making camping trips. Do any of you remember the Sunday trips to IU Northwest to see Audubon films? This may have been in earlier years when I would load up the car with perhaps six students. We drew names from a can for each film every month.
I even made one trip to Washington DC from BS. Anyone on that trip (I sent Debbie the photos) should remember the bus overheating. We only had a paper cup to fill the radiator, so we made a line of students from bus to roadside ditch and brought the water up cup by cup. We limped into a town to find repairs--that's another story. We tried to continue these trips every year (as they were very popular) until the Diocese School Office (and Sr. Maurita) stopped them. BS was getting too fancy for them! I simply did the Audubon thing, took the trip in subsequent years with the car and only a few students.
When I changed jobs to Portage, I did the same thing with greater frequency. I even bought land inside a state forest in Michigan to make a permanent camp. I also did bus trips to Washington and even Disney World during Spring recess.
Feeling the girls were left out, I tried one camping trip with girls using a female friend of mine as chaperone. Now that was an experience!!
Exactly, Beth, you'd never even consider suggesting these kinds of things now. It is painfully a different world--at least so far as authority and rules go.
Mr. Vlasic took me ice fishing one time, today the world would crap they're drawers. When I came home my dad hit the roof, (who would have thought) but I think he was thinking, why is this grown man taking my son ice fishing LOL, oh well, I brought home a bunch of blue gills and put em in our bathtub, I wanted to keep them alive until I killed them. He really was a good guy, different, but cool
Oh my God Jim, there you are!?! I was wondering when you would pipe in.
I do remember those fish floating around the tub. Although there many strange things floating around that house of ours. Wouldn't you say???
Maybe that is why I hate fish today. That smell eek!!!!!!!!
I remember scrubbing the tub with BLEACH.
I hope that you Paul and Johnny put one of your famous stories on the blog soon. You guys are hilarious.
Beth
I remember Mr. Vlasic being a good teacher. Go camping with him? He wasn't that good. NOT!! Scary
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