A Teachers Only Field Trip

Rafting was nothing like expected and yet hilarious because we had to make it that way or people coulda been real pissed off, but I am jumping ahead.

Our bosses rented a charter-type bus for the day to transport 40 some-odd employees 2 hours away to the place we were going. When we got there and off the bus we had some pretty upset people who thought that they were not going to have to go rafting and then did have to go…So they life-vested, helmeted, and oared us up after using a whistle to coral and make us stand-up and sit down (I think for head counts, but it was really weird and many shooting jokes ensued.
We were also forbidden to bring the drinks with us on the raft…disappointment and anger rang through the crowd, but in reality once we got on the raft there was no time to drink.

Finally we were to make it into 8-9 people groups to raft together. Ours consisted of 1 guy I did not know (Korean teacher), Jihn (from our M-School a Korean-English teacher) Jeremy, Terry, Sarah, Aiden, Chris, Liam, me and the Guide. What we didn’t take into account was the fact the river was a little low and that all together a whole group of foreigner’s weighs twice as much as a group of Koreans so we should have mixed it up better as one of the other boats did. But all of our getting stuck and having trouble with the instructor was made fun by us making fun and joking etc. That is the true point. Towards the end there was a run and dive thing that reminded you of a cross between America’s Funniest Home Videos and a Japanese Game Show. We were able to also just swim and that was nice. Finally we stormed the other shore and changed and some got to ride ATV’s (too long a line at first and not enough bikes people lost interest). Lastly we were allowed to shoot 10 Paintball pellets.

For the final part of the day we got back on the bus and went to eat. Kimchi, fish, crab stuff and then people had brought stuff for hamburger/hotdogs and they fried that up and ate that too. Watermelon was cut, beer was consumed and the bus ride home was spent jovial and sleeping by half and half of the bus.

Home and shower-not too bad sunburn (just the parts missed by sunscreen on arms and my knees. Hope to get copies of pics from Sarah and Aiden and from Brandon soon, and have a couple to post from my cameras, but they have the whole truly waterproof thing going on with theirs. Anyway---maybe not the best actual rafting trip, but who can resist fun people and water sports.