Wales

Wales field trip
(which actually turned into a field day for all involved)

Longshore drift! Marloes Sands!
How wonderful it all sounds when Noraika says it. Noraika, the legend that just couldnt get away from his canoe's and loved his stones and rocks. So, off we went to Wales, in the search of 'sediment'. Hmm, sounds fun. Well, you know us, we make it fun and although at times it was tough, we struggled on and made the field trip into an all time great.
Where do we start. The Youth Hostel I suppose. A barn. Basically, I wouldn't want my sheep to sleep in there. Na, that's what we expected and we were surprised to find quite decent accomadation. 5 star in fact, appart from the fact that the door to our room didn't open...well...it took some pushing anyway. As for the food, well unbelievably it was probably the best food ever on a school trip and loads of it too! Chips, pizza etc, but let's not forget those yogurts which we all tried. Hmm.

THE COURSEWORK ITSELF.
So off we march on a ten mile hike to Marloes sands, treading in who knows what along the way. Now, they say the weather in Wales isn't good. Come on! How can they say that?!? Rain, hale, sleet etc...u name it, we had it...and we STILL continued to 'measure rocks!' Oh, that youth hostel had a halo round it, how we wished to be back there. We made up songs to get us through the day...Abel being songwriter number one, we threw stones at each other and searched tirelessly for a football to play with, but nope, in the end it all came down to 'measuring rocks'. And the funniest thing is, we made up all the results when we got back to suit what we wanted, so really the measurements were irrelevant, especially after SOMEBODY lost them. (Shammile, Abel?)

THAT NIGHT
Firstly, we did loads of stuff in that youth hostel and I will probably leave something out so forgive me fellow Geo students. It all started i suppose, when we were sitting in the tv room watching the champs league match, when Bowman runs in shouting, 'you're supposed to be in the classroom!' We were already in the teachers bad books, but football comes first. Actually, it probably all started when we chose our room. Tom, Darren, Abel, Daniel, Anup, Raman, Schammile and the one and only Sab's. Oh no! He wasn't actually in our room, somebody just mentioned him so often we thought he was. But that room really is asking for trouble and how we were allowed it I will never know. Anyway, the first night was ok...just a bit of monopolly (�300 for a get out of jail FREE card! lol) and some eminem BLASTED out. Ok, so we were a little loud, but did it warrent Noraika coming in and shouting 'I need some F****ng sleep! lol, yeh, i suppose it did actually! Especially as we were banging on his wall for no reason!
Then came the second night. Oh, what a night! Raman had the wonderfull idea of wetting some toilet tissue and running down the hall to Rob etc's room and throwing it in. Great, we all thought. So we wait hours for the dutchies to go to bed and these are the events that unfolded...

3 AM: Everyone (bar Anup) wets tissue...runs down the hall and throws it into Rob's room...pretty tame.
3:10 AM: Raman has a great idea! Let's do it again! So we all have more courage now and leg it down armed with loads of tissue, this time fully advancing into Rob's room and throwing it all over them. Brilliant.
3:12 AM: We all run out of the room and back up the corridor. Suddenly we see a dutch teacher! Surely she will tell Bowman, so we all sprint to our room, only to find the door won't open! Disaster! Surely it's jammed again. So we ALL barge against the door in panic.
3:15 AM: Unbelievable. Somebody (and who was it?) barges against the fire exit door! OFF GO THE ALARM BELLS! 3:15 and the whole place is awoken. Suddenly our door opens.
3:17 AM: ''Jump into bed and pretend we are asleep!'' we all decide! Na, let's be honest...who else could have done this? It was so obviously us, so we decided to admit it.
3:20 AM: In runs Newell of all people, (Thankfully). She gives us a rollocking and we all decide we will NEVER do anything like that again.

Dawn arrives and Anup admits something unbelievable. He locked us out of our own room for a joke...the whole reason the door didn't open! The looks we got at the breakfast table the next morning...well if looks could kill. How we got away with it I will never know but it was one of THE classic stories of any trip. And as for Anup...

OTHER LITTLE THINGS NOT TO BE FORGOTEN
1: Phoning Steven about 50 times and saying nothing, and then Darren telling Steve that it wasn't him when he got back.
2: Buffy Buffy!
3: Puuuuuuuuuuna!
4: Daniel's affection's for Sab's.
5: Pierre putting that message underneath the Dutch girl's door.
6: Jerry the coach driver and his 50p cans. Kept us alive at times.

Overall, a great trip, but if I hear Longshore drift one more time...!

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