School trips (outings, ''field trips'')

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Didn't anyone else here dislike school trips when you was a child? From the ages 6 to 11 we went on a lot of school trips, and I'm not saying I didn't enjoy them, but sometimes I found it all a bit overwhelming. All the other children got really excited, but I used to feel nervous. I was usually sitting on my own on the coach, and nobody wanted to be paired up with me when we had to have a ''buddy'', and I used to be frightened that I'll get lost, and the weather was always chilly, even if we went in May or June, and we were always standing about a lot which ached my legs. Then the teachers used to get cross with me because when I was between 6 and 8 I had a bad habit of lagging behind (well, who wouldn't when you're lonely and not many of the other children spoke to you?) I enjoyed some school trips, but I always felt bewildered. I remember when I went on a camp in Yorkshire for a week with the school, I kept on crying every day because I wanted to go home. I think the hotel place we stayed in gave me the creeps because it was very old and was quite isolated, and I was worrying about it going on fire for some reason.

Luckily when I got to High School they didn't to school trips so much, and when they did, you didn't have to go and not everyone went anyway so I could get out of it. But when I was a little child I couldn't really argue, just went along with the flow more.
Anyone else found it quite hard to cope on school trips?

My Aspie daughter absolutely ADORES field trips. Of course in her school there are only one or two school trips a year. When there is a field trip is the only school day I do not need to spend about 5 minutes waking her up because she will get up at once. She doesnt have too many friends, but she usually has about 1 or 2 schoolmates she can talk to.

I loved field trips.

ugh...did not like field trips. It was awkward cause i had no one to talk to or hangout with. In HS, I especially hated the picnic days where the entire class would go the the park and just hangout and do fun activities. Most of the time, I would end up by myself sitting under a tree watching other kids having fun. My least favorite day of school year. Mandatory field trips where your required to spend time with your class that you dont even want to be with= aspie torture. I even hate field trips now, if its an arranged trip that you take where theres a whole bunch of people you barely know. Went on a work picnic day, and it was very awkward, hated it and it reminded me of the school picnics. Except everyone's adults and u dont have to deal with all your peers cliquing up and you feeling 100% excluded. See, I like outings, when I get to pick the people to hang with.

I loved them! It was something different than the usual school day and the bus trip there was always exciting.
I especially loved overnight stays, some of my best school memories are from trips that lasted a week or a few days.

It depends where I'm going.

If I'm going somewhere like a museum, a city or a history trip, I get excited!

But if it's to somewhere like a theme park, I still feel happy, but not so much excited.

I don't like zoo trips. They make me sad, seeing the animals in captivity.

I prefer going on trips when I know my friends are going there. Once I went on a school trip and none of my friends were going with me. I got on well with some of the other girls.

I love school trips. My most recent trip to an agricultural show brought with it an especially pleasant surprise! I expected once again to be the only kid walking around with the teachers. My friend was walking around with his other friend who I don't really trust, but despite his friend's objections, he invited me to come with them. After spending about 15 minutes with them, another group decided to tag along with us. My friend's whiney, annoying friend stormed off because he hated someone in the other group.

I also realized that someone in our group whom I'd always thought was trying to irritate me was actually trying to be friendly!

For these reasons, I love school trips. I made new friends and it was really the first time I'd ever felt like a normal teenager! Not normal enough to be considered hypocritical but just... you know, happy!

I was "sick" on every fun schooltrip such as going to a water or attraction park, but I did really enjoy going to old WW2 museums or a tour around a factory/plant of some sort.

The thing is, when I was younger I didn't realize I was doing it myself, and thought I was actually sick.. my mom called it "aanstelleritus" which translates roughly to "fakeritus" and I thought it was something real that made me sick whenever something fun was happening on school.

I enjoyed field trips when I was a child but as I grew older they became boring or upsetting. One place that I always have difficulty at is the zoo I went there in first Grade 7 and then Grade 11 and each time I would have difficulty there

It depended on the field trip... I enjoyed going to museums or places where I could learn things, but the end-of-year trips to amusement parks always stressed me out because they were more of a social thing. I didn't have anyone to hang out with and the teachers would always try to force me into other people's groups, which no one was happy about.

I enjoyed them as a kid, because they would last through the school day and then be over. In high school, though, we had to take a week-long trip to someplace to get some 'culture' or some such nonsense. MISERY.
No friends and generally the locations were boring. I never did like them very much.

I think I mostly liked field trips because at least I wasn't in school then but I remember once in grade school we had a field trip on a boat. I don't think I ever told anyone why but I stayed home from school that day because I was scared that one of my bullies would find it funny to try to push me off the boat. My mother let me because she doesn't like going on boats.

Of course I enjoyed field trips in school. I remember in fifth grade, we went to see the U.S.S. Constitution boat in Boston. My mother chaperoned me on that one because she found it interesting as well, but all the other field trips, I didn't need/have any parent chaperoning me.

My brother and I also would go to summer programs during our public school years, held by the Brockton public school system. We usually had one field trip a week. The summer program we had in elementary had them every Thursday. The summer programs when I was in middle and high school typically had them on Fridays. The summer program we went to from 2001 to 2004 would always have one field trip at the Cape Cod Canal, and at another we'd always go crabbing at Castle Island. I always liked those.

My high school was so broke or something when I was in high school that they couldn't afford the insurance (apparently) for anyone in our grade to go off-site on a field trip (small scale travel for a team or something directly to another school was okay, but not for classes to any random locations like museums or historic sites for some reason). This is funny because once we had an unofficial field trip by our English class where we unofficially met up (car pooled with people's parents) down to the teacher's house an hour away from the school for a BBQ and then went to a musical. It was pretty fun, but if anyone asked, we we had all just "randomly shown up there."

I would have liked to have gone on more field trips. (However, note that in the area it wasn't as though there were very many places within an hour to go... we could have literally had "field" trips, galore, though (hahaha).

I liked them but I also liked being in class.