This past weekend I TA'd my first field trip. It's the intro field trip, so it was the students' first time in the field looking at rocks. The highlight of the trip was me completely obliterating a bale of hay in the geology van full of students that I was driving while going 70 on the highway. I was the third van in our caravan, and by the time the first two had swerved to avoid it I didn't have any time to switch lanes so I just had to hit it head on! The students in the back of my van shot up about 6 inches (sure woke them up!), and when I looked back in my rear view mirror there were pieces of hay exploding everywhere. It was quite the experience.