My Journey Through Nature

By: Jaron

On October 29, 2001, I went on a field trip to the Tuskegee National Forest Park in Tuskegee and the Mann Museum and Outdoors in Opelika. As the days grew shorter, I was getting more and more anxious. When the day finally came, I was ready to go.

When I first boarded the bus, I did not know who I was going to sit with, and I ended up sitting with Gerrod. Then people on the bus started to talk. While they were talking, I asked Gerrod could I play his Gameboy, and he said yes, after about 5 times I asked him.

After that, everything started to get boring, and everybody got quiet. It seems like the whole bus was about to go to sleep. I grabbed my cards from inside my bag and started to shuffle them. I became tired of them and put them up. A few minutes later, we finally got there.

We finally got off the bus, and when we did, we met a Forest Ranger named Willie Humphrey. Mr. Humphrey taught us a lot about the water. He told us that a stream couldn’t flow. He also showed us an otter dam that blocked up the water and made a lake.

Afterwards, we got back on the bus and went to the Mann Museum and Outdoors. When we got there we ate first. While we were eating lunch, we laughed, joked, and some of us fed the deer. After we ate, we went inside the museum and took notes on the animals and then went home. That is what I did on my field trip.