School Field Trips From My Childhood: First Grade

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In first grade we had a lot of farm-based field trips. We went to a dairy farm and the farmer informed us that within the next five years, we would all have eaten one of the cows on his farm. That disturbed me and I think that was a really weird thing to tell a bunch of first graders, especially knowing there were a bunch of Sikh and Hindu kids in my class, who didn't eat meat. We also went to the Bonanza Seed farm and cannery, which was a disappointment to me. You see I thought we were going to visit the set of Bonanza, and that I was going to get to meet Little Joe and Hoss. I was very angry that the "ranch" we'd visited was not, in fact, the ranch from the TV show, and instead I had to spend my day learning about how they canned fruit and removed seeds from things like cantaloupes. We each got an empty Bonanza Seed can as a souvenir. I remember on the bus ride back to the school, we passed by a billboard for the Bonanza Inn, and I furiously thought "Dumb ol' Bonanza, I guess they're everywhere now." We also went to Art Day at the high school when I was in first grade. I got separated from my group on that field trip and freaked out that I would be lost forever. Luckily I found another group of kids from my class and they returned me to my chaperone, who hadn't even noticed I was missing. (Thanks to @Courtlynn for the inspiration for this post series.)