School Field Trips From My Childhood: Seventh Grade

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In seventh grade, my class went to Sacramento to see a theater performance of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, along with some other plays based on short stories we had read. It was a very cool experience. I rarely ever got to go to the city as a kid so anytime I got to go there as part of a school trip, it was pretty exciting. The only other field trip I recall from that year was an end of year swimming party, but by that point all field trips had to have some educational purpose, so my Math & Science teacher fibbed and told the school district it was essential for us to go to the pool to demonstrate our submarine projects, which we had to build and make float, sink, and float again. But very little time was dedicated to that and most the time we were playing in the pool. This one girl I was friends with, Rebekah, kept wanting to climb up on my shoulders while we were in the pool, but I couldn't hold up her body weight and kept going under. Rebekah was mentally delayed and often behaved like a little kid, throwing temper tantrums and having meltdowns and whatnot. Nobody ever outright said she was delayed but I eventually figured it out. (Her family was very weird too.) Almost everyone in our grade hated her, and I was also pretty hated by the other kids our age, so I befriended her. But she was a hard person to be friends with, and the friendship didn't last past middle school. Anyway, I don't really remember much about the pool party in seventh grade other than she kept trying to drown me. (Thanks again to @Courtlynn for the inspiration for this post series.)