This year’s Senior Trip was a trip to Medieval Times; the senior class went back in time to experience life in the middle ages.
Upon entering the castle, we were bought into a large auditorium where there were drinks being sold and different souvenirs you could buy. At Medieval Times, the given meal was a chicken wing, corn, a potato and some garlic bread which the students had to eat with their hands because that’s the way life was back then. There were no forks or knives and all they had were their hands.
The knights were fighting for the love of the princess, whoever won all of the challenges, would get the chance to marry her. Each knight wore a different color. The audience was split into teams in which they had to cheer for their knights to win! Throughout dinner, all the different teams compete on their horses in a jousting challenge. The different color teams are black & white, blue, red & yellow, yellow and green. When our school was there, the winner was the Green Knight, of course the opposite color that our school was on, we were red and yellow. After our team lost, the rest of the trip was kind of boring and got old fast.
At the beginning of the year, we tried to get our field trip changed but it was too complicated to find a place that we could all go for a cheap price. Students wanted to travel back to Fairview, like they did in 7th grade as a sort of looking back field trip, but that wasn’t allowed. A lot of the students were disappointed in the field trip choice and not even half of the seniors attended. Of those who went, most said they would have rather have gone somewhere else, but they made the most of it and had fun with their friends. It was kind of more of a history lesson than a fun field trip, but there was nothing students could really do about it. Most students said that they felt out of place being that the audience was filled with elementary schools. Senior Lia Heusser said, “Medieval Times was okay, I would have rather something more for our age group but eating with our hands was something different.” Overall, the trip was successful and the students made the best of it.
