Five Days of Fun
We've finished all our school work, but for the next week, we all have a legal obligation to keep showing up anyway. So we're doing fun stuff. Starting with public transportation. It turns out that more than half my students have never taken the bus anywhere (apart from the big yellow school bus, which doesn't count). So this morning we walked down to the corner of Main and Willow, each clutching a dollar and a quarter, and picked up the #25 over to Binghamton University. We goofed around there for a while, then headed back. On the return trip we had the same driver, who was curious as to what we were doing, so I told him. He then very kindly explained to the students that if they ever had any questions, they should ask the Bus Driver, because the Bus Driver was There To Help.
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Hmm - I wrote more but the system lost it so here goes again ...
They get dropped off at various places around the city and told to take a bus to eg New Brighton beach. Lots of other things are mysteries to our lot - eg the beach itself, shopping malls, traffic lights ...