Neighborhood walk

Sarah had a field trip today, I chaperoned or herded 22 kids. There were 3 other adults, 2 stayed at the end of the line and Ms.Kimura stayed at the front not turning around once to make sure every one was following. I got to be the one who said pretty much for an hour straight "fill up the gaps, look left and right before crossing the streets, find your partner, hold hands, don't run and pull on your partner;oops you fell all right don't do it again, oops your doing it again, listen to Ms. Kimura." It was like parenting on amphetamines(I could never be a teacher). We all got through it though and Ms.Kimura got some cute pictures in the end. Now I am ready for about 24 hours of sleep.
It was a good idea for a field trip because Ms.Kimura would stop every once in a while and tell the kids a little bit about their every day surroundings. She told them about fire hydrants; not parking by them so that the fire trucks could, the drainage ditch;where does the water come from, why it has less water or more, and why it can get stinky, looking left and right before crossing the street (which maybe 1 or 2 kids actually did), and finally 7-11; what kind of things you get there and how you pay for it before you walk out. Hopefully it gave the kids a better understanding of every day life, if anything else they seemed to like being outside and looking at everything; some boys got really excited when they saw a Ferrari, a couple of kids were excited to point out their neighborhoods or condos;or hotel for one boy who was confused about the difference between condo and hotel, Sarah thought the same thing for the longest time. They were all really cute and very good kids.