Summer Moment (in 3rd person)

Last summer, Lizzy took Geoscience in summer school, just to get it out of the way.  On the second to last week, her teacher announced that the class would be going on a field trip to a nature museum in Milwaulke Wisconsin.  (Which was odd, because there are many good nature museums in Chicago.)  So they were given excursion cards and told that the bus ride there would take about an hour and a half.  They were also told that they would need to get another chaperone in order to go.  Enter John Konchar.

            John was a pretty cool guy.  He was a graduated senior, preparing to go off to the Navy to be a nuclear technician, and a mutual friend of many people ion the class.  He agreed to accompany them to Milwaulke as their chaperone.

            The bus ride was long and boring.  When the students arrived at the Museum (at about 10:00), they were told to wander around until 10:30, when they would gather by the museum’s theater to watch an educational film.  Lizzy’s group wandered through the indoor village of “Old Milwaulke” (a fake old-time village fully outfitted with fake people.), and then through the fossil wind.

            At 10:30, they congregated at the theater, waiting to watch a movie about Lage Mouth Bass.  (Which turned out to be very dull.)  They took their seats and watched as a school of Bass moved upstream to their spawning grounds.  All of a sudden, a huge bear lunged toward the fish, managing to catch one in its mouth.  Then the picture and sound faded out.  Lizzy and her classmates sat there for a few moments, trying to figure out if this was a part of the movie.  Next to Lizzy, John Konchar jumped up.  He stepped out into the aisle and ran up to the projection booth.  A few minutes later, the film was back on.  John returned to his seat next to Lizzy.

            “What did she do?”  Lizzy asked him.

“I fixed it,” he replied.  Lizzy was impressed.  The rest of the trip went on without incident.  A couple of hours later, they were back home.  John Konchar is now away at the Navy, and Lizzy will never forget how he actually managed to be a good chaperone.