The Memories on the Bus

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STUDENTS LOOK BACK AT THEIR FAVORITE MEMORIES FROM GENEVA BUSES. Words | Jackson Young

If you don’t already know, Geneva is planning on buying two new buses. For the past years, we have had two small buses and one big bus. However, with the new addition, we will now have a few more options as more people need the buses.

“What we want to do is get a medium-sized bus that’s going to be a 28-32 passenger bus,” Matt Howard, Booster Club president, said. “We are also going to add another small bus like the existing ones.” When asked about the specifics of the buses, Howard said, “We are going to get buses, but we don’t know exactly what they’re going to look like … the one thing I always try to harp on is ‘keep things simple’ but also, we should buy stuff we know is going to keep the kids safe.”

With the anticipation of these new buses, I feel it’s appropriate to look back on some of the best stories from good times spent on the old buses …

Football: Brock Ambelang (11th)

“My freshmen year, we were on our way home from a football game from, I think, Marble Falls. For about the first 30 minutes on the bus, a bunch of guys were snapchatting with their flash on, and Coach Brock (who was driving) got super mad and yelled at us. And then, about thirty minutes later, someone (I don’t even know who) threw a banana peel out the window, and that sent Coach Brock over the edge. When we got back to school at like one in the morning, he made us do a ton of up-downs in the freezing cold.”

Cheer: Lydia duPerier (12th)

“We were on the way to Cheer Camp during the summer. There were too many cheerleaders to all fit in the bus, so we took turns riding the bus and riding in the car. I had just switched to get on the bus for the first time, and not even ten minutes later, I felt a bump and heard a loud noise. Coach pulled over, and sure enough, the back right tire had blown out. I immediately went back to the car and made the freshmen sit on the bus. I thought we would never make it to camp. Luckily, this random cowboy came out from the ranch we pulled over in front of and directed us to a tire shop that was like three miles away. So we drove the three miles with three wheels … It was a very scary experience.”

Basketball: Riley Tippit (11th)

“It was our first away game this year with Coach Evans, and we were playing SACS in a scrimmage. After we won, we were heading back home on the bus, and it was raining super hard. Unfortunately, the bus doors would not close all the way, so there were random gushes of water that would come in through the doors and soak the coach. It also got the first two rows, the ceiling and the floor soaked. While coach was driving, he got a towel and had to keep wiping his face so that he could see the rest of the way back.”

Volleyball: Lily Langenbahn (10th)

“Before the state volleyball game, we were playing our hype playlist, and [everyone] blasted the music. Then the driver hit a speed bump, and Coach Vaughn spilled her coffee on herself and the people sitting next to her. We were all laughing, and Avery Myrick started laughing so hard that she had to use her inhaler.”

Magazine: Anson Eggerss (12th)

“We were coming back from journalism camp during the summer going into junior year, and suddenly, I began to sweat. And this wasn’t just your average profuse sweating, this was an overwhelming amount of liquid escaping from my pores. I surveyed the rest of the bus, and many of my peers were in the same situation. Apparently, the A/C had gone out, and the 125 degree weather had begun to wreak havoc on our transportation unit. Cold water bottles were being poured onto people’s faces and the rest of us were shedding layers as we clung on for dear life. It was miserable.”