Wipewitaleaf Pt. 1 / Preeminent
The Trip to Wipewitaleaf Part 1.
Preeminent- foremost; surpassing all others; very distinguished
Ex: The 5th grade field trip to the Wipewitaleaf Nature Center (name is of Indigenous American origin) was easily the most highly anticipated event of the whole school year. For three days and two nights, the chipper little rascals of Tikory Tokton Elementary would be ditching their IPads and VR headsets and venturing into the untamed wilderness of upstate Connecticut (the final frontier) to become better acquainted with mother earth, that most foreign, elusive matron. Other than a few stay-at-home-dad chaperones, the kids would be in the hands of the Wipewitaleaf staff. Amongst the crunchy, dank-smelling employees were preeminent ecological researchers in the areas of fungus communication and bark health, a couple of professional composters, a few tree-hugging burnout types who may or may not have spilled the contents of a liquid acid blotter on their hands at a Phish show and now prefer to talk to foliage rather than people, and the man responsible for capturing the essence of a white birch tree and turning it into a regionally popular soda.
As the school bus passed through the two totem poles with carvings of native Connecticut animals like squirrels and opossums and high schoolers with bowl cuts wearing pastel colored Vineyard Vines Shep Shirts signaling the entrance to Wipewitaleaf, they were greeted with friendly waves from the staff assembled in two parallel lines flanking the gravel driveway. The bus opened up and the Tokton students deboarded in a chaotic whirlwind of dizzying excitement. “I’m gonna take so many pisses outside!” shouted Ralphie. “I’m going to see if my slingshot is strong enough to kill a blue jay” spat the stone faced Eastern European transfer student Mirko. “I’m going to rub poison ivy on my wiener!” exclaimed Eric the class clown.
To be continued.