We took a field trip yesterday to a local petting zoo...somehow we consider it to be educational as the students are supposed to learn about living things and their environments. In the USA, field trips are more serious, with permission forms to be collected and transportation requests to be made...however, here, it's a last minute thing. As long as the kids bring money and show up, they can come...then again, some kids ended up going and the school paid...Collecting money from these kids was interesting too...some of them had more money in their pockets than I did...The trip cost about 2.50 in US Dollars, and for an extra 50 cents, they could ride a donkey for what turned out to be about 30 seconds. Some students enjoyed this educational adventure...others looked at it as a chance to run around in the sun, or abuse the animals that were there. All of them ended up playing more in the sand or on the playground that was nearby than they did studying the animals. The owner kindly informed me that my class was the worst group he has ever had...I could put that on my resume...perhaps it was the juice boxes they threw into the duck pond, or the candy wrappers they tried feeding to the crocodile...or maybe it was them kicking the monkeys that they were supposed to be feeding dates to. Either way, I feel that my school was well represented by these upstanding students. If only the crodile was a little bigger...
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