Today is the end of Teachabout’s second
week – time flies when you’re having fun! After cultivating bacteria from dirty
hands and feet in agar plates, the kids got a taste of a real laboratory. They
were disgusted to see and smell bacteria that grow on us every day. It was a good
reminder of why it’s important to wash your hands. It was also an exciting
chance to use, some for the first time, a high-powered microscope that allowed
them to see what bacteria really look like up close!
This morning, a timely downpour was not
enough to extinguish a fiery first day of filming the Teachabout music video. Rita
and Tash took the kids to various locations around Minyerri for the busting of
moves. Meanwhile, in an activity using English and local Kriol words, Georgi
and Morgan found themselves learning just as much as the kids.
What do you think of when I say 5 straws
and a ping-pong ball? Watercraft? Exactly! This afternoon, Gunners and I
challenged the kids to make a watercraft using only the straws, ping pong ball
and tape that would support the weight of a heavy object. Estherlita shone,
creating a craft that could carry almost all the weight we had!
The kids were more than slightly keen to go
for a swim at the first river crossing on the road out of Minyerri, so we piled
into the troopies and headed on our way. First things first: mud fight! It
raged on all afternoon, resulting in a lingering, irrepressible fear of a mud
ball coming out of nowhere. The Activity
Leaders doubled as platforms for backflips and 5-seater rafts in the flowing
waters. Demonstrating impeccable timing, Savannah discovered a mud crab with
freshly hatched babies crawling on their mum, and Sage schooled me in the art
of capturing tiny fish, effortlessly plucking them from the security of their
pylon protected water world. 
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