Thursday, July 25th. NINTH DAY – VERMONT NATURE TRAIL
Tired this morning...We were at school early to get set up.
Today we wanted to have the groups back in their subject groups so that they
could present the lessons they prepared on Tuesday. But first we had to have
them in the three colour groups for attendance. Then I explained how the
rotation was going to work with the presentations, George's computer lab
workshop and me trying to fit an hour in at the end of one of each of their
classes to talk a bit about Canada. I had downloaded a lot of photos of Canada
to show them.
We finally got that all organized and they did what they
needed to do. It is interesting though that none of the ministry people came to
see what the participants had prepared. Oh well, we ran their workshop for
them.
After lunch Jane took us with Wayne to the Vermont Nature
Trail. We had to drive for a half hour to get there along the hilly, windy
roads. The two women who supervised it were just leaving and walking down the
road, when they flagged us down and asked where we were going. When we told
them we walked to hike the trail they got in the van and we drove them back to
it. The trail winds up and down hills through the incredibly lush rainforest.
The plants are beautiful and many of the trees are huge. It took us about two
hours to hike. It almost did George in as he has one wonky knee and the
opposite hip is also sore. We heard but did not see the Vincie Parrot. This
park is their habitat and has been set up to attempt to provide them a safe
place to live. There are only about 500 left in the wild.
Then we came back for dinner. We got back home and found Ken talking to two local men who were planting
sweet potato in the field next to his house. They chopped up three coconuts for
us to drink. Not bad, but I'm not crazy about it.
After dinner we repackaged all the gifts, typed and the like
before heading off to bed.
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