a day at the zoo.

Yesterday we took a school-wide field trip to the zoo! And when I say zoo, I don’t mean good ole John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, or any zoo in America for that matter. This zoo consisted of some ducks, a couple of moneys, some owls, two big pits of snakes, and the main attraction… A PANTHER. The panther was pretty awesome, actually the whole zoo was awesome, actually the whole DAY was awesome. Let us start from the beginning… First, we gathered the children, gave them colored coated name tags, emergency contact number included, and each of us “adults” were assigned a group to take care of. I had a group of seven precious little gems. At first I was kind of concerned that I was going to lose a child, or they would climb in the panthers cage or something like that, but none of the above happened so that was really great! Anyway, we started off piling into rickshaws, and when I say pile.. I really mean pile. I wish I had documented this portion of the day, but I was stuck in a rickshaw surrounded by 11 kids, with no way to get out. There were kids stuffed into these rickshaws like none other, just imagine those cars that like billions of clowns come out of. That was us, but with a rickshaw and cute little Indian children instead. Anyway, once we got to the zoo we checked out all of the animals, there was also a nice little playground that the kids loved. There was this merry-go-round-eque thing (picture below) People were pushing kids around, it was all fun and games... Until Simon, one of the little boys had too much. Did he say anything though? Oh no. He decided to wait for a while… until it was too late. Vomit. Everywhere. Yum. But, he was a champ about the whole situation. He cleaned himself up and ate lunch 15 minutes later. After viewing all of the animals, and the puking situation, and the lack of toilets with an abundance of full bladders (we found a nice little hidden corner that did just fine), we had a picnic! It was wonderful, blankets laid out, some yummy rice stuff (it has an Indian name, but I currently am forgetting it) afterwards we played some games and just hung out. Then, we piled back into the rickshaws again and headed back to the school! Such a great little day. Here are some pictures :)