Excitement levels were running high today as it was the grade 1 and grade 3 field trip to Beijing zoo! We piled onto the buses and off we went, thankfully with 3 parent helpers on the bus and 4 parents meeting us at the zoo. First on the agenda was to go to the aquarium and watch the dolphin show, which the kids loved. We then split up into smaller groups and I was with 2 children and the other teacher had 2 children so we went round the zoo together, starting with the elephants. The enclosure for the elephants was a bit depressing as it was a small room behind bars where the elephants could just about walk round in a circle in, but luckily for us the kids were not interested in the elephants, they were more interesting in something else. “Miss Pippa, look at it’s poop! It’s soooo big!” one of the kids shouted, it was true, it was bigger than the kids head! We ushered them out pretty quickly as it wasn’t a nice enclosure and we went to see the tigers which their project was on. By this time it was 12pm so we stopped for lunch at some of the benches, then it was off to see more animals. We had to meet back at the main gate at 1.20pm so it was a bit rushed, but overall I would say it was a successful field trip and everyone seemed to have had a nice day.
We got back to school and let the kids play on the playground for 30 minutes, then it was home time! Matt met me at the school as we were going to the green cap with some of the other teachers for food and a few drinks. We got to the green cap, an Irish bar about a 20 minute taxi drive away and had a really nice dinner (the school packed lunch consisted of a ham and egg sandwich, a packet of crisps, an apple, two hard boiled eggs and a juice, I had given most of it away and just had the juice, crisps and traded my apple for an orange) I think most of the teachers had done the same because we were all really hungry. We stayed for drinks and it was a really nice relaxed evening, then shared a taxi home with one of the other teachers.
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