Talent development

At Enrich we are doing our passion projects.  Well...  not all of us are up to passion projects yet.  The people who were here last year are the only ones doing passion projects at the moment.  The newbies are doing talent development first. You got to choose out of three different options for your talent development - Art [mosaics], ICT [robotics], and Science [nature].  I am doing nature science, and we are learning about animal adaptations.  To learn about adaptations, our group [there are only three of us], went on a walk to the museum to see the tuataras.  We saw three adult ones and about nine baby ones.  One of the adult ones was back in it's burrow by the time we left, but we saw it moving and I think that is the most I've ever seen a tuatara move.  It was moving pretty fast too.  The baby ones moved the most of all.  We tried to take a few photos of them, but they kept crawling around too much!  After the museum, we went to the duck pond in Queens Park and took a look at the ducks.  We learned that the female duck isn't as bright as the male duck!  The female duck blends into her surroundings, [the female is brown and so are the trees and dirt] so that she can protect her eggs from predators.  After we took some photos of the ducks, we went to see all the other animals.  First we went to see the rabbits.  We saw that some of them were blending into their surroundings, just like the ducks.  Next, we went to see the pigs.  They were Auckland Island pigs, and boy, were they smelly!  We kept on going.  We went to see the deer.  There was this big male one with HUGE antlers and he looked MAD with a capital M!  The female was beautiful though, and she had these sweet brown eyes.  We had an awesome trip.