September 16, 2005

The Zoo...
I had two more field trips this week. The first was some forest trails somewhere. We basically looked at native species to BC for an hour.
Today was a field trip to the Zoo! We had an hour long tour of the zoo, then we spent an hour observing our selected animals; I had chosen the Zebu Cow to observe. It's the breed of cow that's revered in Hindu parts of India, as being a holy cow. So I spent 30 minutes watching a cow chew its cud, and another 30 minutes watching the cows watch me. Yup, that should be enough to do a 3-page write up!
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mandarin? You planning on doing an 8 month tour in China? Being tonally challenged I wouldn't personally know but I've heard that Mandarin is much harder than Cantonese.

Did you take that one out of curiosity or just for credits?

5:53 p.m. PDT
Stephen said...

I'm actually taking it for credit! That kind of scares me a bit, but it's really interesting so far. I'm not sure whether Mandarin or Cantonese is more difficult. Mandarin has 4 main tones, while Cantonese has 7 (I think). In any case, it's more of a challenge than Spanish would be.

10:07 a.m. PDT

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