Mood: Sunken
The worse part of going to Sentosa, ever, is when you're with a group of pre school students who thrive on asking questions. Some intelligent, others stoopid and they demand that you answer every single one of them.
As a celebration of underaged people the height of chairs, my centre sent them to the Underwater World on the 30th of sept. What a nightmare it was the days prior to the outing. The kids were asking if we could see Jaws. they specifically said Jaws and asked if they get to see Jaws eat. I wonder which hollywood movie they saw that. And they kept asking what to bring. I told them that the most important one would be a bottle of water. Next would be food or snacks. Other things such as raincoat, caps, sunglasses, foldable fans, books, cameras, pet turtles and their homeworks were secondary.
Remember an ad about this kid who kept repeating, 'Are we there yet?' to his dad while on the road? Imagine 29 kids asking me that on the bus that was travelling on the CTE with the morning rush/jam/insanity. I turned tour guide and these were the 5 top script I used on them.
- Look at that! Suntec City!
- Hey! you saw that?! The Merlion!
- Lookie that! The Esplanade!
- And I saw a helicopter!
- Oh no!! A Fire Engine!
Finally when we reached Underwater World, I made some ground rules. Whatever happens, never let go of your partner's hands. They nodded ernestly but then they ran individually when they saw a peacock which ran helter skelter for dear life into a drain to escape from 29 rabid kids with glistening mischevious eyes.
By the way, I noticed that when cameras are put infront of kids high on oxygen, they tend to do the peace sign or wave at the camera milimetres from the lens. That defeats the purpose of taking their facial features isnt it? So I entertained the kids with a picnic, some photo taking and a tour of the sting-ray tank before entering the Famous Aquarium itself. It has been lightyears ago since I went to the Underwater World and now I was back again for free. How cool is that?
Now, there are fishes that are even bigger than some of my students, one that feature creatures that can only be found in the Antartic ocean and a tank with somethings that looked fossil-like. I can't even read the info plaques since I was busy finding wandering sheeps. And the adorable part was when we were standing at the Dangerous Sea Creatures tank. All my students were expertly exclaiming the names of the fish that they have learnt in class such as the Porcupine Puffer fish, Puffer fish, Lion fish and the Maori eel to name a few when one told me that the eel has died. I asked why he said that and he told cos it looked like it when coincidently the eel lifted its head and did a big yawn exposing its huge mouth complete with sharp teeth. My students panicked and squealed while running to me shouting 'Monster!' hahahahha
So then we travelled under the tunnel tank for 3 rounds where 1 question kept popping up like for a gazillion times.
'Miss Amy, this fish can eat or not?'
The trip was fantastic, no doubt about it. I would love to sink into insanity once again with this people. Before we went off, I brought them to see the turtles and some asked if their pet terrapins can grow to that size. I said anything was possible.
And on the steps of bus before heading back, one of my adorable students exclaimed,
'Miss Amy! you forgot to feed Chuckie [names have been changed to protect the identity of the troublemaker] to the sharks! I tot you said you would if he misbehaves?'
can't believe they fell for that threat.
Don't ask me why he did that.. Too much Kueh Tat prolly