I've Been To The Zoo!

And my Dad landed in England.

At 11.20 we rolled out from Southend in a special East15 mini bus (it was so fancy, it had East15 written on the side). Forty minutes later we arrived at Colchester Zoo where we spent the rest of the day. We are doing a project called animal studies, where we basically have to find an animal, study it, become it, make a human version of it and fight like it. Easy to play animal you say? You have not tried to look like a convincing bear on all four when you don’t have a single patch of fur on your body.  But we do get a free trip to the zoo, so we’re pretty lucky. 

What I think my class will remember the best however, was the playground (for the children) at the zoo. It was one of the bigger, sturdier and cooler once. When we were supposed to go home, we let loose in there first. Visit the zoo? For quite a while we were the zoo. 

Even Nick, the head of our course (and 60-something years old) took the tunnel corkscrew slide several times.

We arrived back in Southend at 18.05, at which point I got a phone call from my dad who said he had just put his bags down in the guest house. He then rendezvoused with him and my aunt from Denmark and had dinner at an Italian restaurant. He had also brought with him chocolate and seasoning from Norway. 

Life is good when you have family that can bring precious goods from your home country. 

At 21.07 I was finally back in my own room, full, exhausted and satisfied. Now I’m going to bed.