Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Questions and Answers

Thank you third and fourth graders for the questions you sent to us last week. We are gathering the answers.

Until then please enjoy the new pictures we've just added. We all laughed at one very interesting question about the chimps. Someone said "when the fruit hit you on the head, did it hurt?"

Well, it was surprising, but it did not hurt. The fruit was a fig, about the side of a large marble. Since they were looking for the ripe ones, the apes would toss down the unripe green kind, but they only weigh as much as a a bottle cap.

We also enjoyed the questions about insects. You cannot IMAGINE how many insects there are here--mosquitos, beetles, mango flies that lay eggs in your socks when you leave them outside and prefer the tastes of certain colors (Annie's socks with pink hearts were their favorite), ants as big a piece of long-grain rice and that HURT when they get up your pants, grasshoppers the size of your thumb (if you are a local, you catch them and fry them up for snacks), knats, praying mantis, butterflies, and oh...did we mention mosquitos?!?

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