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OKAY. TODAY'S TRIP.
Today, Melissa, Gene and Natalie went for the Evolution Garden tour training at 9am at Botanical Gardens :DD
Psst. Melissa took the pictures. (She's also speaking xD- Nat)

There were about 3 different group tours, and this was the group we followed. Which consisted of only, uh, four people.

This is apparently an ammonite, it's a type of ancient mollusk. It went extinct about 65 million years ago >_> This is a real fossil!

Here's the entrance to the EVOLUTION GARDEN! The garden is 1.3ha and it was built over a period of 1 year at a cost of $2.8million.

The time the earth was formed and there were no living things.

When plants first appeared, which were the algae and liverworts. Algae has fronds that are kind of springy and liverworts are flat and circular. :)
[Top left: Mel's shoe, bottom left: Nat's shoe, right: Gene's shoe x)]

Period of the Great Coal Swamps. There were more plants and they were growing higher.

These are Lepidodendrons. They're extinct, so these are fake. They seem scaly but the scales are really the leaves.

This is our guide, Shulee(spelling?) and she's still in secondary school. But she knows her plants very well. She's also a tour guide at Sungei Buloh. >_> She's gesturing at the Chicken Tail Fern.(I think) Because the brown thing inside looks like a chicken tail. The Chinese eat it as a delicacy. But it's hard to get in it without any hand protection cause the branches are covered with black thorns.


The tour continued, the trees and plants were getting more diverse and taller. We walked to the small section of Rainforest where there was a banana plant. Apparently, banana fruits don't grow downwards, they grow upwards. Shulee plucked a unripe banana and it was very sticky .o_o

Mel didn't take alot of pictures so other bits of the tour will be put in after every tour session. :)

And here is a group photo where Mel looks utterly unphotogenic :c

Evolution tour group peoples will update again on the last Saturday for this month, till then JIAYOU for the Rainforest group peoples, Trisha and Grace on 11/7/07 :DDDD

guys! i finally managed to change the blogskin. go me:) oh well. hohoho. HANAROKU is the best! muahahaha. scroll down(all the way) then you can see the pretty flower. had real difficulty arranging): the results of my labour.

XD we need a chatbox people. Grace , mind if we use your email cause trisha,me,mel,alynna and natalie all have blogs and have chatboxes yah? you have no choice, really. muahahaha.

-gene zors

Natalie here to inform you about Hana. We are currently tour guides at the Singapore Botanic Gardens . Cool huh? (:

---Group Members!
Natalie - Leader (Taichou)
Alynna - Assistant leader (Fukutaichou)
Gene - File Manager
Melissa - Researchist
Grace L. - Treasurer and Assistant Secretary
Trisha - Secretary and logo designer/ group artiste

---Tour guiding group division (pairs)
_Evolution Garden Tour guides:_
*Alynna and Natalie
*Gene and Melissa

_Rainforest Tour Guides:_
*Grace and Trisha


That is what we're doing currently. We can alway swop over though.

You know what group? I'm really, really glad that you're my group members. I can't think of any other group i'd rather be in. (:
Jia you Hana!

Tuesday, 2nd of April.
Hellooos all! This is the Hana IPW blog. Note: We rock! (:
Yes. On Tuesday we went to the Singapore Botanic Gardens and-WE GOT IN.
They have accepted us! After the Visitors Officer got all our contacts, she issued us some sort of Tour Guide Training Manual Notes. (what a mouthful :))
First we were super nervous because we left only 20 minutes before the meeting! We freaked and finally got a taxi only to split up, and realise all those with handphones sat in one cab and all those without, i the other. Luckily the second half told the cab to follow ours, so we all got there together- and punctually!
Then, we met the lady.
She told us that to be tour guides, after undergoing training to be sufficiently capable to manage a large group of people efficiently, we will be going to guide groups of people. And after 10 hours, we get Staff Tee shirts! So that we can enjoy many priveledges like discounts at the store and cafe. We also get to go to gardens for free, without the entrance fees. :)
I'm proud of Hana for getting in. Because there are hardly any under-16s there, but we've managed to get accepted. (:
We shall start soon!
Evolution garden-This Saturday.
Rainforest Tour-Next Saturday.

See ya!

~Natalie was here :D

Wai hello all to the IPW blog :)
It's Mel here. Nothing much to say really, 'cept I'm worried for the interview tomorrow >_>
The blogskin's still very stubborn, it's giving me a headache. D:
I'll fix it when I have time.
So....ya.
Ja Neeee~