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Hey all (: Nat here. Mel gonna insert pictures later. M'kay.

Okay. So the on 2nd June, we went guiding again. Yes. Except this time we convinced Shuyi and Julia to let us lead. :D So anyway.
Mel and Gene were terrified because we were leading a bunch of teenagers like us, plus a lady that turned out to be their teacher. But they got calmed down pretty soon and were doing their thing.

On the way to the Evolution Garden, there were alot of plants but we didn't know that many. So Melissa picked up the 'chicken-egg' flower and asked them what it was. Then she explained why it was called a chicken-egg flower. 'Cause it was white and had a yellow centre. Then we took this walk up to the Evo Garden. Why was the trail so loooooonnnggg? It seemed like we couldn't wait to reach so we could start guiding for real and not look like we were unsure of what was outside the Garden. 'Cause we only know the stuff in it.

So when we got in we started explaining the things we did know. And we weren't that proffessional but we were pretty okay. Mostly for the ammonites, Mel explained. They're fossils of dead old things. And i explained about the 'trees of stone'. They are normal trees but had been compressed and buried. M'kay.

Afterwards, Gene did the Horsetail ferns, explaining how it can be rejoined; Mel did the cycads and water lillies, and she explained how the lillies were the first flowering plants; I did the Silver fern and told them how you could make thenm into tattoos. I think Gene got one. (:

We explained all that we knew. You know, tour guiding is mostly like trying to tell people all the cool stuff around the Evo Garden that you know. And you gotta make sure it sounds pretty cool and interesting, because under the intense heat of the early-morning, and the frequent jabs of mosquitoes, their attention span is suddenly decreased by a huge amount. So you need to keep the interest level at the maximum. Yes.

So tht is all for Evo Garden this week. Hopefully next week we'll go on learning and being great tour guides. To the Rainforest Tour peoples, please blog okay? Also, hope you guys get to be tour guides soon as well. Jia you hor! :D

Natalie, signing off. Bye all. (: