How to Relive Your Childhood...

Being an intern at a museum’s education center is fun!  It’s like reliving your childhood twice a week.  No really, minus the cleaning up afterwards, its spectacular.  In one workshop on architecture, I got to draw a line drawing of the famous Royal Crescent (a big, curvy row of fancy houses for Bath’s upper echelons).  Afterwards, the children all crowded around me and ooohed and ahhhhed, acting like I was freaking Leonardo da Vinci or something.  In another, there was an extra station set up, so I got to paint a box in the style of Mondrian.  (Afterwards, the kids made sculptures with wood scraps, but that’s where I put my foot down.) It ended uo looking more like a stained glass window, but whatever.

Today, the teacher, Chrissie, had this whole class planned out where she told that story about the hen who made bread and none of her friends would help her using little puppets, stuffed animals and various objects to represent the bread-making stages, and then we made bread!  I’ve made bread about twice in my life, so it was a very exciting experience for me!  At the end, there was an extra loaf, so then I even got to try some, and it was sooo delicious!  I did have to have an epic battle with the printer for a solid 30 minutes to get the thing to print out all the pictures of the kids for their little photo memory books, but the bread at the end was so worth it…