Day 10: The Last Day
Today I arrived a bit early so I was able to take a brief look at the touch cart again before going right into presenting. After I felt pretty confident, I went to get ready in front of the malacology exhibit. Luckily, there were a lot of visitors, including numerous tours for school field trips, so there was no problem in presenting today. I am happy to say that this time I was able to get some images of me presenting, and not just pictures of the cart. Ms. Leap helped me in doing this: she stood in front of me, so she was able to get pictures of me and the backs of the visitors watching. When there were groups of younger children, having also the teachers present meant that there was a more in-depth explanation for the specimens I was showing. I tried my best to make each presentation as interactive and coherent as possible. I decided to put in the left-handed whelk , the Texas state shell, instead of the tiger cowrie . I think that was a good call since it seemed that it was a s