Rainforests
We were studying the Rainforest in Year 6 at school (thats 11 years old I believe) and as part of this we were to make a wall display of a rainforest on the backwall. How exciting! So our task was to go away, choose an animal and then make a large drawing of said animal to be put on the wall.

The next week the classroom was awash with a myraid of colourful animals, I had brought along a Toucan, Adam had done a rather lifelike Monkey, Alan had a cheetah- someone had even thought to do a load of trees to make the backdrop look more realistic. It was a brilliant effort- a masterpiece- something that would surely be spoken of in years to come as the finest piece of work to have ever graced the school. People were nearly moved to tears by its grace, its elegance, its beauty.

Then Ian turned up with his work. Ian was a bit...slow. Not quite all there. And what has Ian submitted for his rainforest project?

A 2 story brick house with curtained windows and even a damned chimney with smoke coming out of it! A house. In the middle of what was, 5 minutes before, the most realistic (possible exaggeration here but hell this is how I remember it) rainforest montage ever made by man. And now there was a detached family house sitting bang in the middle of it.

I think it was shortly after this I realised I hated people, and I really had to get a little less emotionally involved in my school work!
(xerophytic has no idea, Thu 13 Aug 2009, 17:00, 1 reply)

HOUSES ARE ORGANISMS TOO!
Especially those powered by coal fires.

Beautiful, have a click.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 13 Aug 2009, 17:07, closed)