Tairawhiti Environment Centre

7.8.2020

Yes!  The bus stopped we yelled pretty loud when everyone wanted the back seats on the bus.   As soon as we started driving me Neko Bramm and Olly started singing the wheels on the bus song "The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round the wheels on the bus go round and round all day long!" and so on.  

Finally we arrived at the Environment Centre.  When we walked into the back of the Environment Centre the first thing I saw was a huge litter free garden. Then an inviro lover called Kauri told us about all of the enviro stuff while I was daydreaming on all of the spicy yummy purple leaf.   

Then we went inside and there were bean bags with a bunch of plastic bottles inside them.  I didn't realise that the inside was bottles so I jumped on one of them and a bottle went cap first into my my back.  Then to top it off I smacked my head on a brick wall and then felt like I was about to get knocked out.  

Now we can eat the garden plants I went straight for the purple leaf and then Jackson showed me a plant that tastes like lemon.  I'm pretty sure Jackson spewed at home because he ate about 6 of them without flinching.  I was gonna eat beans but I knew I didn't like them. 

 Then we learnt about compost and decomposing and apparently it takes plastic 500 to 1000 years to decompose.  In compost you should do green layer and then brown layer and keep doing it.

My favorite part of the trip was eating the plants.  After the trip I felt like I actually had knowledge about gardening and compost.