Meeting People. (Well, person.) ~ Project W.I.S.H.

So we met up with the wonderful Mrs. Edith Flores Wolff from Germany. She has given us a good many ideas on how we can raise greater awareness of our project through creative means.

But first, a little background information (or promotion, if you will) on/for Mrs. Wolff and her project (or what we can make of it). It's called The Asia Europe Classroom Network, but we're involved in an aspect of it that concerns butterflies. Mrs. Wolff has worked with schools all across the globe, literally, and through this and her passion for butterflies she has amassed and shared with us a generous wealth of ideas which we are considering for our project.

These ideas include but are definitely not limited to:
- Colourful signs with butterfly pictures/quotes around the school to catch people's attention and raise awareness. This is mostly to raise awareness about and expand out butterfly garden in school.
- Something about mandelas-- which are something like stained glass designs on paper. We're considering incorporating this into our Science Centre programme.
- Butterfly puppets. Glow in the dark puppets.

Also, she clarified the issue about the consolidation of butterfly species in a book. There seems to be an issue regarding the translation of the scientific names of butterflies into Singapore's native languages, Chinese and Malay. She brought to our attention a group of students in Germany who managed to translate the butterfly names into German. Collation of host plants and teaching students how to identify them through books also came up.

She very kindly brought us gifts from the Philippines: these handmade key chains which are really pretty:

And we gave her this shirt that was very kindly prepared by a previous member of the group:

We gave her a tour of our butterfly garden, and she pointed out several other butterfly host plants scattered around the school. She pointed out several other areas where our butterfly garden could potentially be expanded to.

Mrs. Lee with Mrs. Wolff

Following this, we led both Mrs. Lee an Mrs. Wolff to the butterfly garden at Nassim Road and the butterfly garden at Dhoby Ghaut Green. When we reached the garden, we were pleased to observe a butterfly, a Cruiser butterfly, which we hadn't seen before in the garden during the butterfly surveys. We are pleased to report that the garden is very active, more active than it has been for the past three or so surveys.

And we remain, Mrs. Wolff, most fondly yours,
Project W.I.S.H