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Mum hates snakes…
Mum absolutely hates snakes, she says it’s the way they move in a slithery snake-ish way and also the way they poke their tongue out at you and hiss in a sly way! So she didn’t come in!!!
Sample of a snakeskin!!!
Our tour guide took us into a room and showed us a sample of a snake skin. She let us touch it and it felt all plasticky and had been battered to pieces. You see, you and I lose skin all the time but in little particles which makes dust but snakes, well they’re completely different. When they lose skin their whole layer of skin comes off and they slither out of their skin and the underneath grows back and becomes their skin!!!
Watersnakes…
We came across a watersnake which was black, yellow and red it was called an aquatic coral snake. Half of its body was inside the water and half was out – it was very poisonous! There was another land snake that looked exactly like the aquatic coral snake but it was only designed like that so if it was slithering through the jungle and other animals thought that it was really poisonous and suddenly got really scared and ran off!!!
4 o’clock…
We were just about to leave when the lady said that “if you’re interested and you come back at 4 o’clock you can hold a snake. It was 3.20 and we had 40 minutes to play in the park while mum went shopping for a waterproof Mac for Gabriel.
40 minutes later…
After 40 minutes we walked back to the Vivarium and sat on chairs in the room. A Spanish woman walked in and, after 10 minutes of not understanding anything we got to feel what the snake felt like, warm and dry and a tiny bit plasticky. When everyone had felt the snake she said “if you want a picture then you have to wait in this room and pay three dollars (US dollars) and we waited. Gabriel went first and had it around his neck however I had it around my waist which even that was a bit freaky after that I walked out of the main gates of the vivarium holding proudly in my hand is a picture of a snake around my waist with a huge smile on my face! I am not doing that again (that was creepy)
Jemima bravely takes hold of a boa constrictor…. I couldn’t be there to watch this, so I took a walk in the park (fI)
Clearly getting used to this
Five Go Round The World 
Hello Jemima, you were very brave to hold this snake, and a boa constrictor as well.I am completely with your mother about how I feel about snakes! In fact, a few years ago, we were in a hotel where there was a snake show one evening and I was really keeping all my fingers cross not to be chosen to have to touch the snake…So well done! but even more well written! I think you are using very precise words and vocabulary which makes your story really interesting to read…So do you feel time is going faster or slower than in London? Are you wondering what your school friends are up to ..or are you so busy discovering that you barely think about that?Finally, I would like to know where you will be on your birthday? Do you think I might be able to Skype you to wish you a happy birthday? Let me know and in the meantime, I am sending you lots of love, your godmother Sylvie
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