Forensic Scientist In The Making?

My secondary one classmate, P, got me to sign Big Bee up for a half-day forensic science course together with her daughter, Cheryl. 

With Cheryl, before class starts. 

It was an eye-opener for Big Bee. When we ambled back to the science lab to fetch her, I was amazed to find the entire class of about 8 kids decked in green hospital surgery gowns! They looked so professional! And of course, the dreams of my daughter as a medical doctor started populating my little mind again, ha. 

I peeped at their activities from the door, and felt that these were really interesting. When I was there, I saw her use a toothpick to swipe at the walls of her mouth, then dab the skin tissue onto a swap of clear plastic, before inserting it under a microscope! Wow, what a little scientist indeed! She told me her inner cheeks' cells looked really neat, little round cute circles. How cool! 

When she saw me peeping at the door, she pointed excitedly to a corner. I glanced at what she was pointing and a queasy sensation floated up my belly. It was a bloodied mass of brain tissue!

After the class, she told me that was a real brain! I almost fainted. She giggled and clarified that it was a pig's brain. But she told me she was cautious enough to ask the teacher if the brain has swine flu (!!??). Oh, she also asked me why the teacher was wearing a necklace on her teeth (!!!!!). 

Apparently, the teacher taught them how to dissect the pig's brain, the techniques of dissection, and horror of all horrors, passed parts of the brain to each of the groups for the kids to dissect it further! Poor pig's brain - separated literally to pieces! 

Pointing gleefully at the pig's brain, while her right hand is holding the swap with tissue from her mouth. 

Cheryl and her were forensic partners but apparently, they both closed their eyes when dissecting the brain. Hmph. Dashed were my medical doctor hopes! What was heartening was that she told me she was gradually not frightened of that bloodied mass of tissue. In fact, that evening, we spent almost an hour looking at dissection techniques on youtube - dissection of frogs, of pig's brains, injections, etc. My poor ebbing heart lurched with each new dissection *nauseous*. The usually squeamish her did not flinch at all! In fact, she seemed to have shown interest in this aspect of science! 

I was really glad she enjoyed herself. In the meantime, Little Bee had great fun shopping with Hubby who spent solo time with her while Big Bee was in class (I was at a medical appointment). What perfect Papa-daughter bond!

 

Guess what Papa bought? A life-sized Elmo! 

Looking REAL happy with the undivided attention and taking umpteen kiddie rides