Howdy folks! It’s good to be back here on the Bio Bus. It’s been an exciting year in Trombone Land… After my first tour with the BioBus, when we went out to Urbana Illinois, I spent almost 7 weeks touring the Western Hemisphere with ska band the Toasters. Ten thousand miles later, I am back on the Bus, now teaching at John Philip Sousa Middle School!
Dr. Ben and I are very excited, because this week is the beginning of a jam-packed semester. We will be going to six more schools around New York City, as well as appearing at the Grand Central Terminal Earth Day Festival.
Right now we are on our third cold day here in Baychester, Bronx. Monday was quite nice, but yesterday and today we have been running the wood stove at full blast and the bus has been quite comfortable. Our lunch breaks have been full of the local Jamaican food. Kids here at JPSMS are really smart, and have been looking at yeast cell cultures, more human cheek cells, and learning all about life!
We’ve got our third period class coming in a minute, so I’m going to sign off for now. I’ll leave you with a photo I took on my cell phone (!) through the microscope, looking at the yeast culture.
i took this picture on my cell phone, through the microscope!
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