Watercare Recount

Hook:

“Oh come on”! I yelled because we had to go back into class early for our Watercare session. I didn’t know how interesting (but gross) it could be. 

Orientation:

The lady who was going to teach us about Watercare had introduced herself. “Hello everyone! My name is Sarah and I’m going to be teaching you about Watercare!” Sarah said with a big smile and a loud voice. She then asked, “I’m a member of Water care, what are the two most important things I do for my work?”. I raised my hand with a few other classmates and she chose me. 

“Umm, uhh, you treat the water?” I said with a nervous voice. “Yes we do”, Sarah replies. After she said that I took a sigh of relief. “What is the other thing we do though”? Someone replied but I forgot what it was. Sarah mentioned that she was an educator and she didn’t do all the other things that she’s going to mention later.

“Okay, so first I am going to show you what the toilets were like in the olden days” Sarah said. She showed a picture of a hotel on Queens Street. The toilets were called “Chamber pots”. Sarah told us how they worked by saying that the chamber pot would be under people's beds with a towel covering it. While the people who used the chamber pots were asleep, the workers called the chambermaids who would come inside the room. They would take the chamber pot and chuck the waste outside into a river. Then she went on and talked about the toilets in houses. There used to be a shed near the house where a bucket with newspaper would be. The owners of the house would just do their “business” in the bucket. After that they would wipe their bottom with newspaper and put them back. Late at night men with horses would take the bucket and throw all the pees and poops into a random area. 

“Finally”! I shouted in my head because it felt like forever since we went outside. Our class following Sarah were walking to the front of the library to do an experiment with powdery light rocks, watering cans with water, a blackboard and a plastic sheet. It was in three groups of nine or eight. We had to put the rocks on the blackboard like mountains and when we were all done Sarah told us to put the plastic sheet over the rocks. When  we were done we had to watch the other groups pour the water inside the watering can onto the sheet. The goal was to see how many rivers and streams went off the sheet. As we watched the other groups some people started fighting over who poured the water onto the sheet. Finally, it was our turn and Trelia had poured the water and three streams spilt off the sheet. 

Conclusion:

Overall I thought that was very interesting to learn about the water. It was worth it to end lunch early for Watercare.