mew zeem

On Monday I finally made it down to the Otago Museum [which is impressively lazy since it's across the street from most of my classes, and cmac is always working there]. We were toured around, looking at all the weird shit oddities of the museum. With our friendly connection, Liam, Cmac and I went into the butterfly exhibit for free, as well as the discovery area [filled with fun games and stuff for kids, or people my age, but I'll describe].

Butterflies were cool but the extreme humidity of the room put a damper [ha] on my picture taking ability as well as comfort level. I'm also pretty terrified of butterflies which didn't help. There was a piranha. Cmac said it's not very cool and won't be very cool unless they starve it for weeks, which they won't let him do.

Discovery world was filled with things like an air gun that you shot at a ball to get it through hoops [ i swear it's impossible], a body bubble area [also, impossible], sound games, and the best, a brain activity race. So, you put this weird contraption on your head and sit across from someone with a small covered track running between the two of you. There's a little metal marble inside that apparently moves based on the brain activity of the participants. The less brain activity, the further it moves away from you, which is the goal, and the brain activity is shown on screens above the game. I played against Liam, who won with his flatlined activity against my hilariously spastic flutterings. There was a giant board with little nails in it that you could put your body against for an imprint. That was cool.

Walking through the rest of the museum was a bit weird though. There seemed to be a hilarious lack of order in things, and a weird array of time periods all featured in the same case. Not bad, but kind of strange as far as museums go.

In other news, class is done!