A slithery fun time with snakes
A De La Salle Holy Cross College Junior School learner shares her first encounter with a snake.
Excitement filled De La Salle Holy Cross College Junior School learner, Kristin Kata after she learned that her classroom would be visited by a snake for a few hours.
“I had never seen a snake in my whole life and I really wanted to touch it,” she said.
Her fear that the snake would bite her quickly slithered away after she was told by its owner that would do no such thing. As the fear disappeared her courage took centre stage and it enabled her to hold the snake.
From her time with the snake she learned interesting facts. One is that once a snake needs to lose its skin, it hooks a section, found under on its underside, to whatever it may find and, as she put it, “It just slides right out of their old skin.”
What she found interesting about them was that they were nothing like other animals and can move fast.
By the end of the snake lesson, she thought she could possibly have one of her own one day but she knows her mother would never allow that.
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