So there I was, standing in the locker room. There were eight four-year olds (boys and girls) the two teachers (both women, around the age of twenty five) and me. It was a Wednesday, which means it is a swim day. As everyone around me began shedding his or her clothes, I felt my heart skip a beat as I wondered where I was going to change.
"Um, do I just take off my clothes and change right in front of the children?" I asked, sheepishly.
"Well, unless you plan to swim in your clothes, I think it would be a good idea to take off your clothes!" was the Danish response. They were not used to my cultural views on nudity; but I was. Well, seeing as I did not want the children to think I was strange, I took a deep breath and stripped down.
Standing there naked, for the first five minutes was the hardest thing I had ever done - or so I thought. Here in Sweden, when changing in the locker room, it is proper etiquette to wander around in the nude. One's towel does not serve any other purpose besides drying one off - it is not a cover for one's nude body. This was a big step for me. It is the American way to use your towel as a shield from exposing your naked behind to others. Well, not here.
So, I proceeded into the shower chamber (naked) along with my naked class of children and the two naked teachers. The shower chamber consisted of a long corridor of waterspouts - there was no place to hide! I had to grin and bare it, literally! After our six to ten-minute communal nude shower, we finally put our bathing suits on and went swimming.
I thought I had accomplished a great feat! I, the modest American, stood naked in front of the whole class and the teachers. Yay for me!! But, to my surprise, I was mistaken.
After our swim, we entered the naked chamber once again. Our bathing suits and towels were hung up, and the naked party began! We all showered again (the Danes are really clean people!), and as I grabbed my towel and began to dry off, I received strange looks.
"Am I not supposed to be getting dressed yet?
One of the best methods for determining mass in chemistry is gravimetric analysis (Lab Handout). It is essentially using the the mass of the product to figure out the original mass that we are looking for. Thus the purpose of our experiment was to compare the final mass in our reaction to the initial mass and determine the change in mass.
help give a better idea of how the rate of osmosis is affected by the
-The cells in the body will increase because osmosis causes molecules to move from a less concentrated solution to a more concentrated solution.
Osmosis is the movement of water molecules across a partially permeable membrane from a region of high water concentration to a region of low water concentration. Osmosis is used to transfer water between different parts of plants. Osmosis is vitally important to plants. Plants gain...
the gain or loss of water when samples of the tissue are placed in a
When Monday arrived and the final bell rang, ending the last class of the day, the girls on the swim team raced to the locker room, eager to finally know the truth. The door to the locker room held a poster-sized piece of paper. The girls recognized Miss Tewksbury’s handwriting to say, “Please change your footwear only and report directly to the poolside bleachers.”
Remembering the feeling of embarrassment whacked against the side of my face as I realized that how horrendous I was at swimming. I can reflect back to that moment and say it motivated me to become such an astonishing swimmer. It began when my best friend Anthony, who also recruited me into tennis, was helping the empty swim team recruit members. Anthony was the type of person who would share his thoughts about a particular event and recommended it. “You’d be in shape for the tennis team if you join the swim team, it would also be helpful if you joined since we’re lacking people,” he explained. Participating in the swim team was one of the most remarkable experiences during high school.
Sex is a predominant part of life, and that is not changing anytime soon. A common response to this is to dismiss the conversation. Instead of overlooking the problem like the majority of individuals, an inquiry into what is being taught/shown to youth is needed. Strasburger, the author of “Adolescents, Sex, and the Media: Ooooo, Baby, Baby—a Q & A” notes:
water in the potato, then the water will go out of the potato and into
There is only one thing that is worse than wrestling practice, and that is having to sit out at wrestling practice. When I hurt my shoulder and couldn't wrestle, I wanted nothing more than to be on the mat with my teammates. No matter how hard, painful, or stressful wrestling may be, it means more to me than just being comfortable for those two hours. A sheer feeling of accomplishment surrounds a wrestler after removing completely soaked work out gear after practice. The discipline that it takes to be a member on the mat is something I will always have the utmost respect. Although I may always hate humidity because of it for the rest of my life, I will forever carry the discipline that the Hotchkiss High School wrestling room has given me.
In a small town in rural Illinois, a girl mid-way through her junior year of high school arrived to her Advanced Placement Latin class wearing leggings with a petite dress overtop (Dockterman). Leggings were against school dress code at her school, but because of the dress she wore over it, she assumed it would pass dress code requirements, given that she was appropriately covered (Dockterman). This, however, was not the case upon her arrival to her latin class. Her teacher noticed her dress code infraction, and sent her home, in tears, to change (Dockterman). By the time she returned to class, she had missed part of an important review for her AP Latin exam, and was the subject of snide comments from other students in the class (Dockterman).
pool once and took off my shoes and shirt. Not knowing I was at the deep
It was finally time to swim. I finally came up with a plan and decided to swim in the deep side of the pool even though I didn’t know how to swim. I knew it would work but I was also scared. As I walked to the swimming pool, everyone laughed at me again for wearing a speedo. I dived into the deep side of the pool and noticed everyone was staring at me in amazement. Then I swam up and hung onto the side of the pool. Everyone was shocked and puzzled. Even the girl I liked looked surprised.
A good example would be the experiments with the concentrations of 20% to 60% concentration results to show the change. In the 20% concentration I noticed a decrease in the percentage change in mass for the experiment the percentage was _____ while for the concentration of sucrose 60% the change was _____ we can see that the percentage change in mass is decreasing thus we can conclude that the difference of the initial from the final and as it gets greater that means the mass of the potato changed massively.
Introduction to Slater's Slaters was founded in 1918, and since then, the name Slaters has become virtually synonymous with that of the town itself. [IMAGE] In 1912, a single site car repair and paintshop business was opened on what was then the main road between Chester and Anglesey. Subsequently sold to Captain Slater in 1918, this garage is today the site of Abergele's Kwik Save Supermarket. [IMAGE]