The time has swept by so fast! This week has been full of interesting and varied experiences.  Firstly, I got to try out a bit of my trailhead tour that came to the Museum on Tuesday.  The class was a 3/4 combined French Immersion class.  The class really had a great time at the museum, but we were a bit surprised to learn there were other events going on in the gallery and so we had to leave the first peoples exhibit and go to the modern history part of the museum.

Secondly, we had a group of UVic BEd students come in to do a collaborative project that had been set up between thier profs and the learning department at the museum.  It was super interesting to talk to them about thier programs and practicum, but it was also incredible enlightening to see how they engaged with the museum as future educators.  The project was based around whose voices and histories are represented in the museum and whose are left out, and some of thier projects were incredibly thoughtful.  We had groups do projects on women and science, street performers, immigrants and the concept of beauty.  I think that it was such a valuable experience for them and for us, as now they feel empowered to bring thier classes here in the future, while themselves having ideas of how to facilitate more critically minded classroom/museum visits and projects.

Our last days was a bit of a sad one, and it was hard to say good bye, but our hosts at the museum were so generous, taking us out for lunch and then we finished off the afternoon with a very special tour of the legislature, hosted by a young actor playing the iconic hero of Victoria, Francis Rattenbury.  I have lived in Victoria for almost 7 years but I learned more in that half an hour about its past then those years combined!