safari

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-63485291?fbclid=IwAR2NOa2B7mSn0JRjuzSuK7fIq983NKf8BygBUXdiN0_J5LkzSnrVuMjUB1Q

Lucy Edwards loves animals and recently travelled half way round the world for what people call a "must see" experience; a safari.

Lucy is blind so she knew her experience on the safari was going to be very different. but she called the safari one of the most amazing trips of her life. 

Lucy says she doesn't miss her sight and used her other senses on the trip to get the most out of her experience; "To reach out and feel the skins of elephants and giraffes really helped me to start to "see""

-ask the children at this point to think about what experiences Lucy might have on the safari using her other senses.

Lucy says as they drove out of the city her senses awoke; "The ground became bumpy as we sped along and the car smelled of sand which wafted in to my face in the wind... the keepers brilliantly described the rhinos and elephants in front of us - how they were moving, eating, reacting to each and each other. It all helped paint pictures in my head. We felt the footprint of a rhino in the dusty ground... we out our hands in a pile of dung, I gave it a good sniff, it just smelled of grass that had gone off... We were so close to a sleeping lion I could hear her breathing through the window... a giant hard of wildebeest set off for another day's travelling. I could hear the pit pat of hooves on the ground and then as they tumbled down a riverbank, the sound of water sloshing around."

- Lucy is using which senses in this description?

Lucy said she was worried about not being able to see the sunset. People say the sunset is glorious and is a big part of the safari experience. This was one thing Lucy thought she would not be able to experience. But when the moment came, there was no sunset; it poured with rain instead. Lucy says it was like the world letting her know that she didn't need to see the sun."

- what is a safari?
- why do you think Lucy was worried about going on a safari as a blind person?
- when people say a safari is a "must see" experience, how do you think that makes Lucy feel? What language could they use instead?
- Lucy used her other senses - what are they?
- what senses are we using now in this room?
- "To reach out and feel the skins of elephants and giraffes really helped me to start to see." what does Lucy mean hear? How can she see through touch?
- discuss all the senses Lucy used on her trip - what else do you think she experienced using her senses? If we went outside now and sat on the grass closing our eyes, what senses could we use to experience the world around us?
- why do you think people usually look forward to seeing the sunset?
- why was Lucy worried about the sunset? Would she be able to use any of her other senses during a sunset? why not?
- The rain was "like the world letting her know that she didn't need to see the sun." - why did the rain make Lucy feel that?
- what can we learn from Lucy in this story?
- why is this about no outsiders?


www.no-outsiders.com 

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