Yesterday morning, our school guard sent me a message and a photo, telling me that another cotton boll was popping open.
Since the second dose of vaccination, I was then staying at
home and never returned to school to visit the cotton plants. During this
period, the cotton bolls were popping one after one.
The purpose of growing cotton plants was to open up the eyes
of the children and to let them witness the growing process of the cotton plants.
Thanks to Jeremy from 3K for providing me cotton seeds, but the cat in the
school compound got into the big flowerpots, slept in it and crushed the
seedlings to death twice. After that, my colleague Mdm Yeo brought me some more
seeds, and the school guard once again helped to plant the seeds and took good
care of them so that the cat would not destroy them. In the end, both cotton
plants had grown up, but unfortunately the school had been closed before they
bloomed and bore fruit!
Back at school, I was really joyful when I saw the
popped cotton bolls! From the sowing to the popping of the cotton bolls, instead
of the children, I had actually opened my own eyes! If it hadn't been wet by
the rain, the popped cotton would have looked like white, soft and
attractive cotton candy! Thanks to the school guard for taking good care of the
cotton plants! Thankful to the nature world for granting such beautiful
resources to mankind!