Bridget was asked to write a proposal for her natural science project. Here is what she came up with (it may need just a tad bit of tweaking, but she received bonus points because she accomplished her goal AND made me laugh!):
My Beta Fish Proposal
Over the course of twelve weeks, I will be experimenting on four helpless, insignificant, $1 Beta fish. I will get two males and two females. Hopefully we will have no double cousins on our hands. I have never taken the course to become certified as a midwife for female fish and their hundreds of eggs that some people find enjoyable to eat.
My goal is to figure out why the males fight. There are two females, probably equally pretty in their eyes, so I currently do not know why they fight.
The syllabus tells me to call them Male #1, Male #2, Female #3 and Female #4. But due to the dullness of calling animals numbers, and the heartless, ungrateful disrespect to God's creations, I will call them by their own names. I will give those details later because I cannot find suitable names if I haven't bought them yet.
Over the weeks, and reluctant cleaning-out of their little bowls, I will be putting different fish in different bowls with another fish or two. They will either try to party, mate or kill each other. And that is why I chose to experiment on the fish (not only because I'm poor and can't afford anything expensive and my parents won't let me get a dog). I think it will be interesting to see the fish amount to something, or die trying.
