St. Augustine Field Trip

The 4th graders went to St. Augustine, which was founded in the 1500s by the Spanish.  Jason chaperoned and I think he had a pretty fun time (another of the ranch dad’s went as well so he had a friend).  Kache will finish the narration for this post.

St. Augustine was settled in 1517 by Ponce De Leon.It is the oldest settlement in America. Above is Castillo De San Marcos the fort built by the Spanish.  I got to see the cannon fire a cannon ball, well just black powder and lots of smoke.

They use this real pirate ship to fish once in a while.

My teacher chose me to show the class how the old Spanish doctors worked.  The survival rate in Spanish hospitals was 3 out of 4 compared to 1 out of 4 in the British hospitals.  Part of this was because the Spanish kept notes of treatments and they washed their hands.

If someone broke their arm, they had to go to the doctor and then they would pull up the flesh and muscle with a tool called a rake and then they’d use a saw to cut off your arm.  Then they’d cauterize it using a hot iron.  We also learned that the pink coloring in nerds comes from a bug.  The guide said he had one student faint when he “performed” surgery her.

Here we were a practicing militia. 

These were muskets.