Tourists for a day
experience the visitor's Bermuda. According to Veronica Phillips, the idea is to have them experience some of the things one might do if holidaying in Bermuda. As students spend time sightseeing at either end of the Island as if they were tourists, they will be exposed to those things which visitors find enjoyable about Bermuda and hopefully be made to understand how they can make that experience even more pleasurable. "We're trying to come at it from the tourist's point of view,'' explained Mrs. Phillips, a teacher at the Paget school. "We're teaching them how to receive, inform and chat with tourists and we're trying to make them aware that tourists are visitors to the Island and to give them a feeling of what it is like to be a tourist. "We want to have them understand the meaning of tourism -- what a tourist is, where tourists come from, why they come here and what we have to offer them. To help do that, plan to visit the Department of Tourism so they can see which department is promoting this particular part of our economy and we will be visiting one end of the Island, either St. George's or Somerset, for some sightseeing. "We also will be making a cruise ship and using sunglasses and sun visors to pretend that we are tourists and will have little simulations at school where we pretend that one of them is the tourist and the other is the Bermudian.'' Also in the works, Mrs. Phillips said, are plans to visit a cycle livery in the neighbourhood where students can watch tourists practice their riding skills and hopefully talk with them a bit. "We will also be playing a round of mini-golf,'' she added. "Basically, we're having the students simulate what it is that tourists do. We're going to be as informative as we can as (tourism) is something that is surrounding them all the time. They have to know why it's here and who these people are that we are catering to.'' of the nursery's taxi service wave to passers-by from the grounds of the Cabinet Office. EDUCATION MONTH ED