Strathcona Dental Fair
Britannia Secondary School
It took about the same amount of time to get to Britannia as it does to commute to UBC on the 49th bus. In retrospect I should've taken the skytrain but I ended up arriving on time anyways.
We had our first presentation in a home-ec room, evident in the stoves, cupboards, and bag of oats. We, the pre-dent students, all stood at the front of the classroom and in pairs gave mini speeches on different components onoral health. My partner was Aaron Monga. Our part was "nutrition." I started off strong, read off the page for a line or two, then decided that the script was useless. So I put it down and gave a natural conversational on alternative sugars and the importance of fluoride.
Immediately following the mini speeches, we broke the class into groups and disctributed ourselves among them. The objective? To teach the kids how to brush and floss, techniques for which I did not have knowledge when I was in high school. I learned that it is best to have each of the kids to introduce himself and show us how they brush. After, I would show them the correct way. In return, they would mimic me. We ended with a bunch of questions designed on the fly to test their knowledge. Within 5-10 minutes we ran out of things to say and resorted to asking the kids which subjects they liked best.
