E volunteered to be one of several of her classmates to submerge herself in a dunk tank to figure out her mass. Yes, she volunteered for this "honor."
First, she had to change into her gym clothes and be weighed - 80 pounds. She's glad to reach that milestone. Some of her classmates were closing in on 150 pounds. Then she got up on her teacher's desk and he helped lower her into a huge trash can full of water. A pipe attached to the trash can drained away the overflow water into large buckets. E said she went under five or six times to make sure all the water that was going to be displaced, actually got displaced. In the end, she displaced 22 liters of water.
"It was interesting," E told me later. "It was dark and gloomy and it was hot so I was hot when I got out."
Since the outside temperature didn't even reach 20 degrees today, I picked E and her friends up from school. She came to the van wearing a towel around her still-wet hair. At least she had time to change back into her regular (dry!) clothes before school was dismissed.
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