Refurbishing the Aquarium at Our Daughter’s School

Volunteering has always been an important part of the alternative school system in Toronto, and, what with our daughter in her fourth year in a Toronto alternative school, my wife and I finally decided it was time to pick up the slack and make a contribution. We’d both been feeling guilty that our professional lives kept us out of the classroom, but luckily we were able to find something we could do on our own timetable that has made a big difference at the school.

There’s alway been this big old aquarium, 72″ x 18″ x 24″, that you see as you come in the front door of the school, but in recent years it’s been looking a little sad. It hasn’t had proper lighting for months, for starters, and I don’t think it’s ever had a proper cover. So I approached the Parent’s Council and begged to be allowed to fix it up. Luckily, they gave me the green light.

Two dutiful and beautiful angelfish stand guard outside the castle, liar of the ridiculously humongous plecko.

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