I live!!
Had my last day at Rocky Shores on Friday - sadness! :( I fed both seals, though, and did the usual stuff. We went over to Taste of Tacoma for lunch... of course, it POURED that day, so we were just wandering through the rain. It was worth it, though, for whole corn ears, scones with strawberry jam, skewers of strawberries dipped in chocolate, and alligator on a stick. Yes, alligator. AWESOME. It tastes kinda like pork, and was breaded like fried chicken. YUM.
The new job is going fantastic! It's a great area, and it's really fun learning new animals. LOVE the Asian small-clawed otters. They're so adorable! Whenever we walk by them in holding, they come running up to the fences and squeak and stick their little arms through. TOO CUTE. The tigers are gorgeous, of course. And the gibbons and siamangs are loud as hell in the mornings. Quirky, but really entertaining. :D I've been doing a lot of shadowing, learning diets, learning how to shift (with rotating exhibits, there's a crapload of chutes and gates to learn!), and learning specifics on how each animal's holding area is cleaned.
Oh, and my internship project, for the win!!!! I did observations of the bears in holding, seeing how they reacted to one another through the fence to help determine who should be introduced first... and it all went well! Woo!
On my way home tonight, I stopped and bought about $60 worth of fireworks to shoot off ('cause our neighborhood is made of awesome and we can use them legally)... only to come home and find out that my mom had bought a bunch, too. That's a lot of stuff to blow up! :D Now we're just waiting for darkness, which comes rather late at this latitude in the summer. Nothing like celebrating kicking the crap out of the Brits by blowing stuff up. ;) *runs from all the UKers on her f-list* :P
Hope everyone had a great Fourth! :D
Had my last day at Rocky Shores on Friday - sadness! :( I fed both seals, though, and did the usual stuff. We went over to Taste of Tacoma for lunch... of course, it POURED that day, so we were just wandering through the rain. It was worth it, though, for whole corn ears, scones with strawberry jam, skewers of strawberries dipped in chocolate, and alligator on a stick. Yes, alligator. AWESOME. It tastes kinda like pork, and was breaded like fried chicken. YUM.
The new job is going fantastic! It's a great area, and it's really fun learning new animals. LOVE the Asian small-clawed otters. They're so adorable! Whenever we walk by them in holding, they come running up to the fences and squeak and stick their little arms through. TOO CUTE. The tigers are gorgeous, of course. And the gibbons and siamangs are loud as hell in the mornings. Quirky, but really entertaining. :D I've been doing a lot of shadowing, learning diets, learning how to shift (with rotating exhibits, there's a crapload of chutes and gates to learn!), and learning specifics on how each animal's holding area is cleaned.
Oh, and my internship project, for the win!!!! I did observations of the bears in holding, seeing how they reacted to one another through the fence to help determine who should be introduced first... and it all went well! Woo!
On my way home tonight, I stopped and bought about $60 worth of fireworks to shoot off ('cause our neighborhood is made of awesome and we can use them legally)... only to come home and find out that my mom had bought a bunch, too. That's a lot of stuff to blow up! :D Now we're just waiting for darkness, which comes rather late at this latitude in the summer. Nothing like celebrating kicking the crap out of the Brits by blowing stuff up. ;) *runs from all the UKers on her f-list* :P
Hope everyone had a great Fourth! :D
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