Decisons, decisions.......

I saw a notice in the paper last January for a class starting at our zoo in Providence. It was the annual docent training class which required four hours each week for thirteen weeks. I wasn't quite sure what I was getting into but I enrolled and started the class. Fifty people were in the class. We had assignments each week and needed to prepare a short presentation for the beginning of each class. Zoo keepers responsible for the major areas of the zoo came to speak to us about their animals, education staff told us about their programs and the many conservation efforts of the zoo around the world came to light. The more I got into it the more fascinating it became.

I have been working at the zoo since finishing the course in April. While I help people or talk to them about the animals while I am there, I'm the one reaping the greatest benefits from being there. Every day is different, every day something new is happening with the animals. Yesterday we were invited to hear a guy who has spent the last fifteen years living among elephants in Tanzania and studying them. During my last shift we were asked to record the behavior of an anteater new to the existing exhibit. 

Definitely one of my better decisions!