Day 18: Orientation

Thursday, June 13

Today I went in to the herpetarium to work for an hour collecting salads from the building. The rest of the day was spent in orientation for new zoo workers/ interns. The orientation wasn't too bad. Of course various policies had to be covered but we also learned about the history of the zoo and did a fun personality test. In the morning we also got a behind the scenes tour of the insectarium. It was interesting to see another part of the zoo, but I'm still not too fond of being close to insects. The zookeeper that was giving us the tour had a hat on with two insects on it. For over half of the tour I thought they were plastic insects that he put on his hat, but then he picked one up and it actually moved. I'm glad that he likes insects enough to do that! Almost everyone at the orientation was an intern so I got to meet some interns in other areas of the zoo and got to know some of the interns in the herpetarium better.