We woke up to it absolutely tipping down today.....last time it rained we were made to just work through it but even Alicia our leader who is usually super motivated to help the environment any way we can refused to work in it! One of the park rangers is a bit of a 'kitchen nazi' as the head of the park calls her and had a go at us for leaving it in a mess again.....last time she complained because thgere were 2 baked beans on plug hole.......today we apparently left a food stain on the stove! I personally cleaned that stove and scoured it and removed stains that weren't even made by us!
So anyway we played card games like Uno and 'who done it' murder games. I was thre murderer and was sooo bad at bluffing everyone suspected me straight away lol! This kind of reminds me of family camping holidays in france when you make the most of card games etc when its raining,lol!
Every now and then 3 people at a time whobe asked to do an easy job or do some cleaning etc. My job with Darragh, Dave and Danielle (the irish) was to sweep all the spiders and spoider eggs off the tent flaps in the camping part of the wildlife park. There were only 7 tents so it was too bad a job however we did come across some pretty nasty spiders. A wolf Spider, A huntsman, A black Widow and a red back one. Most of these are venemous or make you reallly sick if they bite you. One of them rots your flesh around where it has bitten :s
I made sure my gloves were done up reallllly tight! I cant beleive people actually sleep in these tents with these things crawling on the outside :s
The rain finally stopped by 11am so we were able to get to work properly. We split into groups and me and a couple of others went of with Tom one of the park rangers. He got us to feed the koala bears their eucalyptus leaves, few ali ther Wombat her vegetables, dug sand to put in the Bilby's enclosures and got to have a look at a nocturnal Bilby for the first time...they look like snuggled up cutre rabbits when they sleep then they lift their heads and they have these long ugly snouts and razor sharp teeth :s
We also got to hold the pythons while Rodney (another park ranger and general maintence man) fitted new heat lamps int heir enclosures.
It was a fun day and the first proper day we actually got to feed and play with the aussie wildlife. Quite a few people in the group are starting to get flu-y now from the hard work and cold weather but hopefully fingers crossed i'll be fine! I came over to oz with a mild case of tonsillitis and the doc gave me anti-biotics which i never took so i have them on standby if i need them!
I have loads of energy in the mornings but get knackered by 7pm at night....must be the jetlag! We rushed to the internet cafe after work but Alicia said we could only stay 30mins so i paid the $2 and started tryign to upload my photos...then just as they were about to load my 30mins was up grrr what a waste of time!
We got back to the park and it was me, briana, bridget and zoe cooking! we decided we needed some comfort food so between the 4 of us we cooked a big english/american breakfast! Bacon, eggs,sausage,beans, toast, mushrooms,grilled tomato, pancakes. The americans put weird sweet things with savoury things so they soaked the breakfast in maple syrup ewwww! They love peanut butter with everything in sandwiches....bananas, honey, jam :s
No wonder america has an obesity problem!
We sat down after dinner to watch an aussie sitcom called The Castle.....its kind of like The Royal Family....quite funny!
Todays was fun....me, Briana, Melissa, Bridget and Sarah played a prank on everyone else when we were working with Tom and persuaded them to eat termites becasue 'we just had'......we took fake photos of us eatting them and showed everyone! Alicia, Zoe and Danielle all took a couple to eat :s ewwwww! they are edible but i just didnt fancy that specific aussie delicacy!
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