Graduation, Camping, Wolf Sanctuary Internship

Yeah, I finally did it. I graduated College. I now am the proud owner of a peice of paper that says I'm smart and deserve some respect. It only took 4 hours of torture called a graduation ceremony, 4 years of book work, some gross lab skills, many new freinds, and a new view of the world from the other side of the state through the eyes of others. I'm not going to miss test, papers, and constantly get sick, but I'm going to miss my freinds, my random adventures, and my freedoms.

Right after graduation I left for the feild trip part of my Biology Feild Trip class. This was a great way to force me not to think so much about leaving Rockhurst and focus on what I doing, physical labor does that, well if you don't want to get hurt. We camped at the Roaring River State Park for a night, proved that we were handicaped, got to see a fish hatchery, then we went to Lamberts in Springfeild, MO, that was a experience, we camped and stayed in a cabin a few days at The Lake of the Ozarks State Park, played hackysack, saw the lake, played card games, frisbee, and catch, we found a couple boob tree's, lizards, and turtles, visited Ha Ha Tonka State Park, survived Chad surprise, ate honey and peanut butter sandwhichs, and floated down a river . It was great fun though and I was able to escape the reality of life untell the last night of the trip. At least I got to say goodbye of my teachers, inculding one that was very special to me.

Right after getting home I started an internship at the Wild Canid Center. It was a miss advertisement on the internship, it was as much an animal care internship as it was a maintance internship. Along with getting to feed, water, and clean wolf poop, I also got to cut grass, srcub tubs, pull weeds, skin rats, play in posion ivy, pull vines off a fence, clear a path through the woods, and strip the plastic of steel cable. It wasn't all bad, I did get to see the new born puppies, help in the capture of one of the wolves, see Aferican wild dogs devor deer legs and bones, and educated the public on box turtles and then set one free.

I miss it all, I miss school, I miss my freinds, I miss my teachers, I miss the morning howls of the wolves, the stars camping, and yes even the alarms going off in the middle of the night.