It's been a while again

This is the Aye Aye. I'm doing my research paper on them. Notice the very long middle finger that they use to stick into trees and pull out bugs. They've been hunted almost to extinction because people in Madagascar believe that if an Aye Aye points it's finger at you, you'll die.




Whoa, a whole month has gone by without me creating a blog. Spring Break was awesome though! I built a waterfall and made trails, and shaved dogs and wrangled goats. I would love to own a ranch. The weather was awesome and the land was just beautiful. Jeff and the Mercy Ships people are just completely wonderful and I would love to work with them again. I can't believe we only have like 6 more weeks of school left. Part of me is glad that school's almost over but another part of me is sad about not having spring breaks or summer breaks anymore.

Getting a little busy

This is the Fennec Fox. Cutest little thing ever. It's about the size of a house cat and can be trained to be a house pet.





So this semester has been going really well thus far. I like the word thus, I wish more people would use cool words like that. Anyway I have 4 classes that are Animal Science or Wildlife related and 1 History class. I'm so glad that I'm actually taking classes that apply solely to what I want to do in life. I can't wait until this summer when I'm hopefully interning at the zoo. Maybe it'll even turn into a permanent job. Yay!

As far as the "resolution" goes, I have been working out pretty regularly. I shoot for 5 days a week but it doesn't always work out that way. Along with that, I'm trying to eat breakfast every morning and not eat after 9. It's a little harder than I expected it to be but I'm not doing so bad with it.

New Year

Sea snakes are highly venomous and sometimes as much as 4x more deadly than land snakes, however they are not as quick to strike. This is the Banded Sea Snake, part of the only group of sea snakes that are oviparous.





So I don't make resolutions like other people do. I figure I'll just forget about them a couple weeks into the year anyway so I just don't make them. Most of the time I'm already trying to change for the better. In December I decided that I was going to really and truly try to lose weight. So far it's been going well because this time around it feels different. I have no problems going to the gym and I actually have been liking working out. My only problem is keeping it going. After a few weeks I usually stop going, so this time I'm really trying to figure out how to work it into my schedule. Also I've stopped eating late and have been watching what I eat. I use to tell myself that I didn't want to become one of those girls that always counted calories and told other people how many calories they were eating. Those types of girls annoyed me to no end and I would usually end up telling them off. Now I realize that I used that as an excuse to not even try to lose weight when I was younger. So I have become a calorie watcher. Here's to becoming a new person!