WooHoo!! i'm now a Conservation Ambassador.. =)
2 days of training.. 2 saturdays gone, burnt when it should really have been spent studying and cramming notes into my head.. was it worth it really? of cuz it was!! every min was worth the while.. and its free admission to the zoo AND discounts off every FnB in there!! including BnJ!! those sinful scoops of ice cream slashed its prices by 35% around there! from $4.50 a scoop to $2.95 a scoop! we also enjoyed 15% discount at KFC, its like wow! which is really not much of a diff if u shop at cheers there.
anyways.. i went to the Zoo together with 3 other MJcian namely Rujin Jiayi and Rashidah. the first day wasnt really much on the content we had to read up on, but more of a behind the scenes tour of what goes on in the Zoo. its an eye opener really, the places of the Zoo u never knew existed. the coolest had to be the storage room where they kept the dead animals for autopsy. lucky for us.. ok maybe not so, a really large phyton was there and was really close to the zookeeper who brought us around. no.. she didn break down and cry or that sort of things. my guess would be that the phyton was one of the star attraction of the Zoo or Night Safari for the zookeeper to know it by name. then again.. i could be wrong.
so the first day came and went, BnJ was a calling, the notes we had to study wasnt. we were given 2 stacks of notes of which we had to study and further read up on the topics in it in preparation of the test they were going to give us. the role of a conservation ambassador was to act somewhat like a tour-guide to visitors who would like to know more of what they are viewing and to spread conservation messages to them, hoping that they will make a difference and realize the problems facing the environment today. the 2 exhibits are Australian Outback and Fragile Forest. the exhibit we were to be tested on were to be released on the test day itself.. [terrific, more things to mug over the week]
test day soon came.. friendship with fellow CAs are forged.. i got to know 2 girls who are studying in University now, charmaine and michelle. and they too were assigned to the same exhibit to be tested on as us! haha.. so this was how the test will go.
we will each individually bring the group[the CAs to be] around the exhibit and pretend we were doing the actual thing already, and complete the tour. to do so.. we had to walk round the same exhibit 4 times to allow everyone to be tested. boring right? apparently not.. fragile forests has a biodome which butterflies of different species roam about freely..


they say i'm the butterfly man.. another nickname to add for the list.. haha.. the butterflies seemed attracted to me for some reasons, tourists started to take photos of the butterflies which landed on my back and my shoulder and bag, and face.. ya really.. face. the photo's proof of it.


(8:24 PM)