Week 3: The Real Work Begins

This was our first week of area! My roommate and I were happy to find we'd been assigned to the same area this week, primates. However, the third in our party was somewhat unfortunate. A socially awkward (really, you could say inept), constantly-questioning fool was constantly grating on our nerves and we did just about everything we could to take jobs that either didn't involve him at all, or physically moved us away from him. You see, with the monkeys, there is a proper etiquette to follow so they don't eventually perceive you as submissive and weak. This is very important to keep up as we have no idea which, if any, of these animals we'll be working with yet. He mostly made it a point (I'm sure subconsciously) to break every one of these rules, and I sincerely hope I'm there for the day one of the monkeys reaches through the bars and grabs him in a bad way. Our second years continue to be really nice, but it's become somewhat of a problem in that they are so nice, they're not doing a very great job of getting through to this guy and correcting his behavior (ironic, since this is what they do with animals...).
Our classes are starting to pick up a little bit, but still not much happening there. Getting closer to a few tests now, and having some projects with nearer due dates, but nothing serious to worry about yet. It was a pretty uneventful week overall, I'm sure after this week's assignment in parrots, I'll have at least one interesting story.