Week 63: Crunch Week

That's not it's official title, but it felt like it should have been... We had one week to turn over our new first year caretakers! That was some sheer insanity. They have been very hard to get to come to anything, not to mention all the people checking out for various illnesses. Weren't they listening when they told us all to get the flu shot? The week started out with a test and some papers to write. There was also much discussion about dealing with death when you're away. All good to bring up as well. I had some meetings to plan our animal escape drill with the safety team, that should be fun. The big highlight of the week, which also added to the crunchiness of this week, was doing our outreach show at the juvenile detention center in Sylmar. We ended up performing 5 mini-shows with different line-ups of animals since we brought so many. All the kids we did a show for were considered "high-risk", meaning they were all being tried/convicted as adults (that means really bad stuff here. I'm talking murderers.). The youngest one was only 13! Very sad stuff, but they all really loved it and were very thankful. It was really weird to think of them as such hard criminals when they just seemed like some good inner city kids. Stupid gangs... Great experience though for everyone involved. Next week is projects! I'll be at Hollywood Animals for the week learning about studio work. (Pics from Davis: Wild Things presentation)