Volunteering

“Well on Sat I have my interview with the New York aquarium. I really hope I get into this program. They offer so much to the volunteers.
here is the link~
so wish me luck.



Ny Aquarium”

“Good luck, mapleleaf. My advice: Keep bad, nasty words to a minimum. LOL!!

I bet you do well.”

“lizs, I need you on my environment thread ASAP!”

“two words:

Tartar Sauce!”

“Tarter Sauce.........LMFAO”

“thats not funny

thats sick.




:D~”

“Kewl!”

“It's usually a good idea to avoid loud belching during an interview. Good luck!”

“HEHE very funny!
I love penguins and my husband said that if I come home with one, im sleeping outside with it!!

It was pretty cute



ps, he also said that he would frisk me before I walk into the house
:)~”

“that sounds fun! what job would you be doing there?”

“maple, have you read your kids "Mr. Popper's Penguins"? I loved that book when I was a kid.”

“Hey, do you know how penguins determine whether or not the water's safe from predators before they jump in?

They all crowd up to the edge of the water until one (or more) fall in. If nobody gets eaten, the water's safe!”

“Good luck, Mapleleaf.

Sorry about teasing you about your name.

Up her we say, 'Merde' (sort of the equivalent of, 'Break a leg.'

Doug”

“bit, this is a very ture statement.


lyra, not until im accepted, will I find out what im doing. even if its cleaning the tanks that will be ok. Im looking more for the science part of it.
as time goes on i hope to get more involed with the behind the scenes.
but playing with the penguins would be fun !!”

“hehe gremlin. peace”

“Hey that's a great aquarium! I haven't been there in about 10 years. The last time I was there, I probably spent an hour checking out the beluga whales. They're so cool!”

“Violin, I was going to email you a story about a Beluga whales, but couldnt



oh well.”

“he also said that he would frisk me before I walk into the house
:)~"
mapleleaf
01:15:47 PM
11/08/02

You are known for bringing home stray animals, TTers, ect.

Be careful, that frisking could lead to more children!”

“Nope Im a smart girl, i took care of that little thing years ago!!”

“Good luck Maple! Volunteering is majorly important!”

“hehehe I thought you were going to say something good about my comment to stove..


LOL”

“You have mail at the "other" site's address.”

“Thank you SS, you made me smile!!”

“well I went today, I was so nerves about this thing. So i took my daughter with me for support.
the interview went great. it help with the fact that i told her how much i loved to hike and backpack. long story short, she may be joining us on the Tom Jones Mt trip. :)
Well like I said it went great!!!!


so I start my training tom.
YEAH!!!!!

the best part is, is that the woman got a great idea while we were there. She asked if we would mind doing a mother and daughter thing together. I had no pronblem with that. Treenut said yes.
So we both got in.
Im doing this program for 6 months then I will be able to enter the program that works behind the sences with the animals!!
I am so stoked. Its great cause my daughter will be there with me.

she asked if there was one animal that we perferd. well i of course said Penguin.

I GET TO WORK WITH THE PENGUINS!!”

“That is terrific, Mapleleaf! I love penguins too.”

“We went to the Aquarium in Boston and saw some Rock Hoppers and another breed of penguins. They are so cute, and fun to watch. I am jealous of the students who have to scrub there pens and feed them, they get to handle them....”

“Oh yeah! Just don't bring one home and you'll be fine...





(can I have one too???)”

“that's awesome, Maple. Congrats for getting in! I have a friend who started as a volunteer at the Baltimore Aquarium and it eventually led him to a great employment opportunity there.

Best of luck to you and have fun with your penguins! :o)”

“Very cool maple. I guess you can list this under one of the many "advantages of backpacping". Any time you can do these things with your kids is a bonus.”

“man, can you imagine how nuch a baluga whale poops?”

“Did you know that a walrus can give himself Oral Sex?
they will do it for hours.
It was just funyy to learn this with a bunch of teenagers. If you pick the Walrus for your animal and you see them doing it, then you still will have to explaine it to the little kids what they are doing and why.
then they rub themselves up against the glass with there #&%!$ out and rubbing it. Its to gross!!”

“that reminds me. once, at the aquarium in Boston, my friends and i watched the penguins doing it for like a half-hour. except i didn't know what they were doing, LOL! later, i asked why they were all trying to stand on top of each other like that...it was like 3 years ago.

oh yeah, and congratulations! :-)”

“"it was like 3 years ago"


you mean it was Only 3 years ago, gee you and I need to have a sit down and i can tell you about the Birds and the Bees......


:D~”

“well, it looked very innocent. and why the heck did my friends want to watch them for so long if they knew what was going on? LOL!

your new job sounds extremely fun! and that's cool your daughter got in too...very nice.”

“Congratulations Maple! Sounds like alot of fun.”

“Congrats Maple!”

“Nope Im a smart girl, i took care of that little thing years ago!!"
mapleleaf
02:18:31 PM
11/08/02

OHMAGAWD! Bobbit style?!”

“hell NO I like that little eeerrr BIG thing.....


HEHE :)~”

“Man i forgot what is was like to do homework.


ggggrrrrr

The libray was closed on Monday. So now I have no time to go afterwork. How do you guys find the time to study and do homework?
I really would rather go to the libray to do research then on the internet.”

“anyone have a good website for info on marine animals?”

“here you go Corp....”

“AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
Oh my God, I never knew what a dirty pervert the walrus was. Don't get stuck cleaning out THAT tank, girly.”

“YUK
nope im leaving that up to the people that get PAID!!”

“thinking about taking my last vacation day for 2003 for this....


they are looking for volunteers to go out with a group of people and help find and count the Homeless people. Its not a pleasant way of volunteering, but there is a need for people to do this.
So it's from 10:00pm to 4:00am Feb 23rd. So I would take the 24th off so I could sleep!!

never thought I would do this kind of volunteering. interesting how this will turn out! any one ever did something like this?”

“I help out at the local "soup-Kitchen" sometimes serving meals to the homeless. Actually, know some of them on a first name basis (just from working there so long).

(None of your snide remarks, fellas!)”

“do you find it hard to...detatch yourself from them?”

“Maple, I sent you an e-mail. Is your address still the same as you have on your profile?”

“yes, and no. I found that they were pretty unreliable. ie if they said they were going to meet me somewhere or call me, they didn't. But maybe that was just one. I had a dear friend that I met. He was from Kentucky (hitched it all the way out here), had some medical problems, went to AZ. Called once but I was out and could never reach him back again. I'm still hoping he will try to call. He has my home address and an open invite to come visit any time. A very nice gentleman (kind of like an adopted grandfather.) Name is Billy Clark, I'd say he was in his 70's. Plays a blue guitar and sings too. Quite a character.”

“it has been so long since I have
volunteered, I am getting that itch again.
So I called a place here on the Island, United For Wildlife. very cool people, they have gotten so big that they are in need of people to help out with the animals. They have a new building now and seem to be the only Wildlife Rehabilitator around for miles. They are under the Wildlife Conservation Society. he is looking to teach people to be rehabilitators too :)

umm tree, can you build me a little shed to hold my ummm gear yeah thats it, to hold my gear :D”

“Where are we going to put the shed? near the windsurfers that we can't get into the garage?
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