Hungry lemurs

I got the highest score out of the entire class on that math test I took on Tuesday. Yay!

Today I must have slept through my alarm. My mom had to wake me up at 7:30. Usually I leave at 7:10. So I didn't eat breakfast.

I actually got there before Alan or Sarah, though. Heh.

Today was Alan's birthday. So he had to leave at 10:00. He left me in charge because his substitute keeper wouldn't be available until 12:00.

First Alan wanted me to show Sarah how to hose the lemur nighthouse. So we did that. Then he wanted me to feed the pigs and the rabbits while Sarah waited by the goat barn to help the kids there. The lady that usally watches the barn is going through chemotherapy and sometimes misses a day becuase of that. But Alan said that suddenly her cancer got worse and now she's pretty close to dying.

But someone else was there so Sarah came with me.

After hosing the lemur nighthouse I went and grabbed some bananas that Alan had chopped up and brought them over to the lemurs. We locked the family of five outside and let the family of three stay inside. They have a separate outdoor area they can go to.

I had to feed the lemurs outside, and when I did I became a zoo spectacle. A bunch of people were watching as I hand fed the lemurs their bananas. Chester was the most hungry. People asked me questions about them. Someone said, "I wish I could be down there with them!" Too bad for you, kid. Haha. (Sorry, that's mean.)

After that it was 11:30. Sarah decided to take her lunch break. She stays all day. I stayed for a few minutes with her.

Then she asked me if I wanted to tour the zoo with her. So we spent an hour doing this.

Sarah is very hilarious. She makes me laugh. Something about her tone of voice when she's commenting on the animals. A giraffe sprayed someone with water when he took a drink from the pond. Sarah said, "that's intense." I guess you had to be there.

Anyway, she also expressed her frustration about the public's relationship with the animals. I didn't quite understand what she was saying, but she said she couldn't fathom how "people are so out of touch with the animal world." She couldn't undertsand why they weren't "like me." I thought she meant that people that come to the zoo don't really care enough about the animals to really get to know them. I don't know, though. She said she thinks that people don't realize that we are animals, too. She doesn't understand why people don't accept poop as a part of life.

I really like Sarah. I wouldn't mind if she stays.