Today was the beginning of my fourth week in Vancouver- we are finally starting to learn training tomorrow! We're learning what's called the 'ABC's, basically what 'bridging' and training are all about, how to reinforce/reward/ignore behaviors, how to change our body language properly etc. so it should be really fun and probably kind of overwhelming in a good way!

All in all it was a good 'Monday' I got my first kiss from a whale, Imaq, and it was very salty! I also got to start at 9:30am instead of 7am which is a relief. For some reason though I was still really tired and pretty loopy all day. The trainers say it is called 'Beluga Dimentia', haha. They're half serious though- with the new baby arriving our schedules have been switched around so much, our duties have changed, and our normal pattern is compeltely different which can really throw you off. Combine this with 2 straight days of me having been completely underwater in the dark for about 7 hours and you get pretty disoriented!

Despite a headache since after lunch it was a cool day, I got to feed some whales and participate in some behavior training in the afternoon and found out I'm already presenting part of my sea otter project next week! The staff may actually change how they do things based on my recommendations. This means I have to brainstorm pretty hard all week to come up with actual feasible and good suggestions rather than just theoretical ones- but I can't believe I might actually make on impact on how the otters are cared for at the aquarium!

Anyway, I still have a headache and no medicine so I'm just taking it easy and watching the Bourne Identity- it's a pretty quiet Tuesday night for me!