Whoops, I forgot to update last week, but don't worry you haven't missed much! I'm halfway through my 9th week in Vancouver and cannot believe I have been here for two months! Tomorrow I will officially have four weeks left at the Aquarium and then I'll be back to NE to see everyone. On that note, if anyone does want to see me my flights are all booked, I'm coming back to O-town August 21 and leaving for school in CA August 30. So that will put me at home for a total of about 10 days this summer!
As far as Canada goes- the internship is pretty much the same, fun, but I haven't taken on any new duties for the past week. I'm still doing mostly fishhouse, powerwashing, animal duties, and basic training sessions with the whales and otters. I'm working a little more on my Milo project and will try to analze the results by next weekend to let the trainers know where I'm at with it.
The week has been fun out of work as well, there is a big fireworks competition here called the 'Celebration of Lights' that takes place over four days. Three countries (China, Canada, South Africa) have seperate shows and the winner puts on a finale for the last night of fireworks! I went to the first show last night with one of the other interns, and it was amazing! It was Canada's turn and they did a solid 20 minutes of fireworks to the 'Wizard of Oz' soudtrack. At first it was a bit weird, but the 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' finale was really pretty. There were literally a hundred thousand people all packed onto the beaches at English Bay to watch the fireworks being shot off a barge in the water, we felt like a herd of cattle when we left and the streets were still packed with people even 6 or 7 blocks away from where the show was. I'm looking forward to going again in a couple of days.
I'm also looking forward to the Grand-Boeckers visiting tomorrow! We don't have too much planned because I have to work two of the days but a few ideas are a state park, the fireworks, a suspension bridge, Stanley Park, whale watching, and of course the Aquarium. I'm also going to try to get them behind the scenes to watch me do a session w/ the whales- but it may prove a bit tricky since the other two interns have their entire families here this weekend as well!
Anyway, I'll keep you all updated and I'm sure I will have many many many pictures to post, courtesy of Grandma Sharon.
Miss you all!
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