On Monday I
started my work experience at the rehabilitation centre. I wanted to work here
for the two weeks because it’s something different to all the jobs that
everyone else is doing. Everyone at the centre is very polite and has made me
feel very welcome on my first day. The first few days have been interesting and
I have learnt some new things from the jobs I have done, such as how to measure
the salinity in the water as you need a specific amount for the animal in it
which I did not know until I came here, and I have also learnt how to set traps
to possibly catch terrapins, so far we have not caught any.
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| Enjoying a cup of tea before doing some serious tasks! |
I find the
jobs I have done so far interesting as they are active and involve going
outside which is better than being in an office most of the time. I like the
jobs particularly because you see different things everyday and learn something
new.
My first job
at the centre was to catch a few crabs as Eden a turtle currently recovering at
the centre needs some living creatures in his tank, despite my fear of crabs I
managed to catch a few and spot lots of them, I learned that when they are all
put together they are very aggressive and will fight and end up killing each
other, so there are only a few living ones left.
Yesterday
one of the jobs that we did was bird monitoring, there was a lot of walking
involved but we managed to spot many species of birds. During the three days
that I have been here there are only two animals at the centre, one of them
being a terrapin named Chichi that was domesticated and now that the person
looking after it has left and gave him to the centre, where they are helping it
get back to being independent and ready for the wild again. The other one is a
turtle named Eden no more than a few years old,
he has a cut across the carapace and is in recovery also to be set free
into the ocean once again.
