Training week
- Yours truly next to a jar of pickled hellbenders (aka giant salamanders)
- Why'd it have to be snakes?
- A skull of something or other
- What's cuter than a stuffed bear cub?
There are multiple visitor centers in the park and each has its own educational program. This week, the other SCA Educational Interns have arrived, and together with the rest of the Resource Education staff, went through training together.
It has definitely been nice getting to know some other people in my position and seeing the different working conditions we're in. For instance, at Cades Cove, the two interns have Wednesday-Thursday off instead of the weekend and they share housing with each other. On the North Carolina side at Oconoluftee, Laura gets to dress up as an old-timey Southern Appalachian woman and guide kids through a historical cookie-making activity.
In the pictures above, Adrian, the museum curator, showed us the park's archives, which were pretty damn cool. Have you ever seen rattlesnakes stuffed in a jar? Or plant specimens that are a hundred years old? Or a buttload of disgusting beetles pinned to a tray all fancy-like? I have, and it was cool.
