Finally, the 10th Sunday has arrived. It's time for my assessment in the zoo. The first part was tour guiding. We can choose an area in the zoo to do our 1 hour tour. I've chosen the African Rainforest Precinct (gorillas!! :D) and the Wildseas Precinct for backup. Sometimes I felt a bit nervous and lost some of the facts that I wanted to say and also made my english even more cacated. @@"
The second part of the assessment has taken the whole afternoon. This part required us to talk to the visitors. We did this at 5 different locations and 25 minutes each location. It was so much tougher than doing a tour, especially I was being watched and assessed. Can feel the pressure. Pengsan... I guess my eyes were like a predator looking for preys, hungry for visitors. Not only visitors, I was hungry for NICE visitors, to be precise. I always hesitate for a long time if I am to approach people like this. What happened was I looked at them for a few minutes and kept thinking: 'talk to them, talk to them, talk to them, JUST TALK!!!' In the end, they walked away. @@.
Really have to learn to choose visitors. The people that I approached in that 3 hours were:
20% thinking: 'who are you to talk to me?!' (because I didn't have a uniform);
20% being very mean (made the 25 minutes feel like 25 years x.x);
30% just being nice and gave me one-word reply: 'oh' (at least they said thank you in the end, better than nothing);
30% that were seriously very nice to chat with (just any one of them can already make my day, I think I should be the one who thank them. haha. :D).
After that second part, I was very exhausted. Glad that it's all over. The reults? I PASSED!! Woohoo~~ The trainers were very happy with all of us. In the evening, they've got a small party for us. This is my classroom where I spent the past 10 Sundays and I will miss it after that.
These cupcakes were so nice! I only had two. Should have grabbed more. :p
One of my classmate made this big beautiful card for our trainers and 31 of our names were signed on it.
They also made a gorilla cake for the trainers and they were very surprised. So cute. Lol. Wouldn't want to cut it.
The trainers, who have produced that encyclopedia-like guide manual. They have taken good care of us throughout the course. :D
I am now an official guide in the zoo! Yay!
Finally, a class photo. The 2011 batch! So many of us until a few of them can't fit into the picture. Aiks. But maybe the main camera was able to capture all of us. Omg, I looked like a little girl in the picture. Swt!!
Who is coming to the zoo?? I'm happy to take them around!! :DDD
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