Xmas Eve 2011

I had my guiding on Christmas Eve. Luckily it's not crowded at all as I heard the older guides said it was very crowded on Christmas day last year. Phew.... don't have to do crowd control and no one would ever like to do that.

There was an Indian family asked for a tour early in the morning. So me and another guide, who was in the same guide training batch as me, did it together. We haven't done a proper tour guiding before, but since we're doing it together so both of us didn't feel too nervous.

The family was so super funny. They had very big reactions everytime they saw an animal. Never saw people so excited and so much energy before. I giggled everytime I saw their excited faces in front of the animal. Furthermore, all the animals were so active on that day. Maybe it's because of the very nice weather. Even the koalas were on the move. Almost all the animals were in their best everytime we reached their exhibits. Giant tortoises, platypus, red panda, asian otters, etc.... all were actively catching visitors' attention.

The tour supposedly up till lunchtime. However, after lunch I bumped into them again and they asked whether can we continue guiding them. Luckily I was walking with another peer of mine, so we did the second half of the guiding together. Both of my peers did only half of the tour but I basically did the whole tour. Soooo tired. We even OT for an hour. @@"

Anyway, it was very fun with them. Enjoyed looking at their expressions very much. Lol.

By the way, I always find myself walking extra fast whenever I'm doing tour guiding no matter in uni or zoo. Or the people are just walking too slow? Hard to squeeze the whole tour into a certain amount of time la!

I'm curious why there aren't many Christmas decorations in a country that celebrates Christmas? Not even in shopping complexes. Compared to those in Malaysia, I realised that I've got nothing to take a picture of over here. I miss those extravagant decorations in 1 Utama or Mid Valley or Sunway Pyramid. =(