Cal's Week Three

This has been an interesting week. Not much has happened, more curriculum guides have had to be written and the Discovery Room has had to be cleaned.
The Discovery Room is a place in the museum for smaller children to have fun and learn at the same time, it gets very messy very quickly, so from time to time we stop by and help out whenever possible. The museum is also building/renovating a new and improved Discovery Room, but that won't be here for awhile so we won't get to see that anytime soon.

Personally, I've been having a blast at work. Not much has happened, today we had hotdogs because of Memorial Day, but other than that it's just been working in the office. As soon as Summer Camps start, things will pick up, but that comes with a lot of rushing about and stress.

This Saturday I might help with the Junior Volunteer training, that should be a lot of fun.

I hope everyone has had a fantastic time at their internships! In other news, if anyone wants to come to Salsa it's a load of fun, practice at the Reitz Union breezeway every Tuesday and Thursday 6pm-8pm.

Training Day! Or, "It Takes a Wolf to Catch a Wolf."

Hi everyone, I'm Callum Ellison. I'm a geology student here at UF and I've been working in education or with kids for a very long time. I always wanted to be a teacher or work with children in some capacity, and I realized over the course of my internship at the Florida Museum of Natural History that I would love to work in a museum, or a similar place of informal learning.
I imagine that I'll work on another EDEP project this summer, this Fall's program will be around Megalodon, so I'm super excited to get my hands on that one. If not, there's about a hundred different things that are open for us to do around here, the museum is always in need of driven students. 


This week has been slow, finishing up the Spring semester stuff at the museum. I have finished another curriculum guide, this one about insects. Camp is approaching fast so we need to get these guides out to the teachers in order for them to get their lesson plans in for us ASAP. 
On Saturday we had training. I had done it last year, but that was more than fine since they provided us with some snacks. All in all, I'd call it a wonderful day and I'm ready to begin my Summer work at the museum tomorrow!

P.S. The image to the right is from when we opened the exhibit "Wolf to Woof," and I figured it's relevant. Her name was Penelope and she is adorable. 
The quote is from a movie, I promise I'm not just randomly talking about wolves.