Naturalist Training
Starting tomorrow morning, I’m off to a 3 day naturalist training workshop being conducted by Jungle lodges Training Institute at Bannerghatta Nature Camp. The course will consist of Role of Naturalists, Interpretive Skills, Introduction to reptiles, mammals, insects, butterfly’s, birds, Conservation issues etc.
At the end of the course, time to ask them for a job 😀
Have fun!
interpreting is fun.
i once spent a whole summer working at a provincial park as a natural heritage education interpreter. i got to lead hikes on a trail, develop neat displays about turtles and insects, and the highlight of my summer — the program i developed about bats and spiders. it was the best summer i’ve ever had…
enjoy, and hope you get a job! 🙂
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heh, thanks. Working with animals has been my childhood dream. Was inspired by watching Gane goodall in NGC when I was a kid. I gave up the idea thinking its was a wild one ( like how I also wanted to become an astronaut ). But now looks like I just might get to follow my dream 🙂
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i almost didn’t even apply for the job because i figured it was out of my reach — and then i got it, and just like you, it’d been a dream of mine — it was so surreal. do you know david suzuki? he was my inspiration.
you never know until you try 🙂
(seeing you with those elephants would be enough for *anyone* to give you a job with animals!)
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pursue … persevere … u will succeed … and yeah! don’t forget to have fun …
( and it is Jane with a ‘J’;)
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Heh.. people have given up correcting me. You still have the energy :)You are still not used to my typos 😉
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I love david suzuki’s series. I used to watch them when I was in Canada, but sadly it never used to come here in India. Now that we get animal planet here, I atleast get to see a lot of david attenborough programs and he’s very good as well.
Will have to wait till the end of the course and see. I’m still not too good at identifying birds.. I can prob max identify 25 – 30 of them here ( out of 100+ )
animal planet
(we don’t get that here… unfortunately! but we have discovery, which is similar.)
the cool thing about interpreting is that you’re always learning, and the people who hire you will know this and keep it in mind. you can learn about birds as you go.
huzzah for the davids! 🙂
note to self
I will not confuse between naturists and naturalists, I will not confuse between naturists and naturalists, I will not confuse between naturists and naturalists…..
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ok Galyan whatever u say 😀
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You are hereby requested to cease and desist from any further infringement of Kallu’s Copyrighted and Patented IP aka KalluSpell™ or risk dealing with his “legal” team of 300lb gorillas!
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That was the first thing that passed my mind too….
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In Gane ke khet mein tamatar kitho?
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dancing tiger … speaking of gorillas … on a post relating to ‘naturalist’ … perfect 🙂
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idhar
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David Suzuki didn’t become “The Greatest Canadian” 🙁
Are you following “The Nature of Things” on CBC? They did an episode on the Bhopal Gas Tragedy in India in 1985 last week. Was very very well made, as always 🙂
i’ve been an ostrich for the past two weeks,
because of dreaded exams, so i haven’t watched much tv. “the nature of things” is always interesting, and now i’m particularly interested in the episode you mentioned.. i hope they replay it soon.
is it un-canadian of me not to know who *did* win the title of “greatest canadian”? how awful…! as i said, ostrich with my head in the sand…
🙂
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I personally love the fifth estate a lot … that is one show I almost never miss. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it.
I’ll let you find out for yourself 😉
Whereabouts do you live anyways?
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i remember watching “the fifth estate” with my father when i was just a youngling.
canadian television is so underrated… do you enjoy rick mercer? i try and watch his monday reports whenever i can remember 😉
tommy douglas, eh? should i know who he is? (i’m shaking my head at my own ignorance)
moi j’habite a vancouver… et toi?
😉
aucut sujet.
Indeed. It beats the shit out of most US Television I have ever laid my eyes on though I have heard good things about US TV too …
I know of his existence, and I know of his sexual orientations as well, but no, I have never had the opportunity to savor his humor, unfortunately. I wasn’t at Concordia when he visited earlier this year too …
Good – Even I had/have no clue who that is, if it helps. However I didn’t grow up in Canada …
Ah oui, d’accord. Est-ce que tu parles francais aussi? Normalement, j’habite a Montreal, mais maintenant je suis un etudiant a l’ecole de langue francaise et de culture quebecoise a l’Universite de Quebec a Chicoutimi … c’est une petite ville a la nord du Quebec (ville de quebec). Moi, j’ai etudie a le niveau debutant pendant quatre mois et maintenant je suis pret pour le niveau intermediare. Je pense que je veux continuer mes etudes en francaise l’ete prochain …
Je partirai pour Montreal ce samedi matin. Je veux y aller pendant longtemps … aie!
(Je suis desolee, je n’ai pas un clavier avec les accents …)
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“Je suis desolee, je n’ai pas un clavier avec les accents …”
moi non plus…! mon ordinateur ancien avait un clavier francais.. mais ca fait presqu’une annee que j’ai achete une nouvelle machine.
ca fait longtemps que je parle ou meme ecrit en francais, j’espere que tu ne comptes pas mes fautes de grammaire!
aimes-tu chicoutimi? j’ai l’impression que tu aimes bien montreal — j’ai visite montreal deux ou trois foix, mais ca fait des annees que j’y suis allee.
donc tu n’es pas canadien, mais tu es francophone? tu etudies tout simplement au quebec? ton francais est extraordinaire pour quelqu’un qui a etudie pour seulement quatre mois! 🙂
aucun sujet …
Ah, j’ai trouvé un clavier dans ce labo et alors, je peux écrire avec les accents maintenant … 😉
Normalement, j’utilise un ordinateur portable (par sony) et c’est vraiment trop petit. Haha, ma français ecrit est vraiment très mauvaise (particulièrement, ma grammaire) et alors je ne peux pas compte tes fautes de grammaire!
Ouais, bien-sûr, Chicoutimi est une très belle ville sauf que c’est très petite aussi … J’adore le culture ici, au Saguenay. Tout le monde ici est vraiment très sympathique est très gentil. Je n’ai pas vu beaucoup de personnes comme ça pendant longtemps … oui, j’ai déjà habité à Montréal pendant 2 ans entre Août 2002 et Août 2004 mais j’ai jamais étudié français quand j’était là. C’est mon prèmiere fois que je vraiment apprendre le culture québecoise et c’est très interessant … et ouais, j’aime Montréal. C’est une ville incomparable vraiment. J’ai beaucoup des amis maintenant aussi, et c’est ma « vrai maison ». Non, je ne suis pas un francophone, pas du tout! Français est mon sixième langue … hehe … oui, j’ai étudie ma maîtrise pendant 1 an en génie civil mais je n’ai pas aimé … pendant le deuxième an, j’ai étudié un diplôme en science informatique (2e cycle) et alors, je commencerai mes études (maîtrise en science informatique) a l’Université Concordia ce Janvier …
Merci beaucoup pour tes compliments, mais je ne suis pas très satisfié avec mon progrès … cependant, je peux parler mieux que je peux écrire 🙂 Aussi, si tu n’ai pas pratiqué ton français pendant un an, c’est incroyable que tu peux écrire comme ça! Est-ce que tu es un francophone?
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oh! accents! now i’m really out of my league… 🙂
i’m shifting into english because the last post took me quite a while to write. it’s just not as easy as it used to be. i went to francophone school for most of my life, and until about grade 6 my french was better than my english.
you have a really interesting background.. and six languages?! holy crap! that’s quite impressive! i’ve spent the last two years trying to learn punjabi, that would be my third language, but it’s by no means “in use” right now..
quebec is a neat place — glad you’re enjoying it. i’ve always loved it. quebec city feels like a piece of europe in the middle of canada…
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I realized when I re-read what I wrote without accents and it made hardly any sense. Besides, a proper fr-only machine is sitting half a meter away from me, so might as well put that to use too 😉
Of course. I was surprised by the choice of words/vocabulary for someone in Vancouver. I am yet to meet someone educated outside of Quebec that has a “reasonable” vocabulary in french (to be fair, I’ve not met too many non-quebeckers who speak any french at all)
There you go — that explains things a lot better *phew* 🙂 I really really wish my french were significantly better though. Oh well …
It isn’t an enviable, or easy task though I reckon it shouldn’t be too hard for you to find a linguistic partner in the B.C. area? Do you speak fluent hindi? Punjabi may not be too difficult in the case, but without even a base of hindi, I would imagine it would be close to impossible to learn punjabi now.
In any case, I don’t know that is enjoying this “hijacking” of his LJ, if you will. I’ll friend you in a sec, and perhaps we can move the french over to your/my LJ. Cheers, I’m off home now.
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🙂
Enjoy
You should try reading Jim corbetts books i’m sure you will like it.
esp. “Man-Eaters of Kumaon” and “The Temple Tiger and More Man Eaters of Kumaon”
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I remember having read stories about Jane Goodall the Chimpanzee Lady’s exploits in african forests in 10th standard CBSE books and was completely mesmerized by it ..