Summit Park - November
As a reminder, our community partner is the Dickerson Park Zoo, and our main goal is to get more people from the Drury campus and the community to volunteer. Our community partner has also asked us to redecorate the children’s maze, so that has been our main goal this month. Towards the beginning of the month, Genevieve and I (Lauren) got to work closely with the animals. I was assigned the Africa exhibit where I helped feed the cheetahs, bongos, ostriches, and most importantly, a red-ruffed lemur named Cordelia. That was the highlight of my trip that day as I got to go into her exhibit and distracted her from eating the other lemur’s food by scratching her arms and petting her (I kid you not though I do not have pictures to prove it). The rest of the time was spent cleaning out the hippo, giraffe, and ostrich exhibits in retrospect, I should have worn boots. The Dickerson Park Zoo even offers free housing to its interns which is very helpful to one that I met fr