My Favorite New Year's Resolution

Hello Blog audience. Welcome to my place for stories. These will be stories about my new year's resolution to volunteer every week at the zoo. I'm really excited about volunteering and about sharing the stories. I needed a little adventure.

I didn't really know that I was interested in zoos until about a year ago. Since then I've visited six zoos, aquariums, or aviaries in Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, Brazil, and Argentina (and a few more on Google). I've caught myself clicking the links to see what zoo positions are available and I've also downloaded a few zoo desktop pictures for my computer at work. It was getting a little out of hand when I started attaching animal pictures to work-related emails.

I also didn't really know that I needed somewhere to go. I like my home, my work, and my church, but they're all in this little corner of town. Even my grocery store and laundromat are just three minutes away. Something's wrong with that. I'm busy enough and happy, but it's all in the same place with mostly the same people.

Then, in a moment of epiphany sometime between Christmas and New Years I knew I had to volunteer at the zoo. It was a chance to travel all over the world, see new things, meet new people, be a helper, work with animals, and best of all - have good stories to tell.