I don't have long to write, but I thought I'd post a quick update.
I'm in Zambia now, I arrived Thursday afternoon. I really really really miss St. Lucia, and wish I could go back right away, but I'm slowly adjusting. It's really hard to not be there and not be home. Being here, I kind of feel like I'm just waiting to go home, and it's making it really hard to get into things here. I'm not totally enjoying it here right now, the other volunteers are really great, but I think I'm ready to be home.
The project here isn't as great as where I was, but it's not too bad. The time with the Lions is really incredible, and the lion handlers are some of the coolest guys I've ever met, but there are some really big problems with how the program is run.
Today, I went to see some of the older lions they have here (two years old) who are really big and really scary, and we had to feed them. To do that, we drove a freshly killed donkey into their enclosure, dropped it off, and watched them attack it. It was pretty cool to see, but absolutely disgusting, especially when we could hear the bones cracking and when they started to eat the intestines and the stomach and the liver and the bile, and the fetus, because apparantly the donkey had been pregnant. That's definitely not something I ever thought I would see, but I also don't think I really need to see it again.
Anyways, I don't have many chances to use the internet here, but I'll try to write again before I leave, which I think might be a little bit earlier than expected.
