Cameron, one of my professor’s sons, leans up against the glass wall of the giraffe habitat, calling to the two giraffes inside to come closer.
LOCATION NOTATIONS
I spent the entire day at the Prague Zoo with my professor’s wife, two sons and one of my classmates. Everyone else in the program has already gone home, most before 9 a.m., but one classmate and I aren’t leaving until tomorrow night, so our professor’s family invited us to spend the day with them.
This was a really special day for me because I got to be around family for a few hours. I miss mine so much, so it was really nice to spend time with a surrogate mother and younger brothers, which is really what our professor’s family became to all of us in the program. The kids were funny, charming, well-behaved, kind and so much fun to be around. Our professor’s wife was comforting, funny, talkative and giving. I’m so glad I got to spend an extra day with them.
The Prague Zoo is huge. We were there for seven hours and still didn’t see everything. My favorite part of the zoo is the funicular up to the top of the hill on which the horse, camel, buffalo and elephant habitats rest. The funicular was like a ski lift, with single seats that had just a chain that went across your lap. There was a net underneath the lift; I wouldn’t have been able to ride it otherwise. We saw all sorts of animals: owls, eagles, lizards, horses, elephants, giraffes, flamingos, tigers, cheetahs, gorillas, moose, wolves, bison, antelope, polar bears, and so much more I can’t remember. It was wonderfully educational to be exposed to so many different animals from all over the globe.
Photographing Praha and Beyond 