I couldn’t tell my story without first being truly honest with you. My volunteer experience at the Marine Mammal Center started off all wrong. It began with disappointment. Admittedly, selfish disappointment, that I now regret wasting emotional energy on.
As soon as our tour of the center (you can read more about the facility in my 1st post) ended and we were transitioning to the volunteer-shadowing portion of our day, I was pulled aside (along with another pregnant blogger participant). Word had spread of our situation and the center had concerns–legitimately so.
Because of the possibility of the animals (or the things they came in contact with) passing along unknown viruses to our vulnerable bodies, we were advised to stay away from the nitty-gritty, get-your-hands-dirty (or fishy) volunteer work. [Read more…]