An odd choking feeling...

[ffutures]

Although I'm a lab technician, not a teacher, I'm occasionally asked to talk about snakes for school classes etc.

I did one of these lessons a couple of weeks ago, for a class of kids with learning difficulties, the teacher has just put the pictures she took onto the server. Unfortunately only a couple show me without the kids - for legal reasons I can't put their pictures on line - and only one of them was reasonably sharply in focus.

So this is me in full flow talking about (I think) the way that snakes move their bodies, while Sam does his best to strangle me...







It's the first picture of Sam I've put on line in a few years - he's now about 17 years old but still going strong, about 5ft long and weighing a couple of kilos. He's never bitten anyone, which makes him perfect for this sort of thing.

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Nice!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Not as sharp as I would like, but OK.

[lillian13.livejournal.com]

I bet the kids really enjoyed your talk. :-)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I think so - I saw them today and a lot of them asked how he is, so he obviously made an impression.

[raygungothic.livejournal.com]

Lovely snake. Nice pic too.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I wish I could have shown some of the pictures of him with kids, but I'm not allowed to do that.

[nelc.livejournal.com]

You can't blur the kids, or pixellate them?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

The rules are pretty clear on this, and especially with special needs kids, who may have mental or emotional vulnerabilities, I'm not prepared to take any chances.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

What a nice picture - of both of you.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

He's a lovely lad.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

He's so laid back I sometimes think he's running on Valium.

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

Fantastic pic! Lovely, both of you.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[i_kender]

Hey, excellent pic! You look like a kindly wizard... with Parseltongue presumably ;)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I wish. I would love to be able to say "Your food is over there, you idiot" and have the snakes understand.