It seem like a life time. Everything back home is rapidly disappearing in my memory. I have been thrown in a the deep end. Setting up the new medical centre they have built here and new procedures and protocols for the Oranguatan care. I can't communicate with anyone except perhaps the Apes.
All meals are rice, and often ONLY rice.
The beds are hard and fairly dirty and I am working 12 hours every day. As you can imagine, I fit right in. The Animals are wonderful, very responsive. The younger ones are especially friendly, as they get older they tend to want to be more solitary. In the wild they live on there own in the tops of the trees, only meeting others on the edges of their territories.