I ran the fire column stage show today for one of the school groups in today (I think they were around 2nd graders). The kids cheered so loud for the first one Pat came down to check and I had them do a count down from 3 for the second one. It was pure serotonin seeing the kids so excited about it.
I was ticket taking at Pixar. Today is Eid-al-Fitr (Muslim holiday that takes place after Ramadan). Arab Muslims saw me wearing my Keffiyeh (my Palestinian scarf looking thing I wear). Arab guests are usually quiet. Reason being is because they are nervous in public due to the backlash we normally get, especially if you’re a woman wearing hijab. Palestinians are very loved in the Arab community. For the first time since I began working here, I heard them shout.
They shouted at me in Arabic “As-salamu alaykum ya Philistini” which means Peace be upon you Palestinian. They did this nearly every time they passed me. Stopped to shake my hand and converse with me in Arabic, and wished me a Happy Eid. A family was actually Palestinian and were overjoyed to see me wearing this due to hardly any representation anywhere for Palestinians. It was very emotional for me and overwhelming in the best possible way to share these moments today with our guests and my people.
Kid: (running into TCM, wide-eyed in wonder) Whoa! What…is…THIS? (Turns object to look at it from all sides.)
Me (an intellectual): THAT…is…a STOOL. We have MANY!
Today I was showing a young girl how to make flowers out of upcycled plastic grocery bags. I told her to watch what I was doing very closely. After a moment I realizes she was not looking at my hands, She was leaning forward and looking really closely into my eyes
I was in the woods with a wolf head and gloves on along with a turtle shell. There was a baby that I got to play with learning hard and soft with the shell and gloves. The baby kept grabbing the soft fur gloves and it was super cute.
I was running the fireball stage show today and the second show was for 2 little ones and their grownups (2 separate families). The kids were so excited that they were about 6 inches from the barrier between the crowd and stage. They both asked very good questions about it and asked for high fives when I was done. The little girl also said she liked my bedazzled safety glasses and sparkly nails. (because who said science can’t be sparkly)
Today while I had a few different animals out (at different times of course) I got some friends who were a little nervous to be brave and pet the cockroach and later snake anyway.
Also I joined the “I got pooped on by a snake club”‘ thanks to Louis
Ran the Ordovician Observations cart. I asked two guys if they wanted to see fossils older than the dinosaurs; when they turned to me I saw their trilobite tee shirts. They turned out to be collectors of Ordovician fossils, with more than 10000 specimens in their collections. I told them they should stand behind the cart and I would go to the other side and ask THEM questions. They were very impressed with dino hall, and disappointed that Mission Ordovician was not yet up and running.
I was working in MNHS earlier ths week on a day when we had quite few field trips. I was back and forth between variuos galleries all morning with the school groups but when they thinned out I noticed there was a guest had been in Dino hall for over an hour. I went over to ask if he had any Dinosaur questions
First thing he said was ” I’m from deep in Kentucky where we don’t have museums. I knew how long dinosaur bones are from books and TV, but I had not really realized how thick and wide they are.”
Turns out he was in his early 30’s, and a life long dionsaur lover, but he had not seen a nonavian dinosaur in person before that day. Coming to CMC to see our dinosaurs was 1st thing on his “bucket list” after he got his 1st full time job with paid vacation. He was so much in awe of our collection he was amost in tears. I spent about 30 mins talking to him about our dinosaurs and dionsaurs in general. He had so much up to date knowlege about the field I felt honored to be the person to “introduce” him to “real” dinos for the 1st time. It reminded me why I love my job. After he had seen every thing in our gallery, and the fossil prep lab, we chatted about other museums he could visit in a day trip, or long weekend, that have nice dinosaur collections, but he was already planning anothet trip to CMC to see dinos again and maybe the rest of the museum.
This made me realize, again, how important museums like CMC are, and how lucky I was as a dinosaur crazy kid to grow up getting to visit CMC’s ancestor CMNH, and see “Big Al”. He might not have been a very good representation of what we now think allosaurus look like, but he was real and he was in my home town.
I had just finished a Science stage show doing dust fire ball explosion when a women who had been in the audience came up to thank me. She said,
“You were simply lovely.”
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I ran the fire column stage show today for one of the school groups in today (I think they were around 2nd graders). The kids cheered so loud for the first one Pat came down to check and I had them do a count down from 3 for the second one. It was pure serotonin seeing the kids so excited about it.
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I was ticket taking at Pixar. Today is Eid-al-Fitr (Muslim holiday that takes place after Ramadan). Arab Muslims saw me wearing my Keffiyeh (my Palestinian scarf looking thing I wear). Arab guests are usually quiet. Reason being is because they are nervous in public due to the backlash we normally get, especially if you’re a woman wearing hijab. Palestinians are very loved in the Arab community. For the first time since I began working here, I heard them shout.
They shouted at me in Arabic “As-salamu alaykum ya Philistini” which means Peace be upon you Palestinian. They did this nearly every time they passed me. Stopped to shake my hand and converse with me in Arabic, and wished me a Happy Eid. A family was actually Palestinian and were overjoyed to see me wearing this due to hardly any representation anywhere for Palestinians. It was very emotional for me and overwhelming in the best possible way to share these moments today with our guests and my people.
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Kid: (running into TCM, wide-eyed in wonder) Whoa! What…is…THIS? (Turns object to look at it from all sides.)
Me (an intellectual): THAT…is…a STOOL. We have MANY!
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Today I was showing a young girl how to make flowers out of upcycled plastic grocery bags. I told her to watch what I was doing very closely. After a moment I realizes she was not looking at my hands, She was leaning forward and looking really closely into my eyes
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I was in the woods with a wolf head and gloves on along with a turtle shell. There was a baby that I got to play with learning hard and soft with the shell and gloves. The baby kept grabbing the soft fur gloves and it was super cute.
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I was running the fireball stage show today and the second show was for 2 little ones and their grownups (2 separate families). The kids were so excited that they were about 6 inches from the barrier between the crowd and stage. They both asked very good questions about it and asked for high fives when I was done. The little girl also said she liked my bedazzled safety glasses and sparkly nails. (because who said science can’t be sparkly)
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rip forgot to put name but this was from samantha
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Today while I had a few different animals out (at different times of course) I got some friends who were a little nervous to be brave and pet the cockroach and later snake anyway.
Also I joined the “I got pooped on by a snake club”‘ thanks to Louis
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add Millipede to the list, so I’m 2/4 today
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Ran the Ordovician Observations cart. I asked two guys if they wanted to see fossils older than the dinosaurs; when they turned to me I saw their trilobite tee shirts. They turned out to be collectors of Ordovician fossils, with more than 10000 specimens in their collections. I told them they should stand behind the cart and I would go to the other side and ask THEM questions. They were very impressed with dino hall, and disappointed that Mission Ordovician was not yet up and running.
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I was working in MNHS earlier ths week on a day when we had quite few field trips. I was back and forth between variuos galleries all morning with the school groups but when they thinned out I noticed there was a guest had been in Dino hall for over an hour. I went over to ask if he had any Dinosaur questions
First thing he said was ” I’m from deep in Kentucky where we don’t have museums. I knew how long dinosaur bones are from books and TV, but I had not really realized how thick and wide they are.”
Turns out he was in his early 30’s, and a life long dionsaur lover, but he had not seen a nonavian dinosaur in person before that day. Coming to CMC to see our dinosaurs was 1st thing on his “bucket list” after he got his 1st full time job with paid vacation. He was so much in awe of our collection he was amost in tears. I spent about 30 mins talking to him about our dinosaurs and dionsaurs in general. He had so much up to date knowlege about the field I felt honored to be the person to “introduce” him to “real” dinos for the 1st time. It reminded me why I love my job. After he had seen every thing in our gallery, and the fossil prep lab, we chatted about other museums he could visit in a day trip, or long weekend, that have nice dinosaur collections, but he was already planning anothet trip to CMC to see dinos again and maybe the rest of the museum.
This made me realize, again, how important museums like CMC are, and how lucky I was as a dinosaur crazy kid to grow up getting to visit CMC’s ancestor CMNH, and see “Big Al”. He might not have been a very good representation of what we now think allosaurus look like, but he was real and he was in my home town.
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I had just finished a Science stage show doing dust fire ball explosion when a women who had been in the audience came up to thank me. She said,
“You were simply lovely.”
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