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We went to the zoo today (we being some art classes and the art club), and our 'assignment' was to draw 10 sketches of animals we see there. I'm not very good at it (not at all really), but I like to draw (yes, even realism), so I wasn't particularly disappointed. I hadn't even been to the zoo here (in Kansas, that is), so I enjoyed it very much and had a pretty good time with my friends too (one of which's hair was so interesting that someone actually decided to get a picture of her instead of the 'walking cotton-candy').

My only problem was... Well, the animals. It's just somewhat depressing to see them in cages like that. I'm not with PETA or anything (I certainly don't care if you eat a rat on an island for a game-show... I know that sounds weird, by the way), but they just look so... I don't know, kind of innocent, or child like. I'm sure they have no clue why they're in there, and definitly wouldn't mind getting out. The 'lesser' animals, like the lizards and birds and such I don't feel so much for, just because they litterally can't remember that there's an outside world at all, but when we got to the gorrillas... Maybe I just take it too hard, but I can't help it. I know it sounds dumb, if not entirely retarded, but just the way the gorrilla looked at me, the manner in which it sat...

In any case, it's probably better than running from other animals in the wild, so I suppose it's not so bad in the long run... Eh, the suffering humans have inflicted on themsevles is unbelievably worse.

I do have just one thing to say though, "Yeti, say something banana flavored!"