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	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}Maya(1).jpg" style="width: 125px; height: 180px; float: right;" />My name is Maya&hellip;and once upon a time, I wasn&rsquo;t at Au Sable. Like most people my age, I was busy being a student&nbsp;and had a mountain of work to get through. For the better part of my last two years at college, I spent my life curled up in the science building trying to make sense of chemistry or genetics. My time playing outside was limited to labs or when I was recruited to help set minnow traps&hellip;. or during moments of rebellion when outside influence overruled my duty to schoolwork. In short, I was not afforded much outside/nature time.</p>
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	Then I graduated and took yet another class, Herpetology. Here we learned about many interesting critters, one of which was the hognose snake. These are super cool beasts puff at you and flatten their necks to look scary, sometimes even faking an elaborate death complete with lots of feces and twitching (I do not condone provoking them to this point!). Sadly, we never found a hognose in herpetology, and it seems that I have been too busy since to spend much time looking for one, but now that I am at Au Sable this may change.&nbsp;</p>
