facing one of my fears

I know I already blogged a bunch, but something scary but cool just happened. In my Biological Diversity class we're learning about snakes. We're dissecting them next week and I wasn't too thrilled about it. I hate snakes, they're slimy and scary and I'd rather just stay as far away from them as I can.

Today in class, my professor just finished telling us about some snakes that ate humans and about a professor who was bit by a snake on a student trip and after telling his students what was going to happen to him, died because it was a remote location and no one could get to them in time, when a guy walked in the room with a large crate.

Dr Sites asked if anyone was afraid of snakes as the "snake guy" pulled out this little guy.

Its a terrible picture from my cell phone, but I was scared to death and I had to get a picture for proof that I did it.

As my professor is holding this snake talking about labial and loreal pits, the "snake guy" is grunting and pulling something else out of the crate. He pulled out a huge snake! It was seriously at least 10 inches in diameter and he needed 5 other people to help him hold it. I didn't get a picture of me holding that snake, there were too many people around it, but I did it. I held the back end and as soon as it started to wrap its tail around my waist I ran away. haha I let someone else take their turn holding the beast.