Ok looks like the summer should be full of all sorts of fun adventures. Bryce is as beautiful as I remember and the people I will be working with are wonderful. I can tell already that I will have a lot to learn from them. My only complaint is that the job description asked for a designer to only help them make their trail wayside signs at Bryce Canyon, nothing else was advertised in it. So I applied and got the job, and now i am going to be playing the part of an official park ranger. I must have missed that somewhere, but it will be a good experience anyway and im really excited about it. I also did not know what an Interpreter even was or what they did.
So I will be in training 2 weeks and then getting comfortable working as an Interpreter after that I will start working on signs at the beginning of June. I feel bad that I applied for a job that I knew little about. (as far as the NPS and Interpretation) Luckily I have a background in guiding horseback rides at National Parks and Resorts chating about the area, so it seems like that area should be a fairly easy transition. Only thing that concerns me is that it seems like most of the other Interpreters I work with have voluntered at Bryce before, and worked at National Monuments and such and then moved up to being an Interpretive Ranger. I have not done either and hope I am not in over my head. I think it will be a really good experience no matter what, and plan on doing whatever it takes in order to get to the point I need to be.
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