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At first when we arrived at school, I let her out and put her on a new perch that I bought her yesterday, I attached two new toys on either side and let her have a look around.....All she wanted to do was sit on my shoulder, she was nervous and scared.

My students started coming into the room and noticed that I had a parrot, well the first thing they wanted to do was come over and see her, by this time I had most of my students over at my desk asking all kinds of questions.
Yhis continued for about 15 min. One of my students(girl) was very scared of her, but at the end of the period she actually came over to Kally, stood in front of her and talked to her very softly, and the two of them got along. She (girl) was no longer scared of her..........Now she cant wait until I bring her back on Monday......... :icon_smil

Then in the afternoon, I had grade 10 students come in and one girl, saw Kally and ran for the door, she was so scared of birds that she actually started crying.............I had to go into the hall and calm her down..........This truely was very amazing to me, as to how some people are very frightened of birds.

The day went really well, about 3 oclock, Kally was pooped, and she sat on her perch and didnt move....................nor did she PICK ANY FEATHERS :eusa_clap ...............This was my whole intention of bringing her in the first place......................and man did it help.........no picking........

I know this is long, but I just wanted to share this very interesting day, some thing even shock me. And it was very interesting to hear about different storied thats the students had to say about people and their birds............and people that are scared of birds can now see just how loving they really are, like today when Kally was under my chin snuggling....it opened up another door into peoples hearts.

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