Snake

Most people fear snakes, me too. But in my life, I never hurt by snakes. The first time I met a snake was around 10. At that time I joined a outdoor activity for mountain climbing in the nighttime. We watched some nocturnal animals and birds. On the way to leave the mountain, we met a snake but teachers didn't show fear. They taught us to calm down and how to treat animals. Then we passed by there and snake also disapeared soon. Though snakes did not hurt me, I fear of its appearance still. In my senior high school, the first year I joined the biological dissection club. In this way, I could have the experience of dissection prior than other students. And I had a special expereince that a student's parent assist us to buy snakes for dissection. At first, I didn't want to touch the snake. Until we used the alcohol to cook it and I was certainly sure the snake would not bite me. This is the first time I touched the real snake. I thought it was not so sacred at all. And it's ture that snake meat tastes would be better than chicken meat. However, I didn't eat it because I still in fear. Then how can I know sname meat is delicious than chicken meat? Because we just used hot water to boil it and we could smell the chicken soup at that moment. After two years, I was almost 18 in senior high school. And my school came a biology practice teacher. He had two pets, one is a cute snake and another one is scorpion. The snake he kept is a small python with orange and white color. Also it has the ruby (red jewel) eyes. I didn't know why my classmates were excited to play with his snake. So the snake just hidden its body into his hole. Then the practice teacher caught it to show us. Suddenly I found that snakes are also fear human beings. When I was 20, I started to know our aboriginal culture. Most legends mentioned to snakes and lizards. Originally I wanted to try snake meat for my liver, but since I knew our aboriginal culture, I would not eat it. In addition, I would not fear of snakes but respect them.