Edward Talatala '15

Sadly, today was the last day in the BVI. To soften the blow, the teachers let us sleep in until 9 o clock and gave us the afternoon to just relax around Guavaberry. For breakfast, Casey and Andrea brought everyone doughnuts, granola bars, yogurt, and juice underneath the chaperones's cabin. Afterwards, we headed over to our community service site,...

The main focus for our last day of diving in BVI was coral transplanting, which was divided into four steps: picking the staghorn coral from a coral reef, preparing the site where we would plant them, planting the coral, and measuring the successfully planted coral. After breakfast, marine 1 and marine 2 split off: marine 1 going on a...

Yesterday and today were filled with fun and excitement. Yesterday's activities included turtle tagging, seeing the rock formations in the baths, snorkeling around the baths, and a cookout at a beach. For turtle tagging, marine 1 separated into two groups: team 1 and team B. Team 1 went in the water to get dragged behind the boat by rope...

The morning of my first day in BVI was brutal because I barely got any sleep, and I didn't get much sleep because of these two reasons: I was jetlag from arriving from Hawaii literally the night before, and the room was as humid as Satan's sauna. I woke up bright and early at 6:20am, not because of the...

I'm taking marine bio bc my friends recommended it to me, saying that it's the most fun course and is actually interesting.