I opened my eyes to a crisp morning, with soft sounds of a creek nearby and birds and wildlife slowly coming to life as I sat up and unzipped my tent to greet the morning. I’d been on many adventures over the years, from swimming with manta rays in Hawai’i to parasailing in the hills…
I see these giveaways and contests all the time, on the radio, on social media, at public events – and always wonder if anyone actually wins those things.
I was failing chemistry and didn’t know where to turn. The next thing I knew, I was signed up to study abroad in Costa Rica and my entire life had changed.
Back in 2016 I was working as an intern at a field studies program in Costa Rica. During the semester we traveled with the students and professors to field sites where they were taught about environmental conservation and how to conduct field research surveying wildlife, collecting samples from field sites, or even interviewing communities. At…