The last couple days have been filled with bus rides, getting lost, a hostel stay, a gross dorm room, and meetings with fancy resorts. Emma (another intern) and I went to Sanya to talk to the people at the Ritz-Carlton about some programs we are trying to start. Emma and I don't speak Chinese; our Chinese actually makes people concerned. I have no idea what they think we are saying, but occasionally they get a look on their face that suggests that we have said...

I've been so busy!! I always assume that if I'm not in school, I shouldn't be busy.. I guess this is what's like to have a real job, I just wish I could get paid.. The most recent news is I survived my first typhoon! The typhoon brought lots of anticipation but also brought some issues. The typhoon wasn't as strong as was predicted, and luckily it shifted so it did not hit us straight on. The day before the typhoon hit, we had to tie down the roof, along with ge...

This week has been epic! It has involved swimming with sharks, boat rides, teaching beer pong to Chinese fishermen, saving sea turtles, learning how to give liquids to turtles, swimming in the bay, and teaching high schoolers about sea turtles. The best part since the last time I wrote has been swimming with whale sharks!! They are awesome and huge!! We actually swam with juveniles, but they were still pretty big. One of the fishermen we've met allowed us to vis...

Things have been speeding up this week! I have got to experience motorbike sidecar rides, new food, smoothies, feeding turtles, cleaning nets and enclosures, exploring the village, singing oldies, riding taxi boats, and rooftop yoga sessions. I think I have finally adjusted to this insane humidity, that, or I am just used to consistently feeling sticky from sweat. Early this week, we woke up at 6:30am and hopped on some sidecars to get to a huge fish market. The...

I made it to China! The flight over was long (14 hours to Taiwan and another 3 hours --after flight changes to Sanya on Hainan Island), but overall it was good. The highlights of the flight were catching up on some moviEes. They played Valentine's Day (an okay movie but it was in English which was a bonus), they also played How to Tame Your Dragon but it was in Chinese, it looked like a cute movie from just watching what was going on. On every flight there was so...