Passion emerges in the strangest of places. When my family and I shoved our lives into four giant suitcases and flew to Ecuador, I was only in fourth grade. I had no idea what to expect, I only knew that I was going to be doing something so incredibly unique for a person of my age. What I actually experienced upon my first month was intense discomfort. I encountered a new language, a new culture, a new people; there were only the familiar faces of my family that reassured me. Although not always easy, it is during times of change that a person can figure out what truly defines them. In my case, the love of natural sciences.
We resided in the city of Cuenca, going to a Spanish speaking school, and attempting to grasp the language so we could understand the material being taught. Science and math, never my strongest subjects, became twofold harder when I could barely comprehend what the teacher …show more content…
The air was fresher, and being a city girl all my life, I had never known what uncontaminated breathing felt like. Every plant and animal appeared in deeper, more vivid, shades than I had ever seen. And, at night, there were so many stars that they almost obscured the blackness. As I laid in my mom’s lap, she told me these were the perfect conditions to see a shooting star. Of course, I never did see a shooting star, but in my waiting, I realized that no matter how many times I looked up to the sky at home it would never come close to what I could see during those nights. I thought about the amount of air pollution it takes to cover up something so brilliant. Even to this day, I think about those stars when I see reports of the pollution in the Amazon. I think about the acid rain that has the potential to contaminate the soil that all the organisms depend on, the idea of destroying something so fragile and intricate in a matter of
We resided in the city of Cuenca, going to a Spanish speaking school, and attempting to grasp the language so we could understand the material being taught. Science and math, never my strongest subjects, became twofold harder when I could barely comprehend what the teacher …show more content…
The air was fresher, and being a city girl all my life, I had never known what uncontaminated breathing felt like. Every plant and animal appeared in deeper, more vivid, shades than I had ever seen. And, at night, there were so many stars that they almost obscured the blackness. As I laid in my mom’s lap, she told me these were the perfect conditions to see a shooting star. Of course, I never did see a shooting star, but in my waiting, I realized that no matter how many times I looked up to the sky at home it would never come close to what I could see during those nights. I thought about the amount of air pollution it takes to cover up something so brilliant. Even to this day, I think about those stars when I see reports of the pollution in the Amazon. I think about the acid rain that has the potential to contaminate the soil that all the organisms depend on, the idea of destroying something so fragile and intricate in a matter of