Some might call education sitting in desks and copying vocabulary words out of textbooks. Others might say its learning from your mistakes. I believe the most education you can get comes from getting out of your comfort zone and trying new things. One of my personal life goals is to experience as much as I can with the time I have on Earth. Keeping life interesting and exciting is a necessity. Being emerged in breathtaking surroundings is the best education I have experienced. This summer I got the chance to go to a sailing camp in the Caribbean. When I signed up, I was not looking for sun bathing on the top of a boat, rather an adventurous challenge. Over the course of two weeks, I cooked all of my meals, learned how to sail a fifty-foot
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I ended the trip with eight successful open water dives under my belt! Learning about buoyancy and how to equalize were huge tasks during diving lessons. On my fifth dive, I arrived at a dive sight called Chimney. Chimney was a sixty-foot dive with huge boulders everywhere. Magnificent, colorful marine plants covered the rocks while different patterned fish swam everywhere. Right as I headed back to be boat a hammerhead shark swam right past me. Later, when telling the other dive instructors what I saw, they were amazed and said, “I have been diving for forty years and have never seen a hammer head!” Scuba diving is spectacular because the plants and animals I saw I do not get to see every day, and that is what gives the ocean such a magical effect.
Five girls and five boys lived on my boat. One boy, named Daniel, was from Spain. Daniel was reserved for the first few days but slowly came out of his shell. Every day he would tell me about nightlife in Spain and the school systems. I loved when he talked about the different culture and when he would make fun of me for saying, “Y’all.” The most interesting part was that he was fluent in three different languages. He said being bilingual was common for most Europeans, and the fact that most Americans were not was weird. Seeing a little taste of the Spanish culture opened my eyes to a completely new
I ended the trip with eight successful open water dives under my belt! Learning about buoyancy and how to equalize were huge tasks during diving lessons. On my fifth dive, I arrived at a dive sight called Chimney. Chimney was a sixty-foot dive with huge boulders everywhere. Magnificent, colorful marine plants covered the rocks while different patterned fish swam everywhere. Right as I headed back to be boat a hammerhead shark swam right past me. Later, when telling the other dive instructors what I saw, they were amazed and said, “I have been diving for forty years and have never seen a hammer head!” Scuba diving is spectacular because the plants and animals I saw I do not get to see every day, and that is what gives the ocean such a magical effect.
Five girls and five boys lived on my boat. One boy, named Daniel, was from Spain. Daniel was reserved for the first few days but slowly came out of his shell. Every day he would tell me about nightlife in Spain and the school systems. I loved when he talked about the different culture and when he would make fun of me for saying, “Y’all.” The most interesting part was that he was fluent in three different languages. He said being bilingual was common for most Europeans, and the fact that most Americans were not was weird. Seeing a little taste of the Spanish culture opened my eyes to a completely new