When summer break approached, I was hesitant on what I was going to be doing this summer. A job? An internship? Just stay home and be a couch potato? The answer eventually became, no. I applied for the Marine Biology course conducted at our own, RIS, hoping to gain some environmental consciences and awareness. I was already a tree hugger (demanding every paper to be used on both sides, printing final essays on recycled paper, refusing to use paper cups at Starbucks), but there was something in my mind that I yearned to know. It was the life under the sea. Did they live just like humans? Or are fish's daily life consist of only eating and swimming around. I realized that one of the most intriguing reason that I joined this course was that it came with a diving certification. I first scuba dived when I was a kid but there was little that I took from that brief course. My uncle is an avid diver with more than 200 dives and his son has already completed his Open Water Diving certification, and soon, he will be completing his Advance certification in Koh Tao, where a ship has been recently sunk as a dive site. By the time I finish this course, I hope to be joining them, scuba diving around various dive sites in Thailand. From this Marine Biology course, I aspire to be a more eco-conscious person and be able to change different behaviors in my life that could eventually change the world, as a whole.
From our class yesterday, I had a brief introduction into the marine world. The Planet Blue video, especially, fascinated me and made me realize that marine organisms are just like human (part where the male fish was trying to flirt with the female but she seemed rather disinterested). The experiment also created a basic standard of knowledge about density, pressure and buoyancy. The second half of the day was also very engaging, as we were introduced to scuba diving. Even though I did not complete the Knowledge Review for Chapter 1, I completed the quiz with ease and I thoroughly understood the concepts of scuba diving
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