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"The healing sea" The island is growing. The volcanoes ferociously erupt, enveloping the land with liquid magma, only to be calmed by the ocean. Neither overtaking the power of the other, and together their interaction expands and grows the island for all its inhabitants. Did you know that 90% of the plants and animals on the islands of Hawai'i are found nowhere else in the world? Being back where I once was two years ago was nostalgic, magical, welcoming, assuring, and warm. It felt good. We stayed in Kona and the Kilauea Military Camp, which included many adventures I had already done myself when I was WWOOFing. Being in an educational program allowed me to learn things the locals could not tell me before. Soooooo I've had some time and opportunities to think about some things. Let me ask you: how do we put a monetary value on natural environmental assets? Plants detoxify the air, water, and soil. Photosynthesis and po...

Someone caught the travel bug. I did. And I ran around like a diseased maniac for about 2.5 months getting all the paperwork together so I could make the best study abroad experience EVER be possible in a very short time frame. Because I can't choose one place, and because I must be extra in everything, I will be studying (insert nerdy interests)* in Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji for ten weeks.  *Nerdy interests = The Triple Bottom Line, when a company/business/manufacturer takes into account the social, economic, and environmental aspects which are impacted.  While Cal Poly does offer some amazing options to study abroad, I chose to, instead, go rogue and find my own program.  Step 1. Google: "sustainability study abroad" Which involved a lot of this and this Until! I stumbled upon  this   site! Which enables me to travel to four amazing places, study what I want (affordably), and only miss one quarter of the Cal Poly year....