Ah Lei Mai's Story

My passion is environmental science.

When I started taking environmental science classes at school, I was really fascinated by it. I love learning about the environment, especially the marine life and its environment like stream, lake, river, and the ocean. It's remarkable to learn about the various forms of life that are in the sea. I learned a lot of breathtaking things in my environmental science class like how stunning the ocean would look and how many resources and how much life can be sustained without debris. Sometimes I go out to the beach and stare at the ocean. The surrounding is very calm and looks spectacular without waste everywhere.

Attending Camp SEA Lab Voyage Seaward would be an amazing opportunity for me. Sailing on a traditional 82 schooner will be a thrilling experience that could deepen my understanding about marine ecology and learning something completely new, like oceanography and meteorology. I love the sea and I gain deeper respect for it when I did a personal impact project for my environmental class and it wasn't too long ago. The whole point of the project was to reflect on something that I do that has a major impact on the environment and how I can go about changing it. Mine was about showering which has a huge impact on aquatic environment. From the research, I learned that using water in a necessary way can really pollute the water and destroy native species habitats. My study had me doing navy showers for a week to compare with my original behaviors. I saw a great difference in my change of behavior.