Denial

So, I am in complete denial.

How is it August 6th? How is summer almost over? How is it possible that it's almost time for me to head home? How am I going to survive in a place that doesn't have the Caribbean Sea, mangos, wild horses and passionfruit?

Instead of actually answering or even thinking about the reality behind these questions, I'm going to pretend they don't exist.

I have been all over the place this past week or so as I'm tweaking and making edits on my final video project -- I decided to add a few more clips/trademark Trust videos-- and I've also begun doing a mini-research project on the chemistry behind the reaction of luciferin and luciferase in the biobay.

Pepe the Octopus

The chemistry project has gotten me super excited as I'm able to apply some of my chemistry background to something as awesome as the bioluminescent bay. The even COOLER part of this mini-research project is that I'm finding that the studies on the mechanisms behind bioluminescence have been relatively unexamined by the scientific world, so hopefully someday I can come back here to begin studying and researching this topic!

In other exciting news, Mark literally stumbled upon a baby octopus at the beach! We named him Pepe, and he's the newest member of the Marine Life Exhibit at the Trust.

As always, time is flying by here much more quickly than I would like or could've ever imagined. I am still not ready to leave this place, especially since I have a lot of things to wrap up before my time is through here!

Me and Melissa goofing around...