 My name is Arissa Barsinas and I'm from the island of Guam, currently studying at the University of Hawaii. I'm really enjoying it. It's been definitely very challenging. It's very intensive, but I've been learning so much since just in the little bit of time that we've been here. We've been learning so much from our lectures and then from our workshops. It's a bunch of stuff that I've never studied, I've never done. And so it's definitely been very new and a lot of information to take in. I think that growing up on an island and living in an island my entire life has definitely made climate change more... It has made me more aware of the effects of climate change and seeing things like coral bleaching just from observation, like growing up, seeing how live the coral was before versus now. And so it's a lot of things that you notice and it gets to the point where it's... In order to do something to protect the beauty and to protect your home, there needs to be action done. And I think that's why this field was something that I was really interested in. I think that meeting everybody from so many different places has been one of the greatest experiences here. And everyone is so different and so friendly and it's just so interesting to hear about everybody's culture and where they come from and to learn so much. And I think that it's definitely a great environment to learn in with people that are so amazing. I definitely plan to continue with environmental science, something related to preserving our environment, whether it be from the science aspect or after this program even maybe in policy or economics, things like that. I think that this program has really opened a lot of doors and interest in what I could do with the future. The summer school offered a travel grant, which was a great offer because especially when you're traveling from so far, it's really hard to afford to go to a different country to study. And so I definitely wouldn't be here if I wasn't able to get that grant.