Wigs! Dolphins! OH MY!

Today was a very interesting and questionable day. It all started with this purple wig; well it was my purple wig. Why did I have a purple wig at the program? It’s a long and unimportant story...the story here is that in the morning, I was rocking out that purple wig until Felix saw the wig and asked to put it on. Now, you need to understand that Felix is a grown man with a mustache. A mustache people!!! A mustache plus a purple wig and a museum equals a lot of questionable looks and laughter. It’s like when your parent drop you off for your first day of school and shouts out your childhood embarrassing nickname as you are in the middle of a crowd… and they have rollers/hair net on. Funny but somewhat embarrassing to say that is your dad. Alright, it wasn't that bad but it was just too much to handle for the day. Yet, it created an interesting morning as he went around the museum greeting all the impact students. The wig-scapades was short lived because it was getting too hot underneath all that purple hair for him. So, with some help from my friend, Kaitlin, I put my wig back on and we all headed to RSMAS. Just my luck we had a speaker. I was scared that she would question me wearing a purple wig but she didn't and to my surprise the talk wasn't as bad as I expected. It was really interesting, though it’s hard to top off an undersea Aquatics lab Mark talked to us about last week. Our speaker was Ruth Ewing and she is a veterinary medical officer. She worked with a government program to help stranded mammals. That means those poor animals that get washed up on the beach shores sometimes and the ones that are way too far from their habits. She showed us some cases she had, even the ones that didn't end so well. It was kind of sad but she didn't let it end that way.

She even told us about getting ahead during our college year, the importance of taking internships and doing volunteer work. That it will help and may even get us a job at the place we volunteer at. Out of all the talks, I felt like her talk hit home with me. Probably it was because she also gave us a life lesson from her own experiences. -Amanda