In short, Lewa Widlife Conservancy is a unique place originally established as a wildlife sanctuary, but today is much more in terms of community involvement and organization. Hence this is how its possible to send 5 adventurous, crazy, (insert other adjective of your liking here) students with different roles to the same place.
Questions I have received so far about Lewa include:
"where/how are you living?"
"do you know the other people?"
"are you scared?"
"are there snakes?"
"are there rats?"
Answers to those questions that I have come up with include:
"I'll be living in a tent!"
"I have met the other interns - pretty cool bunch of people if I do say so myself!!!"
"Hmmm scared...that's a relative term - to which I can only reply 'no' based on the one time in my life when I think I was truly scared. That one time was when I was in the Philippines doing some underwater (via scuba) work checking out seahorse habitat in a marine protected area. There were dynamite fishers at the boundary of the marine protected area. They were blasting the area to kill the fish - its a quick and dirty collection method. I felt these blasts as if they were right beside me. At one point, I thought the fishermen were targeting my bubbles on the surface, as if I was a giant fish below. By the way - dynamite fishing is illegal, yet along with cyanide fishing (using cyanide to paralyze the animals), its still quite popular in some tropical regions."
"Snakes!!!! I hope so!!!"
"Rats!!!!!!!! As long as they are not the ones I see on the Toronto subway system!!"
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