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09/11/2009
The Bermuda Exchange Program
A few weeks ago, Megan (our head intern) traveled to Bermuda through the Bermuda Exchange program for nine days. Before she left on August 2nd, I was given the opportunity to interview her. The Learning through Loggerheads program and the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum, and Zoo worked together to create the Bermuda Exchange. Megan applied to and was accepted by this wonderful program.
Megan decided to apply, not only because she felt it would be interesting to learn about another kind of sea turtle, but to also see how the program in Bermuda differs from Learning through Loggerheads. When asked what she thought might be a similarity between the two programs, Megan replied, “They both have to do with conserving sea turtles and working with young adults”. However, the main difference between the two is, perhaps, the fact that, in Bermuda, they deal with younger turtles (the juvenile greens that they catch), whereas we work with the adult nesting females here in South Carolina.
In addition to working with a new kind of turtle, Megan was also looking forward to meeting new people. She felt that those two things combined would be one of the most rewarding aspects about this opportunity. Although she felt nervous about being somewhere unfamiliar, far from home, she was very much looking forward to seeing new places and doing new things. I haven’t had a chance to communicate with Megan since her return, but I am looking forward to hearing about the Bermuda Exchange program, from her point of view, because I know it must have been a very fantastic and rewarding opportunity.
You can read more about it at this link: http://ltlonline.org/students-article.cfm?ArticleID=2
This is the link to the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum, and Zoo website: http://www.bamz.org/
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