Hello! Welcome to my blog. I am Chloe Quek Zi Ru, a Year One student studying Environmental Studies at National University of Singapore. I love how fascinating Mother Nature is. The world has so much to offer, some sights that come to mind are the Northern Lights, black beaches in Iceland and the roaring waterfalls found in Bali. In my teenage days back in secondary school, my Geography teacher would always share her experiences from her travels all over the world. I was always intrigued by her stories and dreamed of travelling to those beautiful geographic locations. I longed to see with my two eyes and experience these locations with my 5 senses. When I grew older, I realised this chance could be mine during the 8 month break between Junior College and University. This became my main source of motivation during Junior College, no matter how tired I was I would persevere on and study. In the end, the pandemic struck and foiled my long-term plans of seeing the world. Instead of seeing flora and fauna before my eyes, I saw it through my small 13 inch MacBook screen. No words can express how devastated and disappointed I was during the circuit breaker period.
When I was given instructions to make a blog and find a theme, I was dumbfounded. Unlike most of my course mates, I didn’t have noble ambitions or a strong passion to save Mother Earth that led me to taking this course. I honestly took Environmental Studies due to my love for how lovely the world is. What could I write about? Then I realised, Why not on sustainable tourism? I dearly miss travelling. Despite the lack of opportunity to travel and explore the world with my friends and family, this blog gives me a chance to travel virtually to places I had on my bucket list by learning more about them. There are so many beautiful locations in the world that I have yet to explore and learn about. Many of these locations are not only beautiful but can also reduce the impacts of climate change. In my blog, I will be attempting to discuss various beautiful landmarks and how their efforts help in the fight against global warming and environmental degradation.
If you have read until here, thank you and I hope you will be back for my next blog post. Until then, let’s keep travelling the world safely through our laptop screens!