Postcard From Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
There is a tourist attraction in Isalo National Park called "The Window of Isalo." It's basically a natural 'window' carved into the rock from which one can view the sunset. Well, this isn't a picture of that. Instead, I was captivated not by the blinding light shining through the rock, but the way the last rays of the sun reflected off the surroundings. It was that brief moment before the sun sets when everything is illuminated in the most breathtaking way. I and the other students split off to find our own spaces in the rock formations, to take photographs, journal, or simply to be lost in our thoughts. Behind us, a mob of tourists squabbled to take pictures of light through the window. Before us was a golden grassland dotted with a few trees and mountains on the horizon. Around us was the banded sandstone all aglow. It was like living in a painting. And for that moment, we forgot everything but the present, and sat there absorbing it all: the warmth, the winds... Like the rocks in the sun.
-Tiffany Shao
Credit: Tiffany Shao
Major: Biology
