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Life finds me on the Isle of Islay, Queen of the Hebrides. I am the warden(管理员) of The Oa Reserve, a 2,1oo-hectate nature reserve and working farm owned by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 

It was always a dream of mine to live in Scotland. The friendly nature of the island communities, the landscape, beautiful coastlines and above all--the wildlife. The amazing wildlife. So, here I am: living and working on the west coast of Scotland in a dream job. But, things weren't always this way.

My school life never really amounted to much. I didn't go on to higher education and my early working life was sloppy (马虎的), at best. Much of this was due to my disinterest in the work I was doing. I worked in factories, shops, warehouses and even a castle. I was always unsettled and uninspired. I never knew how to channel my interest and passion for nature into a paying job. Wildlife and nature had been part of my life since my youth. I remember my childhood with great fondness: I would read bird books, paint fact files for each species and get lost in the natural world.

In 2014, the opportunity I so badly needed finally appeared a paid training with Durham Wildlife Trust. I was given all the basic skills and training for habitat control, wildlife surveys and ground management works. In October 2015, I became the reserve warden for the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT), where I stayed for just under half a decade. As happy as I was, new opportunities dared me to dream even bigger. The time had come to take my next step, to continue to grow within my career. 

So, this is where I am now: living in the middle of a nature reserve, with golden eagles, red deer and hen harriers as neighbors. I feel as if I'm the luckiest man alive.

Teen Ink's Program and Camp Guide for Teens

Teen Ink's list of programs and camps has something for every teenager. If you have attended one of our listed programs, please take a second to write a comment about your experience. You can also write a longer review of any summer program, trip, or activity.

Elite College Tour

Berkeley, CA

Education Unlimited offers two week-long college tours of 10 famous schools in California or along the East Coast with lots of fun and hiking along the way！Our California College Tour includes top schools throughout the state on this well-organized and fun-filled tour. Students arrive in San Francisco and make their way to San Diego. The tour includes housing at business class hotels, and enjoy walking along the way, including Disneyland！Along the way, students take college tours，meet with admission staff（招生员工）, and learn something about their future colleges. Besides, we can stay in a campus dorm（宿舍）so students can get a taste of college life. 

The Oxbow School：Summer Art Camp & Semester Program

Napa, CA

The Oxbow School offers Art Camp programs for teens from schools across the nation and abroad. Oxbow's courses, centered on a self-reflective（反思的）way to art making, offer students rich chances to learn in a good learning environment.

St. V incent College：Challenge Program

Latrobe, PA

This program offers teens the exciting Hunger Games and Elizabethan-era knowledge，in which teens will find fun events, courses, adventurous activities and campus housing for one or two weeks along the West Coast！

"SAI BABA! Sai Baba! Sai Baba! Hahahaha!"

"Today is Shimla's big day! We have a celebrity visiting our city! Hahahaha!" Rani's cheekcs burned with embarrassment and tears stung her eyes as she elbowed her way to the exit through the crowd of teasing boys in the packed school bus. It wasn't the first time she'd been called Sai Baba, after the famous Hindu holy man (印度圣人) she'd seen on TV with his trademark afro (爆炸式卷发) towering over his head.

But this time had to be the worst. Rani jumped off the school bus, angry thoughts hovering inside Rani's head as she marched home in the drizzling rain. Why did her hair have to curl like a giant cotton candy balloon just when she wanted it to behave? Why, why. why, fumed Rani as she turned the back door key.

"Rani, is that you?" Mama called from the family room. Suddenly Rani's cousins, Amit and Sumit, came charging toward her. "How many eggs does Rani have in that nest on her head?" screamed Amit. "Let me get that wig (假发) off Rani's head!" shouted Sumit. Before she could think, Rani had fled out the door and went back up the road she'd walked down minutes before. Halfway up, she slid unseen behind a green curtain of bamboo. Tearing through the wild growth, she made her way down a narrow mud path into a clearing (空地). She threw her schoolbag on the ground and breathed hard.

"I hate my hair!" she cried. Collapsing on her schoolbag, she bitterly remembered the time she'd spent trying to smooth her hair in vain. Before long, she fell into a fitful sleep.

"RANI! RAA-AANI!"

Rani woke up to Mama's calls. She sounded anxious. "I'll never go home, " she promised herself darkly. Mama let Amit and Sumit make fun of me. Papa would never have done that. He would listen to me and stand by my side. The minutes wore on. Alone in her secret hideout, Rani watched the shadow of Mamna get longer and begin to disappear as dusk fell.

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Suddenly, leaves rustling, someone or something was making its way into the clearing. 

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The next moment Papa was sitting beside her. 

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Tea is commonly considered native to Southern China. However, in a garden in Geling village in Metog county in the Tibet autonomous region, the morning air is filled with the sweet aroma of  (fresh) picked tea. 

Tsering Yangdron, a 25-year-old Monba, one of the ethnic groups live in this region, skillfully makes her way through the garden, carefully picking tender tea leaves and tossing them into a bamboo basket tied to her waist. Tea picking (become) a habit for her over the past five years. After she is done, Tsering Yangdron goes back home, where she also runs a homestay. "We have come up with dish of fresh tea buds fried with eggs, " she said. A kilogram of fresh tea buds (sell) for 300 yuan. Once (dry) and processed to make green tea, their value increases significantly.

Geling was once inaccessible as a result of the dense forests, the opening of the Metog highway in 2013 significantly improved connectivity and created opportunities for economic growth. Prior to Huang Jiabin's appointment the village's Party secretary, the tea plantation in Geling was a neglected piece of land.

" (realize) the valley was suitable for growing tea, since 2018, we have improved the management of the tea plantation, introduced advanced planting techniques and provided training for (village), " Huang said.

I was busy and often dealt with customer emails at lunch. Even fifteen minutes in the employee lunchroom seemed a 1 . My company, like many companies, cut costs by not 2  people as they left. The survivors had to take up more 3 . 

For me, this 4 no lunch hour, plus taking work home. I wanted to 5 , but I couldn't until I had another job in hand. 6 in theory, but given how annoyed the extra hours made me feel, it was difficult to convince 7 employers to hire me. I felt trapped. Then a chance 8 with a little girl changed my perspective. The girl was 9 happy, standing in line with her mom at the grocery.

"Good day at school?" I asked.

A nod. 

"What's your favorite subject?"

I smiled at the answer. I 10  when that had been my answer. At that time, no teachers told you what to do at lunch. We just played happily. 

That brief 11  left me wondering: What had happened to lunch?

I knew that by law I was 12  to a lunch break. So I decided to start 13  it. I began to had a walk during the lunch break, which made me refreshed. 

Now I'm still 14 a new position but with less stressed-out urgency than before. You can't always change your 15 , but you can always change your perspective.

How to accept change in life and embrace it positively

Change is the only constant in life. Because whether we want it or not, change is inevitable. It is "change" that makes our life move forward. It's "change" that makes life exciting and worth living. Let's see how to stay strong when we face changes in life.

Accept the situation

Changes happen expectedly and unexpectedly. But there can be changes that happen so suddenly that you might have to experience painful days and have a tough time coping with them. Give yourself sometime to come to terms with it. You may have to go through a mourning period where you have to experience all kinds of emotions. Let the emotions come out and make space for them. It's normal to feel sad and a sense of loss when you think about your old life. Seek support and if possible, take a few days off to find your strength. It's important to learn to deal with the transition phase before you fully start living the new reality.

Embrace the unknown

Most of us are afraid of the unknown and therefore are resistant to change. Even if it is for good, we hesitate to accept change because human beings love structure and routine. But I have often experienced in my life that the "unknown" I feared so much was not that scary at all, once I went through it. And that my worries were something that my mind made up. Truth be told, most of the things I worried about didn't happen anyway. If we are not willing to embrace the unknown, we may miss out on lots of good things that life has kept in store for us.

One of the reasons change is difficult to accept is because of the range of emotions we feel when we confront change. Acknowledge your fears but stop yourself from being tunnel-visioned. Our mind has away of bringing up possible scenarios and fear them. But I have learned over the years that most of the things we fear don't happen and usually, something good comes from change. I recently learned how to embrace emotions from one of my spiritual teachers. She would say, "When you feel emotions, give them a name and acknowledge that they have come to ‘visit'. "

A. Acknowledge your fears. 

B. Look at how far you have come. 

C. The sooner we learn to make peace with this fact, the better. 

D. We fear the unknown because anything can happen to us there. 

E. Expected or planned changes can buy us sometime for preparation. 

F. It's important to embrace your feelings and accept that they are there.

G. People who have experienced the loss of loved ones often talk about how that experience changed them. 

Whether we are sitting down or standing up, still or moving, body posture influences our mood. Several studies have shown this link between physical posture and mood. Others have shown a relationship between our mood and our cognitive (认知的) performance, including memory, reasoning, learning, and the speed of reaction and processing of information. 

So a logical question arises. Can body posture influence our cognitive performance?

Previously, a New Zealand team (University of Auckland) carried out an experiment on posture when we walk, especially in the street. The team had found a very clear influence of our posture on our mood and confidence. It appears that walking with a hunched back, bowed head and motionless arms have a negative influence on our mental state. 

Indeed, the researchers found that the simple act of straightening up, standing up straight, with your head held high, and gazing forward gives us a serious boost of confidence. Not only does our spontaneous posture have a psychological effect, but by correcting it, it is possible to bring about improvement in the long term. 

In this other study, this time carried out by an Austrian team (Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg), researchers observed the same phenomenon, this time in a sitting position. Young adults were invited to participate in tests presented as intended to assess their ability to concentrate. In fact, the researchers had them sit in different postures — from upright to very slumped (消沉) — in order to note their influences on mood and cognition. 

A first observation indicates that "sitting upright" is associated with a better overall mood. It is also found to have a positive influence on the speed of processing information and completing tasks, although the test pass rate does not vary significantly with posture.

Finally, and surprisingly enough, blood pressure is a little more favorable in an upright position. To further complete the list of benefits of sitting upright, we will add that it is widely recommended for protecting the back in case of work that requires sitting for a long time. 

Do you crave chips, pizza, donuts, or cake? These kinds of foods are high in sugar and fats, which make them delicious but not nutritious. A recent analysis suggests that certain ingredients in these types of processed foods can be addictive. 

According to the research published in the journal Addiction, certain foods can trigger the same feelings as drugs. It all comes down to what's happening in the brain. When we feel happy, it's due to a flood of the feel-good chemical dopamine(多巴胺) in the striatum. This region is part of the brain's reward circuit. The striatum gets a dopamine rush when something good happens. Drugs and alcohol can cause a similar high. So, it turns out, can some popular snack foods.

"We're designed to find carbohydrates(碳水化合物) and fats, " says Ashley Gearhardt, a psychologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Evolving such tastes helped our ancestors "overcome famine and make sure we survive, " she explains. That critical role shaped the brain's reward system, making us hard-wired to enjoy carbohydrates and fatty foods.

The problem isn't with all foods containing carbohydrates and fats. Fruit is full of sugar. Oats and other whole grains have lots of carbohydrates. Nuts and meat have fat. But such unprocessed foods—eaten in a form that's similar to how they grew—also contain other nutrients, such as fiber, that slow digestion. That limits how quickly our bodies can absorb the nutrients.

Cookies, candy, soda, fries and other highly processed foods lack those additional nutrients. Such foods contain ingredients that have been highly changed from their natural state. They're chock full of easy-to-absorb carbohydrates and added fats. What's more, they often contain ingredients that don't naturally occur together. When we eat these foods, we get a quick "hit" of carbs and fats that give the brain a boost. That makes us want to eat them again and again.

During my first year in college, I was silent. I was too afraid of saying something wrong. 

I declared a religion major as a sophomore and took a class from Barbara, a young theologian. My mind was split open by a range of new thinkers and writers and by the quality of Barbara's questions, I finally had something to say and the energy to say it. I was a frequent visitor during Barbara's office hours, a rocket of words. She listened and calmly responded, a perfect contrast to my feverish ramblings. I loved what she saw in me, which was a range of abilities I had never seen in myself. In the following years, our relationship gradually deepened, but I was always conscious of a teacher-student dynamic.

This changed fundamentally when I became a parent. I had my son in March 2010, and Barbara was one of the first to congratulate me. When, nine months later, my child was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease, a rare and always terminal illness with no treatment and no cure, she sent me a letter-handwritten on a white legal pad. For the next two and a half years, Barbara wrote me regular, sometimes weekly, letters, remarkable letters that are revealing, loving, and kind. 

The letter written right before my son died, when he was three, was the most personal and perhaps the most profound. "I think he's made you better by opening up the great fire of your love, " she wrote, "with his small but magnificent existence. " I have never in my life read a more deeply comforting sentence, one that spoke to my grandest hopes, my deepest fears, and the only faith that remains to me, which is a belief in chaos. Our love had bloomed and deepened from a guarded mutual respect to a richer, deeper friendship.

Mentors are meant to lead those in their charge into fresh understanding, help them sort and filter new experiences, assist in the project of making sense out of the chaos that is human life. Mentors observe and accompany the darkest despair, the wildest sorrow, and the most unexpected joy.