Hi!

My name is Talia Halleck. I'm from Broomfield, Colorado, which is about 30 minutes outside of both Denver and Boulder. I am a biology major on the pre-med track.

At the beginning of June, I traveled to Costa Rica with some of my high school classmates. We stayed at Pacuare reserve. The humidity was almost unbearable, and there were bugs covering everything. The rooms had no air conditioning, but I had no choice but to cover myself with the thin sheet for fear of being attacked by bugs. During the nights, we walked the beach in complete darkness, which was hard for two reasons. 1) I was exhausted from being up all day, and 2) the sand crumbled beneath my feet on each step and clung to my shoes. I couldn't see anything. It was super fun to see a turtle; she would dig her nest, lay her eggs, and then go back to the ocean. I got to hold a bag of her eggs. The trip brought a lot of new experiences and changes in to my life.