My life starts with a warm greeting from an early sunlight ray that spreads across my half-asleep face. As a student of Davao City National High School, and a fourth year student at that, I wake up at an early hour to attend an early flag ceremony. One of the subjects that we take up in our school involved choosing an AEC project. Along with three other classmates we decided to join the project entitled “Eco Tourists’ Passports” Project. We didn’t exactly know what we were getting into but it mostly told us that we would be collaborating with other students from other schools coming from different parts of Asia and Europe.

We were directed to go to the website. This is a website where other students like us were to communicate between each other and be able to share our thoughts on controversial issues, ecotourism and the like with other students from different parts of Asia and Europe.

We were assigned to 4 different teams namely: Team A, D, G, and I. Due to the fact that we had different time zones, there were only a few times that you could find other students chatting with you. For myself, I met a lot of people even before the live chats were scheduled. I even had private chats with others. It was so cool how you could easily tell others about home and know that you’ve met a lot of friends even though they are so far away from you. Talking to them as if they were just beside you was already natural but teaming up to save the world--that is truly amazing. It makes you feel as though you have become part into a strangers’ world to save Mother Earth and everything else that needs us young generation to be aware of. I didn’t even know before that I am already part of a venture to nurture something that would affect us all.