The ocean has always played a significant role in my life. It is both peaceful and powerful, not to mention beautiful. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to enjoy the ocean here because the water is quite cold. Nevertheless, I love everything related to the ocean; I find learning about marine life fascinating. My favourite animals, such as turtles, whale sharks and stingrays, also live in the ocean. I think sharks and sharks are so beautiful but misunderstood, more specifically sharks because of all the movies made about them and stingrays are made out to be animals that only care about stinging you just because the word “sting” is in their name. Even just sitting on the beach and watching the waves gives me endless joy. Especially when you can see whales playing in the distance which isn’t rare here. I grew up around the ocean due to my family travelling a lot so perhaps that’s why I have so much love for it. I wish I got to swim in it more but it makes it all the more exciting when I swim again. It’s weird because I am super scared of the lake since it’s so murky and I’m always scared of something grabbing me from underneath yet I feel so safe in the ocean and am never nervous about a shark or anything else grabbing me.