I also spend a lot of my free time at my church, and one of the best things about living on campus is that I get to be friends with college students and get to know people who are not Gatton students. I love that I have been able to stay involved with the clubs/hobbies that I am truly interested in. I have always loved singing with my friends, so I created a female A Cappella group at Gatton and we sang at Acapalooza, which is an A Cappella concert for high school and college groups in the Bowling Green area. I get to go back to my home high school and sing with the choirs there. I have always been really involved in choir and I didn’t want to lose that when I came to Gatton, so I have been enrolled in a choir class every semester and plan to continue that when I go to real college. I have really broad interests, so I kind of want to be a doctor or do medical research, but I also kind of want to be an environmental scientist, and I might just pack up and move to Costa Rica and spend all day running around catching butterflies (I did butterfly research when I studied abroad during winter term and I loved it). Coming to Gatton from Warren County is a unique experience because I was already familiar with campus when I came, I still get to spend a lot of time with my family, and I can easily visit my home school to participate in clubs and see my friends. I have lived in Bowing Green my whole life, and I attended Bowling Green High School for my freshman and sophomore years of high school. Hey guys! I am Veronica Johnson, and I am a senior this year. It opened my eyes to the possibility of a career that I had never considered before. Studying abroad in Costa Rica probably changed the course of my life because it gave me the opportunity to find something that I love doing. I became passionate about the environment and very interested in studying Biodiversity and Environment. We would step outside our cabins only to see a family of Capuchin monkeys swinging through the trees. At Poor Man’s Paradise, I got to go snorkeling where I saw whole schools of fish swimming together, tiny jellyfish, and even a sea turtle. The beauty of these butterflies is unparalleled by those we have in Kentucky. I loved spending my days wandering the rainforest looking for butterflies.
At the Goldring-Gund Field Station, I got to hold baby leatherback sea turtles as soon as they hatched from their nest and release them into the ocean in the hopes that they will grow to maturity and return to the same beach to make their own nest.Īt Cloudbridge Nature Reserve, I got to do research on butterfly diversity. Every location housed a new set of thrills. That was the understatement of a lifetime. I applied to the Costa Rica trip because I thought that I would enjoy traveling around and taking a Biodiversity course. At this point, I already knew that I wanted to go to Gatton, but this was the icing on the cake. On my Interview Day, the Gatton staff and some current students lead a panel about coursework and Study Abroad at the Academy.
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