Manjula goes blogging...

Now, I grew up in a culture where getting a tan isn’t fashionable - no one wants to get any darker! However, working with turtles it is unavoidable.….It had been a long, tiring day on the Tortuguero beach and even though it wasn’t completely dark, I was preparing to turn in for the night. I stood in the room brushing my teeth sleepily, the lights were not on, the door to the bathroom was open….I glanced over and found a set of white teeth smiling back at me from the mirror - what a shock! Then I realized that it was only my reflection - I had been burnt so deep by the Tortuguero sun that in the fading light most of me was invisible in the mirror…