This is a podcast for raising people's awareness of protecting albatrosses. I started with the line "I shot the albatross" which was from the poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as a central theme of the podcast. I started depicting an imaginary scene of waking up in an old house and meeting an albatross. I then embarked on an adventure of living the whole year with the albatross and I knew more about their lifestyles. Suddenly, human civilization played a role in my story. They have killed thousands and thousands of albatrosses with plastics, pollution, and global warming. The cruel reality was that I realized I was one of "them". I also used a lot of plastics and unrecyclable materials each year which indirectly attributed to many albatross death. Therefore, in literal meaning, I "did" shot the albatross. In the end, I called people to protect the environment and protect the albatross.

Xia (Emily) Meng