The Ecology of the Black Sea

Just when I thought that nothing would surprise me I
find myself quite astonished. Today at "teacher tea"
my director explained an epiphany that she had
yesterday.
"Em-ee-lee! You will give a presentation about the
ecology of the Black Sea to guests from the Rayon!"
"Uhhhhh…."
"I will write it for you and you will present it in
Russian!" (She really does speak in exclamation marks
when speaking to me. And uses non-necessary miming.
I know the word for sea by now!)
"But I don't know anything about the ecology of the
Black Sea."
"I will write it! You just have to read it! Ira will
help!"
"If you are going to write it why don't you just read
it?"
"No! That's not the point!"
What is the point? Enna later explained that some
people from the rayon are interested in what I am
doing in my village so the Director decided that I
would give a presentation about the ecology of the
Black Sea.
Is this random to anyone else? Does the director
think that I sit in my office and think about the
ecology of the Black Sea all day? And how is that a
demonstration of what I do in the village? On a scale
of one to ten the answer to these questions measure in
the Macguiver-sphere.
I'm doing my best to get out of this but have been
thwarted to this point. Even Enna agrees with this
mind-boggling plan. I did comment on the amount of
garbage, especially bottles, by the sea. I walked
down there about two weeks ago and all I could see was
bottles. I found out later that most of them are
filled with messages, no doubt tossed out to sea by
drunk tourists in the summer. Somehow I doubt my
comments led to ecology, but I really never know for
sure here.
If I do have to do this I plan on making the best of
it. I'll mention the number of dolphins that have
choked on plastic bags and story about that really
tall guy in Asia that utilized the length of his arms
to reach down a dolphins throat and fetch the bag that
had blocked its air pipe. (True story – I'm not
creative enough to make that up.) Did anyone notice
that beached whale last week? And what about the
state of the sea weed?! Is any actually growing
anymore or is it all being washed ashore? Maybe I'll
put together a team of environmental activists that
will help me write back to all of those drunken
tourists throwing bottles into the sea. We'll write
about the effect of pollution and litter and the
consequences it has on the Ecology of the Black Sea.
Seize the day, Emily.

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