The night before was very inspirational. Our group engaged in very creative conversation about how we could achieve the highest quality filming and interviews the next day! We organized everyone into crews: interviews, sound, and B roll; we planned some shots and discussed possible solutions to potential problems. The next day we visited the Centro de Interpretación, Interpretation Center of the Mangle association, a circular open building designed for meeting and for tourists. Murals of turtles, crabs and mangrove forest adorned the circle. We started the interviews in the Center, and what Hispano had proposed turned out great, with a sound person, microphone person, camera man and interviewer each doing their job; my role was sound woman. During the day my experience in the mangrove was an experience of sound. I changed from my habitual role of picture taking to one in which my attention was fully focused on capturing the surrounding environment through my ears. The interviewees today were young tourist guides, artisans and leaders that work for the conservation of the manglar, the mangrove forest. Their personal stories and motivations were very inspirational, as my dream is to contribute to the conservation of nature. The mangrove we visited is actively being restored using a new method called REM (Ecological Mangrove Restoration). The project we visited started in 2010, and the results are now visible, with some adult trees forming the forest and many young trees, “candelitas”, forming a tapestry in the mangrove soil. The soil was full of holes where we saw hundreds of violinista and chichimeca crabs peeking through. The open water channels gave me the sensation of fluidity among the entangled mangrove; the sunlit reflection of the roots in the water invited me to imagine the mangrove trees' seeds traveling free. Exiting the mangrove, we walked, capturing the diversity of environmental sounds—birds, insects, our footsteps. Walking and listening to this diversity, I imagined the big efforts of all the people that had participated in this ecological restoration project, and I was marveled to see the results of a community working in such a united way for the environment. This filled me with energy and deep happiness. -Carolina Pardo