A Albatross wings are built for dynamic soaring and can cover as much as 3000 miles per week.
L Life-long partnerships are created between albatrosses.
B By mistake, albatrosses can ingest plastic pollution while foraging in the water.
A Albatrosses are found in the Southern Hemisphere, the North Pacific Ocean, and along the west coast of North America.
T The albatross is a metaphor for a burden that feels like a curse, but historically, it was also a symbol of good luck to sailors.
R Relationships between albatrosses can be female-to-female.
O Only returning to its breeding island every year or two, most of an albatross’s life is spent at sea.
S Soaring takes up at least 85% of an aslbatross’s flight compared to time spent flapping.
S Salt glands allow albatrosses to digest the ocean water.

Bile forms in my mouth. To walk down the street towards the grocery store becomes an exhaustion, not for the length I have to walk, but I have to think of how my feet balance and move, how straight my back is, does my face look alright. I merge myself, not knowing if it is the right one, hoping the stranger that will see me for three seconds will not take offense to it. And after that is done, I wonder if I somehow managed to screw up. If this stranger has walked away with an awful opinion of me. When I get to the store, I am already in an awful mood, because no matter how many attempts I have made in this routine, I still remain fearful of myself among the sea of strangers. I do not think I was born this way, but I do not know what caused me to become like this.