{"id":1608,"date":"2015-02-17T15:56:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T20:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2021-08-05T14:21:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T18:21:05","slug":"mdc-alum-nikolas-wong-talks-inspiration-for-his-latest-book-donates-half-of-his-proceeds-to-educational-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/mdc-alum-nikolas-wong-talks-inspiration-for-his-latest-book-donates-half-of-his-proceeds-to-educational-program\/","title":{"rendered":"MDC Alum Talks Inspiration For His Latest Book, Donates Half Of His Proceeds To Educational Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes, it is the smallest things that end up changing our lives. For Miami Dade College alum Nikolas Wong, it was his friend asking him for his help to \u201csave the endangered Beluga whales.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since graduating from the University of Florida in 2014, Wong went in search of inspiration amongst the despair that comes with job-hunting. What he didn\u2019t foresee, is that it would come in the form of nature. That precise moment came when one of his closest friends encouraged him to get more involved with the environment, and eventually led to him becoming a naturalist trainee, and release his latest work: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Field Journal of a Naturalist Trainee.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His previous work, titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Coffee House<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2013), was a collection of short stories centered on having coffee with friends. The transition from that to this field journal was a genuine and natural one for Wong, \u201cI thought: I\u2019m inspired, let\u2019s do this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Coffee House<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Wong has graduated and been on several book tours. He greatly helped out at the training center, unfortunately he didn\u2019t finish his training. That\u2019s why this field journal exists, as an embodiment of all he learned. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI didn\u2019t want to throw any of my knowledge away,\u201d Wong said. \u201cThere were a lot of things I learned, and that\u2019s everything I put into this book.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wong hopes to go back and train some more. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His journey to the Biscayne Nature Center began soon after his graduation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI couldn\u2019t find a job because it was really hard for me to find something to start excelling in my career path,\u201d Wong said. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not long after that push from his friend who was interested in Beluga whales, he contacted program director Claudia Succar Ferr\u00e9, a friend of his cousin\u2019s. Next thing he knew, he was regularly helping out at the Nature Center. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A naturalist is in charge of taking a group of students on a field trip, and teach them about the creatures there. A trainee, then, is responsible for shadowing these naturalists and learning what they are doing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou\u2019re supposed to memorize all of it even though you may not have a background in it,\u201d Wong said. \u201cYou\u2019re expected to learn these things, so I kept a lot of field journals, which became this book. This was the process of me learning and remembering everything.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To promote his field journal, Wong headed to the Everglades, as a means to pay homage to Marjory Stoneman Douglas, known as an advocate for its conservation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBeing there helped me learn a little bit more of what she was really trying to preserve,\u201d Wong said. \u201cIn a way I was going back to the source of all that I learned.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center is a nonprofit organization, whose main focus is to promote eco-literacy and environmental education. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Coffee House<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, gave half of its proceeds to the American Cancer Society, as a dedication to Wong\u2019s aunt who passed away from cancer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Field Journal of a Naturalist Trainee<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Amazon.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, it is the smallest things that end up changing our lives. 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