Siying Chen was born in Hefei, China and she spent eighteen happy years there. She is a second-year undergraduate student majoring in Biochemistry, and wants to get into medical school. She enjoys playing with all kinds of animals in her spare time, and she wishes to have a dog one day. She also loves watching lives in different parts of the world. She is now learning Spanish for her Costa Rica volunteering trip, but she can’t do flat or roll.