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If I was to describe Tuvalu, I'll try to explain it in my own way.
So imagine soft westerly winds.
Imagine very calming waves.
Imagine salt water splashing to your cheeks.
Lily Teifa is telling me about her home, Tuvalu.
It's a nation made up of nine main islands and over 100 tiny atolls and islets scattered across a vast stretch of ocean in the South Pacific.
Imagine children playing marbles right next to you.
Imagine your cousins driving past you and calling out talafa, Lily.
And imagine diving down into the ocean, seeing the colorful creatures beneath the sea, as if you're breathing beauty into your lungs.
But that beautiful ocean is encroaching.
The land is low lying.
No point in Tuvalu is higher than four and a half meters above sea level.
And the country has made headlines around the world in recent years because this land, it might not exist for much longer.
Climate change and sea level rise are deadly and existential threats to Tuvalu and low lying atoll countries.
We are sinking, but so is everyone else.
Analysis by the United nations and NASA has found that much of Tuvalu's land area will be below the average high tide by 2050.