Hello fellow exchange students,

The end is near, with only three weeks left too near I could say. But no matter how great this year was there is no place like home. So don’t fall into any depression but enjoy the rest of this amazing experience to the last second.

Just recently, two weeks ago, all of the other exchange students from our district in Florida came for a visit and the fun was unbelievable. It is only sad that Mameow could not join us since she headed home already in the beginning of May. Mameow we missed you here! I hope you will read this report and know that we will never forget you! We could not say goodbye to you as good as we could to the others because you did not share this last adventure with us. I just came to realize that I will probably never see many of you again, that all we did together will end up to be a memory and the last thing I know about you all is how you walked through the gate in the Freeport Airport leaving Enrico and me behind, everybody with a sad face on knowing that this was it, the last thing we would share as a group. But therefore this last thing ended it good.

You all, including Roy and another friendly chaperone whose name I just can’t remember but who did an awesome job and sorry for forgetting your name, I am simply bad in remembering names, came on Thursday afternoon and then on Thursday night we had a big party at my house. Many of the Rotarians from our Lucaya Club were here with their wives and husbands, some of Enrico’s and my personal friends and us. We had a great time and Theresa, my host dad’s girlfriend, performed traditional Bahamian dances for us. The next day we went to Peterson’s Cay, a national park, where we chilled out and had scorched conch, fresh raw conch in lime juice with peppers, onions and tomatoes. My host dad David is also a local fisherman and he showed us how to open a conch, what to cut of and what is eatable. He gave Matteo and Nico the "Pissel" which is the sperm and/or urea tube but they didn’t know what they had. Matteo chewed on it because it was too long for him to just swallow and this gave him the rest, he could not eat it, he had to spit it out again. The funniest was Nico though, he successfully swallowed it but when I told him what he just had you should have seen his face. It got one of those expressions on it that says: "Oh my god what have I just done, I totally regret doing that", it was hilarious. The next day we showed them Port Lucaya and had dinner at Pisces. Pisces is a good seafood and especially Pizza place and our counselor Steven was so nice to pay for all of us. Thanks Steven.

The next morning we went to the dolphin experience where we could stand in the water, pet the dolphins and they were performing various tricks. IT WAS AMAZING. I thought Dolphins would feel slimy and slippery but their skin is rather simply smooth and they are so intelligent. Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures of that except the one that the other chaperone bought for us all from the Dolphin center.

Later this evening we went down to Port Lucaya once again to party which worked out pretty well, we had a lot of fun.

But on the next day we already had to say farewell and now I begin to understand what it really means to come close to the end of my year and to have to say goodbye to so many good friends. I enjoyed all the thing we did together may the rest of your life be successful and I hope we will meet again.

Max