Semester 2

We're back in St. Maarten. I know its been a while since I posted. That being said this will be an extra long post because we have lots of pictures. Our friends, Jana and Kyle, on their honeymoon came and visited us and we got to act like tourist once again. We went zip lining at the highest point in St. Maarten. Its actually pretty cool. There is a temperate rain forest in the hills and it gets about 1500 feet above sea level. Right as we started the course, which took almost two hours, it downpoured on us. It made walking across these tight rope bridges even more
interesting.



The next day we chartered a boat to Prickly Pear island, an island off the
coast of Anguilla (British West Indies). Normally (during high season) the beach is filled with tourist. However, since it was Sunday, cloudy and on low season we were the only ones on the beach. We were the only ones on the island. The snorkeling was amazing. It was like something on the Discovery Channel. We dove among this reef with a school of thousands of fish circling us and Barracuda and sea birds all around us trying to pick off straglers.

The friends are now gone and it back to reality. Julia went back to work and I went back to school. The material seems to be pretty easy right now, just there is alot of it.
Also today we got the inevitable letter.....Tuition.....get this...dun dun dun....is going UP. Well I definitely expected it to go up, but it still hurts. The hike adds about 10k to the final sum after 9.5 semesters of school.
But things could be worse. I could be going to one of the schools in the Caribbean (and there are a lot of them) that doesn't have U.S. federal loans. Students at those schools can't even get loans.
Finally, I celebrated my birthday....on a plane. It was fine with me. We went out to eat with our friends when we got here....and I'm a year closer to 30.