In the meantime..

I write a lot about the trips, but there are some people who already asked me what I do in the meantime...
You could already read earlier in my blog that I graduated in november.

Graduation year 2011-2012

I am an exchange student, this is different from other students. I don't think there are many students who do first the last part of the schoolyear, receive their diploma and graduate to start in februari with another class the first part of the graduation year..? Well..., that is how I did it. You can see here the class I started with in februari.

Graduation year 2012-2013

I already had my diploma, so I searched for some other things to do. I did a course business management for three weeks. 

I also did a course where I learned a little more about the oil industry and the problems around it. The island where I live is a rich source of oil. Oil means money, but the island is a natural reserve. The people of San Andres don't want that the oil industry destroys this reputation. 

This problem goes together with the problem between Nicaragua and Colombia. A little history... if you look at the map, you can see that San Andres is closer to Nicaragua than it is to Colombia.

The part of the ocean of San Andres is very big, it reaches almost until the coast of Nicaragua. Nicaragua wants this part of the ocean to become part of Nicaragua. I already said, San Andres has oil, oil means money and money is good for the economy, I don't think I have to make a picture with this one..

I already mentioned in one of my blogs that San Andres has the third biggest coral reef in the world. I think that's a pretty good reason to leave the oil where it is so it can't destroy this. I supported the people of San Andres because I fell in love with this beautiful underwater world. That's how we come to the third course I did, my dive certification. 

I met spongebob in real life, I became friends with lionfishes (lionfishes are one of the most beautiful fishes, but also kind of dangerous), I visited one of the pirates their sunken ship, barracudas, waterspiders, little fish, big fish, small corals, big ones,...  

short: an amazing world that is for a lot of people still unknown.

There are also some exchange students who visited me here in San Andres, one of the things we did was visiting Providencia. More of that in my next blog. 

Greetings from a beautiful place somewhere in the Caribbean.