Today is the day – exam day! They have all been working very hard for this day, often staying up late and getting up early to study. Everyone took their work this week very seriously, and they were all eager to see how they would do.

The exam took place in the morning, and everyone was nervous. They spread out across the hotel grounds, supervised by their habitat leaders, and spent the next 90 minutes working on their exam. The first portion of the test is closed book and the second portion is open, where they can use their lab book and all of the information they have been filling out for the past week.

At the end of the test, the students had time off for the rest of the afternoon and many of them spent their time hanging out at the pool, soaking in the last rays of the Florida sun before returning home tomorrow.

For dinner, we loaded the entire group, students and staff, and headed to Sombrero Beach in Marathon for a pizza party. While we were there, a "mystery pirate" came up to us on the sandy beach! The students enjoyed talking and taking selfies with him and he even joined in on our group photos! Then, this pirate proceeded to have us sit down and have a talk with us on the good news of salvation, and comparing our pardon from sin, offered to us freely through Jesus, to the pirates’ pardon from the king. It was a shame that Michael had to miss it…

We let the students swim for a while in the ocean after the talk with the pirate before loading them up in the vans to head back to the hotel. Once we returned, we gathered everyone in a circle to talk about how they were impacted on this trip and what their highlights were. It was a wonderful evening of sharing and bonding before our goodbyes tomorrow. So many of them seem to have had the best time and we all have become quite close. Goodbye tomorrow will be quite hard.