Farewell heliconias...

We were now into our last few days working at the reserve. The weather had taken a turn for the worst and was now almost continually torrential rain, as such we headed to the reserves tree nursery (which was thankfully undercover).

Preparing grow bags


A single mornings work


It was almost time for us to move on from Heliconias, but not before the volunteers took on the lodge locals in a 5aside football tournament. It was actually mixed teams and me, Henry and George more than held our own, though George did almost collapse at one stage haha.

Deadlock penalty shoot out... more tense than the worldcup


And with that it was our final day with the kids at the summer camp. In the morning it was another english class and a final chance for the children to finish colouring in their english workbooks before their efforts would be judged in the competition. A few children were absent so George took it upon himself to try and win the competition for one of them...

So much concentration


Some internatitional quality colouring in... how he didn't win I'll never know?... I think it might have been fixed...


There were a number of characters at the summer camp, Sergio being one of them. On the last morning of the camp he came and gave me and George a little material bracelet he had made himself for us.

Sergio throwing down some mad gang-signs

Another little character was Valerie, she kept me, George and Laura entertained throughout the camp... the photo below shows me, George and Valerie having a face pulling competition. I think you'll all agree I won.

Funny faces

Finally before we went down to the sportshall to meet the childrens parents we had a giant group photo of all the children and helpers from the summer camp.

Summer camp crew

And almost suddenly our time volunteering at Heliconias was complete. The girls had decided to stay in Bijagua for the weekend and then travel on to our second volunteer placement in Romelia on the Monday morning. Me and George had decided however to travel down to Manuel Antonio to meet the other volunteers for another weekend away.