Romelia

I haven't had an entry for a while so I'm sure a lot has happened! Well we've been really loving it here near Montezuma at the Volunteer project Romelia. We have been doing tons of work, spending hours working at the hatchery. Me and Cass alone have probably filled 150 sand bags and carried them and made a wall to guard the hatchery from high tides. We have spent hours shoveling sand. On top of that there are night patrols, cleaning and making trails because this area is going to be a national park although it isn't yet and they will need trails. So we are clearing the trails picking up garbage and building bridges. But there are many more odd jobs on top of that since the place has only been open for about 4 months so they are still fixing it up for future volunteers. I wish I could post pictures because the location is absolutely beautiful!
It was really fun the first week because it was an intimate group of people and some characters! In the last like 3 days we've had 3 germans show up, a girl from poland, a boy from ireland, 2 girls from the UK and 3 Canadians last night so it is packed now. It was frustrating because me Cassidy and the Canadian Kelsey had been here for a while longer and didn't have much help, were working hours a day in the hatchery by ourselves, and some of the people that just showed up seem really lazy. Anywho for the most part they are cool people but luckily none are staying long so we'll finish the hatchery and then it'll be back down to only a few of us which will be nice.
We absolutely LOVE our coffee...coffee breaks all of the time and nothing makes us happier. We have a full time volunteer cook now so that is nice...and he is quite a character. Oh and after a really tough day at the hatchery on tuesday (me cass and kelsey worked the hatchery from 5am to 7am, 9 to 12 and then 2 to 5 with minimal occassional help) the boys challenged us to a soccer game on the beach and we won 5 to 4. It was SO much fun...ridiculous. THe boys actually didn't want it to be girls vs boys because they thought it wouldn't be fun. They said we would try it for 2 minutes and then if we never touched the ball they would switch up the teams... so it was rather funny when we beat them. Needless to say cass and I scored all 5 goals. haha
Last sunday (backtracking a bit) Cass and I had the day off and took a boat ride from montezuma to tortuga island (about and hour boat ride) where we got to snorkel, lay on a pretty sweet beach, free lunch and drinks so it was a really nice day. Snorkeling wasn't that amazing but it was still fun. We might some guys from Atlanta and had a good seinfeld quiz session on the boat ride back (which was scary by the way cuz we were in a little boat and the waves were ridiculous). Last thing...we plan to take tomorrow and sunday off and take a dollar bus ride to Santa Teresa and stay there a night so that should be fun. I'm sure I could say more haha but i think this novel is long enough. If anyone wants a post card leave your address and i'll send one (of course no need for mom and dad)
Love you all, Pura Vida!!!

Hayley