Ants!

The picture above shows the storage room for all of Dolly's "stuff" at the school. It really needs shelves and some organizing.

This is the view from the main porch at the school. The lighter blue strip in the distance is water, and the farthest dark strip of mountains are a peninsula. The picture below shows Eduardo, the groundskeeper and maintenance man. The school does not own a mower, so he is cutting the grass with a weed whacker. Took him all afternoon. The school owns 106 acres of land which it purchased from the Nature Conservancy for a very good price. the land came with certain easements that require the school to reforest much of the cleared land and that prevent the school from selling any part of the land to a for-profit enterprise.

Dolly (below, right) and a group of students stand at a lookout at the Children's Forest, a HUGE area of the rain forest that was purchased with donations from children all over the world. The area is easily 20 times as large as the Monteverde Reserve.