My proper last day. We started at 9am in the small classroom where first I gave my presentation (it seemed to go down well) and then Jo, an Australian, gave one on the pangolin (the scales of which are more trafficked than rhinoceros horn). Finally the staff gave one on animal capture, a practice required when animals need to be moved or medicated. After this we headed off to Alicedale for our weekly afternoon helping in the community. Today we returned to the crèche where I had worked in my first week in order to finish building the slide we had started then. An afternoon of sawing and nailing, concreting and varnishing and the job was done. We threw in a bit of playing with the children too for good measure before departing amid waves from the youngsters.
The rest of the afternoon was spent back at the lodge before it was time to head off for my last night in town. I had sorted a couple of taxi runs to the usual pub and everybody was going. By 8pm we were all there drinking and dancing and enjoying a fun time, almost the only people there for most of the evening. It all turned slightly sour towards the end when some late arriving Afrikaans hunters decided to take exception to two of the young guys in the group and then me when I stepped in to calm things but none of that took the gloss from a great night.
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