Blogs from Hikkaduwa, Southern Province, Sri Lanka, Asia - page 5

So it's been about two/three weeks since I last updated everyone, but thats not always a bad thing. As this time I've just been really busy and havin a great time since I last wrote. After leaving Hampi I slowly started to feel better as my boddy/mind recovered from the exhausting india trip I put myself through(I was way way to ambitious and ended up nearly destroying the india section of the trip). Today I paid my first weekly room/food bill here in Hikkadewa and will probably be here at least another few days. I'm thinking of moving down the island a little farther to try and find a less crowded break but we'll see what happens. Most people seem to come and just get stuck here in Hikkadewa, which might end up happening to me ... read more

Once again I have been plagued by a problem in Sri Lanka. This time it is the squits and sickness and being ill in this climate sapped my energy and almost killed my enthusiasm. Thankfully the anti-biotics are now working, but the prescription I got from the hospital in Galle needed scrutiny and I finally followed the Lonely Planet guidebook recommendations on medication. The Rosie May charity group arrived at the weekend and had another attempt to persuade their builder to finish off their project. We were all amazed when he announced that he could finish it in 3 weeks, after he had already delayed a few times totaling 5 months! Finally he gave a more realistic end of next January completion date and now additional labourers have appeared from his other jobs. Progress is now ... read more

Well i have left India, and feel all together very strange about it. I definantly did not have enough time to do and see everything that i wanted to see, and even on my last night when i was in Madrass i was walking arounf this huge crazy city and was in some kind of amazment about the whole thing/place...then a tuk tuk nearly ran me over and i had to jump back into reality... i was watching the Indian news on that night and it was focusing these 2 couples who had been court kissing in public, by the police and they had been forced that night to get married!!! I just can not get my head around it all, and i really do not think that i get will. You may learn to get ... read more

I took my first full English lesson last Friday and just about kept the little darling’s engaged for the full hour. We tried to learn a song (although they are trained to shout in a Victorian style) and then we played bingo on cards I made from a cut-up calendar. I plan to take them for a final lesson next Friday and hopefully they will see that learning can actually be fun. After my first full week at the school I have established my realistic goals for my time here, but it is a real push to get everything done for the end of term celebration. Get all 15 currently used computers working, including buying and installing memory to allow installation of Windows XP on all the machines. Also spend some of the money that I ... read more