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Hambantota Slideshow
Hambantota
Travel Blogs from Hambantota, Sri Lanka
It's all a little fishy....
This is a top pick! ... ! It is at times like these that I'm sure people are wondering if it was wise allowing me to be let loose on the kids of Sri Lanka! Anyway there was fits of laughter so all enjoyed - as they say back home, it was the best craic! Preschool again ...
The one without a title
This is a top pick! Today Mark and I were tasked with being in charge of the Preschool's entertainment from start to finish. When this has happened before, they usually told me 5mins before the class was due to start but this time we were told yesterday. We did everything ...
Practice makes perfect...or does it?
This is a top pick! Today the Preschoolers spent almost 2hours trying to prefect their band playing for the opening! They all have very good rhythm and can keep the beat, but when it comes to walking and playing, it's disastrous! They are in lines of 3, but they all can't ...
They could nearly be counted on 1 hand
This is a top pick! ... visit us so he said he'd call in tomorrow instead. That means we have a task for tomorrow-to find out how to make a cup of Sri Lankan tea! It's not a case of putting a teabag in a teapot and adding water, they use tea leaves, powdered milk and about half ...
Fruit salad
This is a top pick! ... means the mad afternoon of games, games and more games! Today the games "duck duck goose" and "fruit salad" were introduced to Sri Lanka. They could have played them for hours. When you have 35 kids running about, 15minutes is quite enough per ...
The wheels on the bus
This is a top pick! Today I started to teach the preschoolers "The wheels on the bus". It's amazing how quickly the younger ones pick things up - I've been here 6weeks and can just about count to 5 and say about 10 words which are mostly food! If you compare that with them, ...
A full house
This is a top pick! Yesterday the preschoolers spent most of the morning in the new classroom practicing for the opening. This involved doing the Hokey Pokey at least 5times and practicing their sinhala song. By next week they should be experts! Today they had a short ...
Roadtrip to Kataragama
This is a top pick! Last night we all loaded up a van and headed to a festival in Kataragama (about 40kims outside Hambantota). There aout 9\10 of us altogether with 3 children, what seemed like 50litres of water and enough food to feed the whole of Hambantota ...
Shrek3!!
This is a top pick! Ronalli came down this morning and is staying til tomorow afternoon. it's always good to have another person around. Tomorrow afternoon she is meeting with a lady from USA who is a child pschologist. She is very interested in training the teachers on how ...
Where is Banda?
This is a top pick! ... to tell the story! Half an hour before the Afterschoolers, we were informed that we were teaching 2 45 minute classes. Again, in Sri Lanka preparation is key! So after deliberation we had a brain wave and decided that writing on the wall with chalk would ...
The day the snake came to for breakfast
This is a top pick! ... this will be given the go ahead. renalli had now headed back home to columbo so it's just gordon and i ready to take on sri lanka! it as good having her around. on the plis side she'll be down every frw weeks. tomorrow the school is closed as it's ...
100 days
This is a top pick! ... on the seats and others standing on kitchen chairs with the table nearly collapsing still makes me chuckle! The best thing about Sri Lanka in general is the people. I've yet to meet an unfriendly Sri Lankan or anyone who wouldn't bend over ...
Wildlife
This is a top pick! ... the house and was comteplating booking my flight back to Belfast! I liked it when I was indenial and believed that there are no rodents in Sri Lanka, but now i've seen one (albeit dead), that means there has to be at least one more about. I set on the ...
Stig of the dump
This is a top pick! So how do you spend a Saturday afternoon in Hambantota? You go to the local rubbish dump! No we haven't gone insane, the wild elephants come to feed from the dump, so we thought we would see if we could catch a glimpse of them. We managed to see 2. Now on ...
Let the music begin!
This is a top pick! My purpose here has nearly been fulfilled because today, while singing "the wheels on the bus" with the preschool children, there was a definite Belfast twang when they said "horn"! That's what I call success! A new boy started today as well - always ...
Stay away from the contagious one!
This is a top pick! Yesterday the band was practicing, but this time only for 30mins. After that it was time to play. In the morning, a few girls come and learn to use a sewing machine as they don't go to school. This usually means now that we spend some of the morning ...
Happy Children's day!
This is a top pick! ... place overlooking the sea. After an initial rainstorm, they all got out and ran about. Most surreal moment for me was me dancing Sri Lankan style, with Namil, on top of a hill, to ringtones on my phone! You couldn't write the script! Also they all ...
4kgs of chocolate cake please!
This is a top pick! ... we please pay them some money - stones and leaves to you and I. We had a great time being driven back and forth between Sri Lanka and England on possibly the safest and most comfortable ride we’ve ever had on Sri Lankan public transport! If only ...
Full moon
This is a top pick! ... planning permission is granted. the also need to get a survey done first so they can establish exactly where the boundaries are. hopefully there will be time on saturday to head out somehere and see a bit more of sri lanka. that's really all for ...
Candyfloss, cows and cobras
This is a top pick! ... and when i asked them what they were going to do with it, they said release it. i personally would have gone for the other option of a hammar to the head! so that's just another sunday in sri lanka. i can't see anything else happening today......i ...
"T.W.P"
This is a top pick! ... "Little Adams Peak". It is named after its bigger brother “Adam’s Peak”, which is the most sacred mountain in Sri Lanka as all the religions have a story about it, for example Buddhists believe the footprint at the top is the footprint ...
It's not as easy as ABC
This is a top pick! Yesterday the afterschoolers had to draw a happy memory. There were some very good drawings-better than any I could have attempted. The older Preschool children continued with their workbooks. The book has a range of exercises from ...
Expensive bananas and elephants
This is a top pick! Yesterday at Preschool, the older ones were learning to write in sinhala, while the younger ones were drawing with colouring pencils. As I an equally useless at both these things (although I do sharpen a good point on a pencil) I decided to try and learn ...
Insects, insects everywhere
This is a top pick! ... dinosaur, as it had a horn for its nose. Then in my bathroom tonight, climbing the wall, was a spider the size of Hambantota. I've never seen one like it before but was able to steer it out of the window with a broom. Finally, thinking ...
A first
This is a top pick! ... the 40/45 children that attend, only around 12 were in the class as the other children come from mainly Buddhist backgrounds. In Sri Lanka, the only religion taught in schools is Buddhism. So this really is a breakthrough, especially as it could be the ...
Lots and lots of butterflies!
This is a top pick! Yesterday after church I bought my very first, and possibly last, Sari! I can now call myself a true Sri Lankan! The school is having a sports day type event at the start of August so the teachers wanted me to wear one to it! All I'm missing is the top ...
Mr Patrick
This is a top pick! ... Wednesday - all we need now are children! In the middle of the cleaning we had a visit from a Pastor who had worked in Hambantota in the 80's. It was only when he left that I was told his name is Patrick!! Never did I expect to meet a Sri ...
Manic with a capital MANIC!
This is a top pick! Today I woke up and it was like any other Thursday-the sun was shining, the birds were singing, the sky was blue. Ronali, Rodrick and Summit the faithful driver had come down yesterday and stayed until tonight. Everything was rosy in the garden. The only ...
A tuneful night
This is a top pick! Last night, the builders were in fine form. They must have decided that they would have a little sing a long complete with a drum and tambourine. Don't have a clue where these appeared from, but they were singing their hearts out until 1030 outside my ...
Kataragama take 2
This is a top pick! Yesterday at Preschool I took Chandima's class as she wasn't in until lunchtime. She takes the younger preschoolers during their learning time. So they started off playing with Lego and bricks and then did some colouring in. the afterschool class ...