Unawatuna Beach Bungalow Hotel

... est tres mignonne et tres sympa. Elle a paru surprise quand je lui ai dit que j'avais 36 ans.... Regarde pas trop internet en fait, parlons et je lui propose d'aller fumer sur la plage pour voir le sunset. Trop tard pour le sunset mais on fume nos deux bedos en parlant puis on se separe. Elle repart autre part demain, dommage elle etait bien cool.<br>Reviens a l'hotel et y vois Andreas, allons manger ensemble au One Love en hommage a Bob Marley, bois une biere en ...

... Lanka, was named Hasantha Kulatunga. We sometimes had trouble understanding his English, but I ended up being very impressed at the wide body of knowledge he had about Sri Lanka. He knew about sports, history, agriculture, industry...it was hard to stump him. He was also informative about the civil war that has been going on for decades, and the high security around Colombo designed to prevent further terrorist actions ...

... walk the beach trying to sell their handicrafts, sarongs, fruit, etc. I started talking to a fruit vendor, as I was eating my pineapple lunch, and he was telling me about how he lost his wife, two out of his three children, parents, and one brother in the tsunami. Other than most of his family he also lost his restaurant on the beach. Now he sells ...

My Bollywood tales continue, this time in Sri Lanka! On Christmas day, while enjoying our turkey dinner, and mingling with the 49 other guests at my friend Alison's dinner party, her friend Linda suggested we take part in a Bollywood photo shoot. Linda is a makeup artist, among many other things. She's an enterprising entrepreneur, and beautiful home owner in Sri Lanka.. all at the advanced age of 30-something! Plans were made to meet at Linda's house ...

... out their hand and ask for money. It's wearing, and I find it hard to pass by without my Irish Catholic guilt rearing its head. My guilt surrounds being born into a free and developed and rich country. I am incredibly wealthy in relation to most people I meet on my travels. Recall that witticism "I've been poor, and I've been rich: rich is better." Rich in spirit is my aim, as well as letting go of the guilt of my ...

... developing world with access to fresh water, free education and free health care. The king, a seemingly benevolent one, seeks improvements in GDH (Gross Domestic Happiness) rather than GDP. The local Red Panda and Druk Lager improved our GDH. Nepal was next. Where Bhutan is calm and orderly, Kathmandu is wild and woolly (especially during the ...

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, in the same time period they have learnt 3songs and a game! Thursday is the mad afterschool class, although today they weren't as mad as ...

... it was incredibly busy...again with 100's of people in white gowns entering and exiting the temple and 100's more draped under large raintrees to escape the hot, hot sun. The Buddha is one of the biggest and most impressive that I have seen... PINNAWALLA - A home for orphaned elephants Pinawalla is a huge property near a river where elephants who have been orphaned come to reside. There are about 80 altogether ...

... perched atop the ship's bow for long stretches, I watched countless flying fish glide across our path, and laughed like an excited child as entire pods of dolphins played chase with the ship-streaking ahead of us like little blue torpedoes. When I wasn't busy being enraptured, I read, wrote, and slept my fill, studied Hindi, and even watched a few movies. I also chatted a bit with Loyal, the other passenger, though he was only along for the Singapore--&gt ...

... thing to do. It is also perhaps, a way of saying that cultural numbers are for us women, also prayerful expressions of who we are. After the program, there are the inevitable poses with EWA friends, of course. Many of these photos are from Teresa of Vietnam.