This morning we awoke at 5:00am to do any last minute packing and tidy up the centre before we embarked on our long journey home. We loaded up our bags onto the truck and clambered onto the bus, after a long three hour drive we pulled up at a little house where they sold cinnamon...Read More
Wednesday 5th August Our last day before travel started with a treat down in the mud hut. We had rotties (sort of like thick pancakes made with coconut and rice) smothered in treacle, butter and jam. A few of us headed off to Hambantota to collect the last few sarees buy a few for sarongs...Read More
Tuesday 4th August Last night the majority of our team decided to sleep outside, so we were awaken rather early by the sun rise, however everyone managed to fall straight back to sleep again only to be woken up 10mins before breakfast. After eating and getting dressed we all tidied up the bag room before...Read More
Today we woke up to our first full day at the Millennium Elephant Foundation. We all woke up around 7 ready for a tour of the foundation at 8, the tour was conducted by Tamsin an old Weydon student. She showed us many of the elephants and gave us a brief background story of each...Read More
Monday 3rd August Yet another early start at 4am being woken up confusingly by the rain, which we couldn’t work out whether it was rain or sand blowing through our mosquito net! This wasn’t the best feeling to start the day, this unexpected wake up call was shortly followed by the sound of Polly’s alarm...Read More
Sunday 2nd August This morning we were delightfully woken up by Polly’s alarm at 6:00am to pack up our mosquito tents and camp beds to make our way down to the beach resort with a few stops along the way. Before our journey, to conclude last nights fabulous evening at 8:00am we planted a tree...Read More
Today was our final day at the Janoda Foundation. We woke up at around 7 for breakfast at 8. Unlike previous days, our visits to the buddies’ houses were mostly played by ear; we had planned to leave to go to the first of our buddy’s houses at 9 which was put back to 12:30...Read More
Friday 31st July This glorious day was started off by the cheers of excitement from Teams 2+3 as we set off towards ‘The Rock Buddhist Temple’ sporting our angelic white linen trousers and shirts. The visit was very interesting (and like all good stories) opened with a painfully slow and bumpy ascent into the dusty...Read More
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