Our Journey began at school where we got a coach to MCR airport. The first flight was from Manchester to Dubai, a place rich in culture and people; something the airport showed in full glory. Many of us visited shops unique to the place such as Nutella café and local sweets. Our next flight was not even 2 hours later where we made friends with another school group through a shared game of trivia. Our last stretch of the journey consisted of a 6-7 hour ride by coach with a small stop at a local KFC where we discovered the food here is nothing like the one at home teaching many of us that even fast food varies from culture to culture.
We finally reached our destination, Janoda Foundation, in late afternoon and many of us took advantage of the warm weather and cool outside showers to experience life like the locals do.
We then visited historical as well as current landmarks and completed our journey with a trip to the supermarket. At the end of the day we enjoyed a traditional Sri Lankan dinner filled with many exotic spices and flavours. Then exhausted beyond compare from the days exiting events we then went on to discuss what we thought about the day.
We talked about how we felt about the events that occurred; did we like or dislike the food, what we thought about the landmarks and the local people and what we were excited to see and do the next day. The group conversation was long and after an even longer day full of exhilarating events we decided to head of to our beds exited for tomorrow and the many adventures it would bring.