After awakening early to pack up and clear away we loaded our bags onto the trucks and said our goodbyes to Karu, Athula and the foundation building. We drove away heading to the Virgin Tea plantation near Galle for a colonial tea and tour of the plantation including tea tasting – very interesting! A very...Read More
So the end of the tcp is fast approaching and we have RAIN!! the projects are complete and after breakfast we hand over the playhouse, clay pot paths and mural to the pre-school before heading up to our final day with the buddies at Tzu Chi. Even in the rain the little children are delighted...Read More
This morning we woke up at 5:30am (as the birthday girl I woke up to “silly string” being sprayed over my tent). After having breakfast, we headed over to see a buffalo farm – we saw the buffalos being milked by a local farmer – and then visited a farm where the family showed us...Read More
Day 8 Instead of an nice Easter Sunday lie-in, we all woke up at 5am and promptly began to pack away our tents, ready to spend a night on the beautiful Sri Lankan coast. Once the bus was packed full of camping equipment, clothes and other miscellaneous stuff we probably didn’t need. We made our...Read More
Today was action packed from to start to finish. Beginning at 6am we woke and soon headed to the Tzu Chi National school in order to begin work on painting the mural of the two schools on their wall. After chatting with the buddies, a small group of students and buddies came back to the...Read More
Today we woke up early at around 5:45 to make our previously prepared rotis in the the mud hut at the end of the plot. They are a mixture of coconut and flour, like a thick pancake but more coconutty! After breakfast our buddies arrived, but this time it was a full moon day meaning...Read More
Today we had a later start of 6:30 and after a Watermelon filled breakfast we set about starting our various projects on the Janoda Site. These included a mural on the side of the pre-school, fixing and renovating a climbing frame as well as painting clay pots ready for a learning path made by the...Read More
Sri Lanka Day 3.5 We were just getting into bed yesterday when we got a call saying that some hatchlings had been found on a local beach and they were going to make there way down to the see. Speedily (yet drowsy) we got our clothes back on and jumped on the bus. We then...Read More
After a restless night which involved moving everyone inside at 12:00 am due to the rain, we woke up this morning feeling much better, yet again Trigg was the last up even though he was the first to bed, and with 14 hours sleep in total over the 2 days. The cook team which includes...Read More
Firstly we arrived at Weydon at the pitch black time of 5:30. We hopped on two minibuses, heading to Heathrow, after half an hour of bonding; playing an ice breaker game (shoutout to Jess’ mum!) we boarded the plane. A nine hour fight goes as quickly as it can when you have lots of films...Read More
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