We started bright and early at 6:45 for a 7:30 yoga session, we learnt moves such as “tree” and “dead body”. After yoga we had breakfast then hurried to the pre-school and sang once again the classic ” heads, shoulders, knees and toes” swiftly followed by “wheels on the bus”. Then we moved on to...Read More
Today was our first day at the Janoda foundation. We started out by going to the foundation’s kindergarten and meeting the adorable children there. They greeted us with miscellaneous flowers and led us inside, where we sang songs and played games (they loved the bubbles!) After lunch we set off to the Tzu Chi school...Read More
Today we started our long day of traveling, starting with a early 5.30am start. We began our journey with a 2 hour bus ride to Kandy Station. We had a quick break half way through at a amazing bakery, where they sold many delicious breads that were definitely needed after the early start! When we...Read More
Our first full day at MEF! At what felt like an early start of 7:00 (which apparently is a luxury) we met in the office to make the elephant’s vitamin balls. While the boys made the dough mix, the girls counted out the vitamins and then we were allowed to feed them to the elephants....Read More
Hello and welcome to Sri Lanka 2016 ! Today, we began by boarding the plane (which was delayed from 10:05 to 10:35) with our sweets and miscellaneous beverages firmly in hand, and to our delight the plane had Movies and Video Games built into the seats, we were all over the moon with this as...Read More
Hi, The team are off and I am sure all very excited. We will be keeping you up to date with their adventures via this blog and if internet speeds allows with some photos on Facebook. Let the adventure begin!Read More
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
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