{"id":7263,"date":"2018-07-24T11:59:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T11:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnerschoolsworldwide.co.uk\/uk\/?p=7263"},"modified":"2019-10-22T12:32:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T12:32:18","slug":"elephants-sunera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnerschoolsworldwide.co.uk\/uk\/2018\/07\/24\/elephants-sunera\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 – Elephants & Sunera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We\nwere slightly less exhausted today; we awoke to the sound of birds in\nthe jungle and the call for prayer in the village beyond. 7.30 and it\nwas out with mats on the dry dusty dirt for yoga! This went fairly\nwell until the starfish position. We\u2019ll try again tomorrow. Then\nit was off to work with the elephants. First, we made up the vitamin\nballs, carefully counting out the medication for each one, we then\nwrapped them up in dough before feeding them to the elephants. Then\nit was off for a breakfast of Roti, a delicious dropped scone type\npancake which you could have with curry or Jam. Yummy\u2026 after which\nwe cleaned the morning beds, sweeping and disinfecting, when we\nfinished, we were rewarded with bathing the Elephants in the river.\nThey laid down and we scrubbed them with coconut husks. If we climbed\non their backs, they treated us to our own personal shower. What an\namazing experience! \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At\nlunchtime, we went to a special needs school. Some of us were quite\nnervous on the way there as we had little or no experience with\ndisabled children, but there was nothing to fear. We were greeted\nwith lots of smiles and soon got into the swing of things. We had\nbought along a parachute game, bubbles and colouring. The children\nhere were so lovely and enthusiastic they loved the activities and\ndancing. After a sad goodbye we made our way to the nearby town of\nKandy. Here we shopped for souvenirs, Elephant trousers and tried the\nlocal fruits which the market sellers were happy to cut open and\nshare with us. What a great day, busy and exciting in equal measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We were slightly less exhausted today; we awoke to the sound of birds in the jungle and the call for prayer in the village beyond. 7.30 and it was out with mats on the dry dusty dirt for yoga! This went fairly well until the starfish position. We\u2019ll try again tomorrow. Then it was off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weydon-school-and-tzu-chi-international-school-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnerschoolsworldwide.co.uk\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnerschoolsworldwide.co.uk\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnerschoolsworldwide.co.uk\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnerschoolsworldwide.co.uk\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnerschoolsworldwide.co.uk\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/partnerschoolsworldwide.co.uk\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7297,"href":"https:\/\/partnerschoolsworldwide.co.uk\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263\/revisions\/7297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnerschoolsworldwide.co.uk\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnerschoolsworldwide.co.uk\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnerschoolsworldwide.co.uk\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}