It was a thunderstorm last night and i watched the lightening from my room, it also rained which meant it was very humid this morning.. We fed the turtles some small silver fish – but we had to take them out their tanks and put them in smaller ones (to prevent uneaten fish rotting in their own). Ofcourse i was given the task of the huge ones.. They are so heavy!!! Attached pics of me struggling. I took my first tour round today!! An Australian couple 🙂 think it went alright. We then went to a buddhist temple to teach english. Me and kayla took the monks. There were 3 of them and the other volunteers said they don’t speak much because they had been chosen by their parents to be a monk and had no choice – so they didn’t really want to be there.. Kayla and i prepared a lesson to teach them some words and words with silent letters. We went to the temple and there they were, 3 about 12 year old boys waiting. It was a slow start but i started off, trying to get them to speak to you is really hard. I think because majority of the volunteers are girls they didn’t really connect as well as a boy would. After about 20 minutes of confident goofing around trying to keep their attention then it became a lot easier when they started liking me. Kayla was really good with them as well and it really felt amazing teaching them. Never expected it but it when they started enjoying being taught just the best feeling. I loved it, i think I’m going to take the monks every week now and because I’m here for so long and teach twice a week thats 24 lessons, i can really make a difference in their language.
We then travelled back to the village and we went to the supermarket, of which i bought literally so much stuff. Including a pot of this magic cream stuff.. Its a small bottle of this herb cream that fixes literally ANYTHING. Its going to come in handy. The town was so busy! Just walking along the road and your stepping over dogs and dodging tuk tuks 😳.
It started raining on the bus back, TORRENTIAL RAIN. Just lightening everywhere and absolute downpour. We still ate tea outside though and that was amazing as usual, pita with creamy vegetables and a korma curry 😍😍😍 just amazing. Lea said that chandra (the chef) said she doesn’t like boys, but she said she likes me haha so i get big portions and that makes me so happy.
Whilst in the town we got this liqueur called blue arrack and its like a coconut spirit, when you put it with lemonade it tastes godly. Just getting slowly drunk haha so much for tea total 👍 all in all a very enlightening and feel good day ☺️
With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️