Today was a pretty good day! We woke up to more baby turtles!! Olive ridleys again 😸 they’re just so CUTE! We collected them all and we just ran the hatchery again 🐢 i took another tour who gave me a tip AGAIN! This time 1000 rupees! Donated it again though, i really should start keeping them! Hahaha yeah so the rest of the morning it was really quiet so i sunbathed on the beach and took a few dips in the ocean which was just so nice 🙌
Then we went to teaching! It was really fun today (except all the kids were looking for vann haha).. I took the boys and matt took the girls. It became very clear i cant handle children at all haha all the boys were so unruly so next week i shall try to be more strict! They are just so happy and want to have fun! After learning compound words we played whats the time mr wolf outside and then we went home ☺️ as we arrived though wije got me to do a bloody tour as soon as i stepped through the door! Haha!!
After changing into my pj’s we released most of the new hatchlings and some of the older green turtles which was really cool to watch!
So now tea time and bed time ready for the weekend!

Hello! This morning we got up as usual and fed the turtles after breakfast. We didnt have much tuna so we just fed the smaller ones – tomorrow the big ‘uns will get their share. It was another sri lankan holiday today, they have more holidays than workdays!!! Therefore the hatchery was filled with locals all day.. However i did do two tours to european couples and on the latter tour i got tipped 500 rupees!!! (Like £2.50) so i told them to put it in the donations box because im a nice person ☺ #besttourguideever other than that i have just been playing card games and sitting around! Just a normal day in the hatchery. So yeah we ate, and ate, and ate… I am putting so much weight on.. I can actually see myself growing outwards… This is not good, my face is just getting more round by the day! Ha😹 i think its all the bloody rice! Or the sugar they put in everything! Its too good to resist! So yeah when i come back to the uk, i will be black and obese hahahahaha

With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️

Well today we cleaned the tanks. We started after breakfast and as ive learned tank cleaning is a massive job! We had a group of about 7 people come to ‘help’ but they were more interested in cleaning the turtles than the tanks so we just carried on regardless.. That took us until lunch and after a quick swim in the ocean we ate and returned back to the hatchery. We usually teach but its a national holiday so we didnt have to – instead the hatchery was FULL of locals all day! Also, completely out of the blue a tortoise just appeared on the beach!? It just came out of the ocean hahaha i think there is a lagoon somewhere near and he got lost… A land, fresh water, tortoise coming out the sea is not normal so that was a sight!!
Then we came in, ate and now im just entertaining myself on what travels i shall do next.. Thinking south america 😏

With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️

Today had ups and downs… I woke up at 6:45am ready to set off on a trip to the immigration office at 7:30am. No time for breakfast, i met sue in the house as we both needed to go.. Then dudley rocks up in his (friends) new BMW and tells us were going in that?!?! BRILLIANT! So we travelled in style up to colombo!
We spent literally 5hours in immigration. It was just so boring. Thank god sue was there though because i would have no idea what to do hahaha yeah and at least we wernt on our own with no one to talk to!
After all that, and a MASSIVE penalty because im spending 3 days over 3 months 😫😫😫
So yeah we headed back home after that and i am SO HUNGRY. not had anything to eat all day.. So yeah just gunna have tea and go bed!

With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️

Dammit missed a day again! Sorry about this guys! Today we had a day off so we woke up very leisurely and tried to decide what to do, my original plan was to go to ambalangoda and just walk around.. Try to get some bice photos etc. but then sue and matt suggested going to galle for the day which sounded a lot better haha! So we set off – after burying 160 olive ridley eggs in the hatchery and fighting off chinese tourists who wouldnt bloody stop touching the turtles!!!
We got to galle and sue showed us round, i didnt go in the fort last time so it was new for me and matt.. Its so nice. Its literally like a kind of french/italian style village with long streets dotted with restaurants, boutique shops, spa’s and all that! It was good just to sit down in pedlar’s street and eat, pasta carbonara obviously. Also the milkshakes there are amazing. So yeah we visited deco on 44 – sue knows everyone there, that hotel is so nice.. Like proper nice. We then visited a museum with loads of old stuff in it haha it was pretty cool to see all of that as well
The whole place was just be-a-u-tiful. I really liked it and there was surprisingly low amount of tourists?! So yeah we headed back on an air conditioned bus and had tea and i headed straight to bed! Ready for a very exciting day tomorrow!! (Sarcasm)

With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️