Today was a good day! We woke up this morning just as normal but as we went into the hatchery THERE WERE TURTLE BABIES! We saw them all come up from their little nest and it was amazing! They are so little 🐢😍 they were olive ridley turtles and we collected them all and put them in the tank.. And then ANOTHER nest was hatching as well! We got 85 altogether which is bloody good going! It was really good ☺️
Then we went teaching (the monks) and i was so unprepared so i just winged it! I decided math. I started 1 + 1 and they got that easy so i stepped it up… I managed to teach them area of shapes and start on volume of 3d shapes! They are so good!!! I want to start on algebra next time ☺️ so yeah we came back and released half the new hatchlings! 30 of them! That was really special as well.. To see their instincts still intact was incredible. So yeah it was a good day! Just had tea and ready for bed again! 👌 except vann keeps accusing me of stealing his shorts WHICH I DID NOT DO. 😹

With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️

Dammit i missed a day! Literally just chilled today, had to say bye to bryony and bridie in the morning.. Saying goodbye is just becoming the norm now 😫 but yeah the rest if the day was just chilling and taking tours and stuff like that ☺️
With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️

Woke up in my ‘hotel’ this morning to the usual breakfast meal, said bye to my hosts and headed off to mirissa again! Spent from 10am to 2pm in the sun then got some lunch, very into pasta carbonara for some reason.. Its so good here! So then i thought it best to head back home.. Hardest thing ever. I hate travelling alone 😫 tried to get about 5 buses but none stopped then decided to get a tuk tuk to the nearest train station (which was about 15 mins away) and try my luck at a train.. Ofcourse none stopped at kosgoda (my stop) so i had to get one that stopped in a village nearby. Im kind of glad i got the train though, its pretty fun.. Obviously got the highest class you can get haha. It is a good way of seeing the country 👌
After two buses, a train and three tuk tuks (and being asked if i want to buy some drugs about 100 times) i was SO HAPPY TO BE BACK AT THE TURTLES. literally so tired and drained. Travelling on your own is so hard! Ready for bed (after applying a whole bottle of aftersun)
With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️

I dont know what happened to day 20 and 21 and why they randomly swapped places :s very strange – i blame it on the crap wifi! God i miss good wifi.. Last night at the hotel it was actually a pretty good night’s sleep! Im the only guest and the hosts are very nice and can speak very good english which is such a massive bonus. I got up and they gave me breakfast, bread, tea and pineapple – standard. So then i headed to the beach to catch some rays! I spent from 10am til 2pm in the sun and i dont even think ive tanned 🙈😫 it was so overcast today i think a storms brewing.. JUST MY LUCK! So yeah i got a nice chicken sandwich for lunch and fresh mango juice 👌after that i went back to the ‘hotel’ and wow i realised i am BLACK. a little burnt but i can handle that, but its just my front haha so tomorrow will be back day. It also started torrentially raining for about 15 minutes haha this sunny getaway isnt turning out! Hopefully its just got it out of its system and tomorrow i can really focus on that tan!
I walked back down to mirissa and ate tea at a lovely beach front restaurant, walked back and went sleep! Having a lot of sleep this weekend ready for a week of work ahead! Also i noticed that a guy from the BBC will be filming a programme to include the hatchery that i work at! Hopefully become famous from that haha thats in february near my birthday though – so really they HAVE to let me be on tv! Watch this space
With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️

Well, you may get this a day late because the wifi was crap last night but… today we just did the same thing and fed the turtles and took tours. But in the afternoon we went to a new school to teach! There was a class full of children! Thank god Sue was there otherwise i think we would have failed completely hahaha yeah it was really nice and because both sue and i are here for so long we can help the kids a lot ☺️ We also made two trips to orphanages to distribute yvonne’s play balls! It was just so amazing to see all the kids faces! Go to myball.ch to find out more!

after that we went home and lit a bonfire on the beach which was also beautiful so all in all a very good deed type of day 👌

with love from Sri lanka, Jack ✌️

So this morning we worked the hatchery (as normal) it was yvonnes last day! 😪 she was SO NICE. Volunteers literally come and go its so sad to say bye!
after lunch i set off to a relaxing evening at mirissa… A very touristy town with a gorgeous beach. I set off and managed to scrounge a lift off bryony and bridie because they were going in the same direction! WIN! So yeah i got into the centre and got an extremely overpriced tuk tuk to my ‘hotel’. Very loosely named as it was a homestay which was to the extreme of the word basic. Yeah not that great but i only payed £15 for two nights including breakfast woohoo i love being POOR! Well i guess you get what you pay for 😹🙈 i went to the beach for tea at about 6pm and went to this restuarant that seemed alright but once i sat down it was the only one without wifi, gutted. So yeah i just ate and had a couple of drinks there then moved onto one without wifi AGAIN. losing this battle. FINALLY! 3rd time lucky got one with wifi!
The beach is actually really nice and i could see an island that you could possibly swim to? Dunno if i will try it because im not risking drowning my phone 😷 the one thing i realised tonight is how crap travelling alone must be, i know i went to sri lanka on my own but thank god i did a conservation project with other volunteers! Just having dinner and drinks by yourself is horrible! I mean in the day its fine because mostly i just lie on the beach and tan and listen to music but at night… Wow i could see this becoming very lonely very fast! Note to self: never travel a country on my own without volunteering!

So today, we got up, eat breakfast. We fed the turtles AGAIN! And then sunbathed the rest of the day.. I am getting a proper tan now! Although the tan lines are looking a bit red 🙈 we went sand crab hunting and caught loads! Very happy turtles today 👍 so yeah just a normal day.. I was thinking well thats just an average day but when i was walking on the beach i just thought, im in sri lanka.. Meeting loads of nice people from all over the world, with our own private beach.. And its beautiful weather!! Just taking it for granted haha. Also i have fell in love with the resident dog.. We called her sally and she usually visits around 5pm.. Shes amazing, actually considering bringing her back to the uk. So yeah nice nice day ☺️

With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️

Today was very interesting. We got up as usual and worked the hatchery in the morning.. We cleaned the tanks so it was arm day again! Luckily we have 10 volunteers so it was easy work 🙌 so then we went to teach and me and vann took the monks to teach English. It was a pretty good lesson today, it was really good because we are both guys and they connect with guys more. After that we came back and RELEASED TURTLES! 2 green turtles and a massive hawksbill! Plus they got me to take out the hawksbill and release it! What a privilege. It was just an amazing sight to see them run to the ocean and swim away. Just to think they are on their own now and have to survive in the ocean is incredible. It was really good ☺️
So yeah, after that we had tea and drank! Because its india’s last night! All these volunteers keep coming and going!
With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️

Another basic day at the hatchery, just chilled out and took a couple of tours and fed the turtles. I took this guy and gal round who was making a video to promote the hatchery and i had to explain everything ON CAMERA. Was pretty daunting and i dont know how it will turn out but they work for a volunteer company called volunteer world and the video will be up in april.. FAMOUS. How exciting is that! So yeah other than that just sorted out my weekend and generally chilled, god i love it here.

With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️

Today was just a complete chill day. My legs are so tired i can barely walk anyway haha. I managed to walk to the shop to grab a fanta but that was the most exercise ive done! Just topped up the tan and napped in every place i could find. Managed to facetime my bae and my mum so that was really nice. Other than that just a very relaxing “do-nothing” day 👌 well needed.
Anyways so this was the shortest and most boring blog so far but i have to say it was worth it 😹
With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️