It's now December and normally this is the time of year when my toes freeze and the big furry hats from Portobello road make an appearance. In Sri Lanka however, the heat is only intensifying and the tourists are streaming in with their complaints of the coke not being up to the American standards and purchases of all things 'Sri Lankan' but not actually, like 500 rupee necklaces and colourful thigh length sarongs are in excess. Luckily for Jamie and I we have ...

Strong healthy and reinvigorated, Haley and I have had a surge of energy since the disturbingly potent antibiotics for which Haley and I suffered just about every side effect there was. Nevertheless, we pushed on through to the end and are now completely better. I had forgotten how it felt to not feel sick after a meal and suddenly energy which had been in such short supply was coming out my ears. The hospital trip was a new experience in itsel...

The past two weeks have been a bit grim, with a stomach bug which has hit Haley and I rather badly appearing on and off, meaning that one minute I'm teaching netball and the next I'll have my head over a toilet. It could be to do with the fact that we ventured into Columbo having still not quite recovered from the staff trip. It was so crazy, I can't imagine what Delhi must be like. In some places you couldn't walk faster than snail's pace becau...

I've just had the weirdest weekend of my life that I thought it deserved a blog of its own. I have never experienced anything like it and to be honest I don't really want to ever again. Once was more than enough. This weekend was the the staff trip when I really got to see Sri Lankan culture in its true illogical bundle of madness. The morning of the trip began with a bang as I traipsed up the stairs at 4 in the morning to get my rucksack and ...

I have now been in Sri Lanka for two months and it seems safe to say I have settled in. I never thought it would take so long, you feel a lot more settled once you can understand how to successfully get on and off a bus at the right stop, but it is only this month really that I have started to feel like I'm at home and not making do in a youth hostel for a year. I have stopped noticing the heat as much and even felt chilly one morning as I reluctantly stepped i...