Many things have happened in the past two weeks to change both my views of Sri Lanka and the way in which I approach teaching and what this year is essentially going to be about. I have fully realised the extent to which I will be exhausted this year and also to just how fast it is going to go. Today is a Thursday and my whole body feels like it is about to mush into jelly. I do also however feel that I have broken some sort of barrier when it comes to teaching...

Time has absolutely flown since I last wrote. I cannot believe I have been living in Sri Lanka for a month now and just how many experiences I have had, both good and bad. Haley and I did wonder whether we were about to crack under the strain of constant cooking and cleaning when our oil disappeared and we of course jumped to the conclusion that we had been robbed. After finding it in the cleaning cupboard however we realised that it made no logical sense for ...

We have arrived in Sri Lanka. We have finally done it. We thought we had stumbled at the first hurdle as we sprinted to the gate at the airport which had just been announced closed, but we soon realised we were mistaken. We have now been here for two weeks and I have learnt an awful lot besides Sinhala, which is actually quite essential if you want to survive on the budget we have been given. I have learnt that insects are called 'harmless' if they are poisonou...