Ramblings

I also now used to eating with my hands and no milk in the tea

I've got into the routine of school in the morning and orphanage in the afternoon so the days are all sorted.
School
School here is kind of odd sometimes - the teachers leave the class unattended or get the kids to sweep the grounds or ask us to take over the class so they can take a break.

Orphange
Communication at the orphanage is still challenging but we have now taught the children the Hokey Cokey, 'Do like I do' and dominoes. I gave some of the kids a wet wipe and some anti bacterial hand wash which smells nice and they were over the moon with this new thing they had acquired. We also bought some jigsaws, balls and paper for them to play with so they're made up. We did also take nail varnish but got told off by the matron as they're not supposed to wear it to school.

Wednesday
Learned on the local news that the school teachers are on strike for 2 days so that has thrown our routine out. Have organised a trip on Saturday to ride elephants and on Sunday I'm going to do the local ancient ruins (by bike)
We then helped Ranjani prepare dinner and wrote down some of her recipes. Ranjani also gave us a treat - cheese and crackers.

Next week is one of the full moon poya days so that will be a day off school too and lots of celebrations in the community.

The pace of life seems so slow here and yet time flies by so quickly

Thats all for now. Love Sue