more team pics

Laura painting at the temple.
Henre looking at the last of the re-bar cage.

more photos

Alex, the greek god of re-bar.
Deb with Stel, the greek god of concrete.
Travis takes no prisoners in the jungle.

Finally home

 I am glad that we are finally home. Staying away from home for 2 weeks can make you miss the things that you are used to. Going on this trip was a great experience and I hope to come on one of these trips again. I have seen a lot of cool things and places in Sri Lanka like the Buddhist Temples, that was pretty cool and the temples were huge! We saw the biggest buddha statue in Sri Lanka. We also visited a village called Ketakalawata. It is a village that was finished being built last year. There have been many groups from Kamloops working on the village over the last couple of years. It is now home to 24 families. The last day in Sri Lanka we stopped in the town of Galle. Galle has about half a million people living in it. When we were in Galle we went shopping inside the old fort walls. It is 500 years old. I bought some pretty cool stuff in Galle. We went to the old Dutch Church that was inside the walls as well. It was 350 years old. It was kind of creepy because people were buried in the floors and walls. The food was really good and spicy in Sri Lanka. My favorite meal at the Palm Paradise was the grilled chicken and Vegetable fried noodles. They eat a lot of seafood, curry, and rice. The weather is very hot and very humid. The hottest that it got there was 40 degrees and 95% humidity, so you were sweating a lot. The beach was very nice and relaxing when you got there after a hard days work. The water was very warm and very salty. The people are very friendly there and have smiles on there faces when they see you, especially the kids. They will try there hardest to speak english and try to understand you. 

       I learned that we have it pretty good here in Canada. It was pretty devastating seeing all those homes and buildings wrecked by the tsunami. I am thankful for what I have and I realize that I shouldn't take things for granted. 

   Thank you for following along with me on my adventure. It wasn't always easy but I wouldn't change a thing. If you would like to go on a trip like this sometime and have an adventure of your own go to www.developingworldconnections.org .  

    Raija.

Work site pics.

Brenda, Roger and Terry(Shupe-Dog) bending re-bar.

Mark cutting re-bar.

Ernie tying re-bar.

photos

Buddha statue in the cave temple.

The cabanas where we stayed.

Matt getting a lesson in cricket.

Surrong night

beach where we played