Sorry I haven't been talking for a while now I'm really buisy. I am having so much fun. Wednesday 16th we worked for 6 hours. It was long and hot but it was cool using different kinds of tools the we normally wouldn't use in Kamloops. After work my mom, Jen, and Steph went to a english school in a village called Ketakalawata. There we were able to meet the children and interact with them. It was cool that we got to sing and teach them songs. We took a lot of pictures of the children. After taking a ton of pictures we went outside and played games with them. We played duck duck goose and stuck in the mud. They loved playing the new games. Sometimes language was a barriere but we just smiled and nodded and it was o.k. I was able to see a monitor lizard in the bushes where I was sitting. It was about 2 feet long. How cool is that?! Today there was a bombing in Sri Lanka about 100 km from here. Don't worry, it was a ways from here. We are safe.
Jan 17
Today I was part of the concrete making crew. My job was to shovel sand into the cement mixer. 30 shovel loads a batch. Oh my aching back and blistered hands!!!!! For five days of working we have made a lot of progress. After work we went to the beach to play in the waves and sand. At 4:30 I had to go with my parents, Terry Lake and Terry Shupe to have tea with the Mayor of Tangalle. He had a big and beautiful house. Near the end of tea with the mayor, there were a whole lot of bats flying around us eating the bugs. Yikes. It is around 7:30 pm and I have to go have dinner now. Talk to ya soon, Raija