Our four weeks in Sri Lanka, teaching on the edge of the Wasgamuwa National Park, is now at an end so we thought we would give you an overview of our time here before heading onto Thailand. Following a daunting first day thrown in at the deep end, we have grown into our roles as teachers/local celebrities and for the last four weeks have been teaching the same children in the village school. We started at about 9.45 with our grade threes and fours and at 10.30 mo...

I have finally managed to get control of the blog! So here goes... Our last few days in Varkala were pretty awesome. We had the most chilled out week, did lots of shopping and enjoyed some sun. All too soon the alarm was going off at 3.15 in the early hours of Sunday morning and we were soon enough at Trivandrum airport awaiting our flight to Sri Lanka. An hour after taking off we were landing in Colombo and straight away Sri Lanka seemed like a cool place to be...