First day in Kandy, I was really excited to explore the place! We had a personal driver called Pet, he took us out on the Tuk Tuk for only 3000 rupees all day, what a bargain. He was full of knowledge, he actually knows everything about Sri Lanka. We agreed that we would go to the tea factory, gem factory & shop, spice garden and tooth of temple with kandyan fire show. So we set off and first stop, visiting a tea plantation as Pet wanted us to start from the...

After breakfast we talked to Yasintha about the school, she seemed disappointed they didn't let us know, she mentioned that it happened before with Aliya so it was a bit of a shame the school did not learn from their mistakes. The rest of the day we did absolutely nothing, we felt deflated because we actually came here to volunteer, doing nothing in the house so when Yasintha told us we were going to national institute mental health hospital the next day with oth...

Went to school as our usual routine every morning but once we arrived we were told that we weren't needed in secondary school as it was the exam week and that we could go to primary school instead. I was disappointed because it would have been nice to be informed about this in advance. (Thats the Sri Lankan laid back attitude!) on the bright side I was interested to find out what it was like in the primary department so we went there. We were put in two separate ...

We slept in as we were still tired after a partying weekend! After having breakfast in the happy banana restaurant with a hot cup of tea, we were satisfied enough to catch the bus to Galle! Sandra didn't want to go to the Galle Fort as she already been a couple of days before with Stephen and Duffy. So she went to a information centre and us there girls set off to explore the Galle fort! It was interesting, unique and it had the feel of a small town. I went in a ...

I had my breakfast at a local cafe and it was sad to hear that they were badly affected by the boxing day tsunami in 2004, they have slowly rebuild everything but it appears that it is slow process as the cafe still looked a bit run down with cracks in the walls. My neck was hurting after sleeping in a wrong position, but all that soon faded away when I had a cup of tea! Whole thing only cost me 350 rupees, £1.60! Beth joined in with us which was nice, soon afte...