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...

Waking up feeling very refreshed in the morning means a good mood! It was 7am, I had slept for 10 hours, I was so knackered the night before I actually fell asleep while I was reading "that's life!" magazine! After a cold shower, I had breakfast which was bread. I could have bought my peanut butter jar or nutella chocolate spread but decided that I'll keep it for later. Rosie decided to come along with us to work as she wanted to know what it was like and whether...

This is the day we go to see my school where I will be teaching for the next 7 weeks, Ratmalana school for the blind and deaf. We got the local bus 138 direct to maharagama(it's much bigger than homagama, it got a KFC and loads of choices in clothing department) which took around 20 minutes then once we arrived, we visited the Sri Lanka youth centre which is where some of the hearing volunteers will be working at. It was interesting as the youth centre looked mod...

First proper day of training! All of us including Duffy, Stephen, Sophie and us girls went alongside with other hearing volunteers to a nice hotel nearby to homagama area, we did all sorts of things such as formally introducing ourselves, why did we want to volunteer? Why were we here in Sri Lanka volunteering? We were split in two groups, each one of us had to write down three main points; What sort of impact did I want to leave? What am I fearful of? What am I ...