Thursday 2nd June 2022

School was closed yet again, and it was another day of working from home on the Monitoring and Evaluation Report for the Rotary International Project - the key reason I am here in Sri Lanka, after all! Those of you who know me well, know that I am a terrible perfectionist, but even I think this is going to be an excellent piece of work when it is finished by the end of this month - let's hope so anyway!

It was a very boring day to be honest, so I will reflect back to yesterday, as before I went off to see Daya in hospital I made a new friend at Ananda's. Jayawardana Darshana - who was one of the original guys working with Tea Leaf Vision - so many people following this blog will know him and recognise his photograph. I saw him again in the evening, and we had a good chat over a glass of Arrack!

On my way back from visiting Daya in hospital, Pradeep, my tuk-tuk driver, wanted to take me to his home, as we passed it on the way back to Maskeliya. I took a photograph of his kitchen to show you how hard it is  for people currently who are struggling to get any gas or kerosene and have had to resort to cooking with firewood. There is also a beautiful photograph of his lovely well-tended front garden!

Your final offering today in terms of photographs is a piece of jackfruit I was asked to take up to Lasanthi yesterday, taken next to a bottle of water, so you can see the comparative size. That piece of fruit was so heavy it made me wonder how on earth it can hang from the branches of the tree! I hope to have more of an adventurous day tomorrow to share with you, but not a lot is happening here currently!







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  1. CharlesJune 3, 2022 at 1:21 AM

    The stove in Pradeep's kitchen is quite primitive, but presumably there is enough firewood to go around in the villages, meaning he won't be prevented from cooking if he has food to cook?
    Julie asks what the jackfruit tastes like?

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