Tuesday 8th October 2024

I think this is the first time that I have ever experienced jet lag so badly, as my body clock seems to be all over the place at the moment. I can usually go to sleep at the drop of a hat, but last night I was still wide awake at 03:00, and I only managed to drift off for a couple of hours sleep before we had to be up at the crack of dawn, as school starts very early here, and we were picked up at 07:30 to be taken into the Pre-Primary Department at the Royal International School.

As a result, I felt exhausted during my lesson observations today, and it was a huge effort to try to stay focused on the job in hand! Valerie is recovering well now from her back trouble (I think the swimming may have helped), and hasn't been as badly affected by jet lag, so she managed her lesson observations far more effectively today than I did. However, we both enjoyed them, and the jet lag is only a temporary condition, which should disappear in the next day or two.

Starting school so early here also means that we finish quite early in the afternoon, and I was able to introduce Valerie to some old friends of mine (pretty young friends really, as they are a young married couple called Nilanga and Radha). I know Nilanga from Maskeliya, where his family run The Riverside Guest House, a place I have often stayed at during my frequent travels there with Tea Leaf, but Radha comes from near Kurunegala, which is where they were today.

They picked us up from school at 14:30, and we went out for lunch at a place by the lake, which is slightly elevated, so you get great views from there whilst you are eating. They presented us with a gift of a photograph of us at Plitvice Lakes in Croatia, which they had found via Facebook, and put in a bamboo frame for us. It was a quirky overlap of our lives, as we spend our retirement between the UK, Croatia, and Sri Lanka, and it was a lovely surprise for us.

Today's photographs are from our separate lesson observations today and from the lovely time we spent with Nilanga and Radha this afternoon and early evening.









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  1. Manika AriyadasaOctober 9, 2024 at 2:38 AM

    Wow Sir it was a beautiful blog.

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    1. AnonymousOctober 9, 2024 at 6:38 PM

      It all sounds so wonderful Keith and Valerie … so pleased for you. Photographs are great too … the lake could be Chew Valley! 🤣🤣
      Love Bx 🦊

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  2. Rebecca NowakOctober 13, 2024 at 9:36 AM

    So interesting to see schools in another country

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