Tuesday 20th January 2026

I was delighted to work with the Trainee Teachers for a full day today, as I was keen to complete some of the work with them that I did with the Trainee Teachers at Tea Leaf Centre Nuwara Eliya. I will lose them again tomorrow, but fingers crossed, I will get them back for full days' training on Thursday and Friday. Although I won't be able to have as strong an impact as I did in Nuwara Eliya, I am hopeful that I will still make a significant difference to their performance as teachers.

There was an assembly outside on a lovely warm morning where the new intake of around 150 students was distributed to the 7 classes that they will learn in during the Intensive English Programme and for the rest of the Main Diploma. We then set up the Trainee Teachers room as a classroom, so that I could model some teaching with them, with them using role play situations to develop their teaching skills, and it proved to be a lot of fun today.

Lessons ended at 14:30, and soon after I was on my way into Maskeliya, as I was meeting Mr. Rizvi for a catch-up at Butterfly Mountain Guest House. For him, as a government schoolteacher, the new school year starts tomorrow, so this was the final day of his recent break. It was lovely to see him, and he travelled back in a tuk-tuk with me to Daya's place in Norwood, before returning to Maskeliya, and that may be the last I see of him on this visit.

I went for a walk from Daya's house to the river with Daya's brother, Rasi, and his 'nephew' Shan, where Rasi filmed a very short video of me offering well-wishes to Daya and Vino for their upcoming wedding. An album of videos is being created by a close friend of the family, and many people have been asked to contribute short videos towards that album. It was, of course, my pleasure to play a small part in that, and I was very grateful for Rasi's support.

Today's photographs show the morning assembly, my group of Trainee Teachers in their little classroom, the view from Butterfly Mountain Guest House, a nice one of Mr. Rizvi, and three of us down by the river where we filmed the video for the wedding celebrations.








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  1. AnonymousJanuary 20, 2026 at 3:09 PM

    Beautiful photos. In particular the ones of the Assembly in the shade, and of Mr Rizvi who has featured in your blog over a number of years (was he the person Peter Hopwood conversed with?).

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