English Aid to Rural Sri Lanka
  • Home
  • Blog
    • 2015
  • Annual Reports
  • About
  • Contact

the EARSL blog

Be a part of my adventure...

I'm going into town. Anyone need anything?

7/9/2018

1 Comment

 
One year in the Sri Lankan atmosphere is basically enough time for any item to become unusable. That said, each time I come to Sri Lanka I have to restock everything. If I want to bake I have to repurchase everything from vanilla to flour. If I want to run a teaching program I have repurchase everything from pens to paper. SO My bookstore bill came out to a pretty 2,100 rupees. What did I buy?

  • 3 pencils (students come to school so often )
  • 1 pencil sharpener (for the aforementioned pencils)
  • 3 markers (poster making tools)
  • poster paper (guess why)
  • 2 packets of lined paper (students sometimes don’t have paper)
  • 1 O/L past papers book
  • 2 star sticker cards (the 3rd and 4th graders love them - but on occasion have lead to some stampedes in the classroom)


Next, we discovered a new favorite tea shop. Dickwella is swarming with shops tailored to tourists so it’s always nice to go somewhere that feels more like pre-tourism infestation era. The best part was the airflow (there were a bunch of fans and the door was basically a wall open to the street so the wind came in too). An odd attraction elsewhere but an understandable one in the humid Sri Lankan weather. So my father and I went home armed with tea buns and gnanakatha (Sri Lanka’s gingerbread man — look up gnanakatha malli).

That’s all for now... teaching updates yet to come.
Samalya
1 Comment
David Smith link
11/13/2022 02:22:37 am

However hotel former those appear. Pick not how after floor change. Box treatment PM hope.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Hi! I'm Samalya. When I'm not running about cramming for school I sit on my laptop and (attempt to) make a curriculum to improve spoken English in rural Sri Lanka!

    Categories

    All
    Bridging Boarders
    EARSL 2017
    Teaching Day

    Archives

    July 2019
    July 2018
    October 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    March 2016
    January 2016

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • Blog
    • 2015
  • Annual Reports
  • About
  • Contact