My Blog, started to record my adventures as I headed off to live and work in Sri Lanka for a couple of years in March 2006. The blog is now a general record of what I am doing, I have also added the VSO process detail from April 2005 for new Volunteers reading it. Please note: the views expressed in this blog are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect those of VSO.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Shades of Pinky
Well now the rainy season has arrived and it’s a little cooler it seems my neighbours have decided the house may be getting too hot. I haven’t complained, it is in fact a cool house so quite comfortable. It would be quite light if the neighbours didn’t keep shutting the windows. Anyway the new sun blinds are up, plastic and cotton ones so no chance of any sunshine in the afternoons now. I didn’t ask and wasn’t consulted, as for the guy putting them up, check out the ladder, nice man but takes a few risks.
Just a note about the heavy rain, it is common practise here for the cows, goats etc to wander the streets and of course there are cow pats on the roads. During the dry season they just dry and turn to dust and blow away. However in the wet the roads just become covered in slurry. You have to roll your trousers up then wash your legs when you get home as you get covered! Smells bad!