safe and sound

HEY EVERYONE!!

I love Sri Lanka! we have all settled in and got straight to work... but it turns out it is the full moon festival this weekend and so we get friday and saturday off! therefore... only a two day work week this time.
We're in two different groups: one working on the temple wall and one building the trade school. This week and next week my group is working on the temple wall. The first day was a lot of work: digging, scooping, shoveling, back-breaking work in smoking hot weather... the locals didn't seem fased by it at all though and there we are taking breaks from the sun every ten minutes. We expected today to be even more work but we didn't do any digging; instead we were building the wire framework for the pillars to be built on... it was more like an art project all morning! but then we ran out of supplies so we sat down while people went to get more... then it was tea time... we finished tea and they still weren't back... so we waited and played with some of the kids who go to school there... then we had lunch... then we talked to the head monk and he showed us his pictures and gave us bananas and we ate fresh mangos off of the tree there... and then we worked for about ten minutes when they had found something to do... then it was tea time again and time to go after that!! what an amazing day!!
It won't be like that all the time though haha we definitely enjoyed it while we could.

Tonight is our friday so we're going to get some drinks and play volley ball on the beach go for some swims.. tomorrow is the first night of the full moon festival so we're oging to go into town and enjoy the festivities!!

We have every single day of our trip planned all the way to the end! but I'm not going to tell you anything about it until it happens.

This is just a quick check in to tell you all Im here and safe and loving it!! :D

Talk to you all soon
Love Karen