Day 4.
Today in English lessons at Totogama elementary school we decided to have a more games-based session - which was a lot of fun for us as well as the kids. We started off with singing the Hokey Kokey, during which the kids all got very into dragging everyone into the middle. Then we did an activity inspired by the song, in which we got the kids to draw a basic person and then label the parts of the body in English. Some of the kids already seemed to know a lot of the vocab for this, which was very impressive! Also, teaching English as a foreign language really shows you how illogical some of the spellings we use in English are. Like, try explaining to an 8-year-old child in Sri Lanka why there's a 'k' in 'knee'. After that, we played a bit of Duck, Duck, Goose and also managed to teach the kids the game What's the Time Mister Wolf? and they loved it! It was difficult to explain the rules at first, as I don't speak Singali, but I was so proud that they got it in the end!
This afternoon, we went lake cleaning. We tuk tuk'd to a nearby lake and started litter-picking. The lake was no-where near as littered as all the beaches seem to be, thankfully, but there was still a fair amount to pick up. We managed to get it all on our side of the lake, and then we had some time to go swimming. There's a bridge for trains going over part of the water and people wee jumping off it into the lake. Trish and I went for it and climbed up to the top, sat on the edge and jumped off into the lake. It was terrifying. And then so fun. Great afternoon!
Tonight we went out to a bar and played pool and I managed to get to know Trish and Becca some more. The people here are all really great and easy to get along with, and all in the same position of figuring out what to do for the rest of our lives. So it's really cool to talk to people my age from all over the UK and give and receive advice from these new friends.
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