Hey guys, it's Harris. Just posting in to inform that I'm leaving back home to Sweden soon. Chelsea left earlier this morning, at 4 am, my flight leaves at 4 pm. I've been last minute packing all morning, ran to the store to buy some snacks for the flight etc, ate breakfast, showered and finally packed.
Anyway, I'd like to say that this trip has exceeded any of my expectations, with the people we got to meet, and the general hospitality and kindness that most people here offered. The weather of course, was mostly in favor towards us throughout the whole trip. The food was amazing! As all of my family members can confirm, Indian food was my favorite when I was a kid, and the Sri Lankan cuisines were highly influenced by the Indians, and oh my god it was such a delight to eat the food.
I'm sitting here in guest house preparing to leave, Chamenka Guest House in Mount Lavinia, an awesome place to live in, only costed Chelsea and I 15 US dollars a night per person. That included free WiFi, AC, ensuite bathrooms and breakfast. It's also odd that when we first arrived to this guest house, Chelsea and I never slept better here in Sri Lanka. Why you might ask, we believe it was cause of the coolness of the AC. So in that sense, I suppose we missed the coldness a bit.
Oh well, over and out for this time, we'll be posting pics and posts when we arrive back home as well! Take care guys and see you all in a few hours time (I'll be arriving at 12pm on Wednesday, be sure to put on your alarms so that you can welcome me back then!)
måndag 9 januari 2012
lördag 7 januari 2012
Hellooooo Bohomestuti!
Hey guys, we're just updating to let you all know that we've left Hikkaduwa after three weeks there. We felt that we wanted to experience the city life here in Sri Lanka before we left the country so that we would be able to experience both sides on this amazing place.
Anyway, we left for Mount Lavinia (close to Colombo, if anyone knows the difference between these two places please let us know, cause on the map they look like the same place!) yesterday afternoon. But before that, we had to have one final lunch with the locals that have been our friends and who also have helped us loads during our stay. To the left we have Ruwan, our tuktuk driver/friend whom has gotten a liking for Swedish music after hours and hours of brainwashing from our part, in the middle we have Sunnil, our dear friend and tuktuk driver, and finally to the right we have Kolin. If it weren't for Ruwan, we would never have met Kolin, and we would never have been able to find the families nor the orphanage to help. Thanks Kolin!
Sunnil drove us from Hikkaduwa to Amalangoda, the next town after Hikkaduwa towards Colombo so that we would be able to find emptier buses to travel to Mount Lavinia to. After that, the bus ride took about 2 hours, and when we were dropped of at Dehiwala bus station, we were welcomed with chaos. Not bad chaos, but the pleasant type of chaos that exists in highly populated cities. A huge difference compared to the calm life in Hikkaduwa. Anyway, we're currently living in a guest house here in Mt. Lavinia until our flights departure on Tuesday!
Write to you guys soon!
Chelsea & Harris
Sunnil drove us from Hikkaduwa to Amalangoda, the next town after Hikkaduwa towards Colombo so that we would be able to find emptier buses to travel to Mount Lavinia to. After that, the bus ride took about 2 hours, and when we were dropped of at Dehiwala bus station, we were welcomed with chaos. Not bad chaos, but the pleasant type of chaos that exists in highly populated cities. A huge difference compared to the calm life in Hikkaduwa. Anyway, we're currently living in a guest house here in Mt. Lavinia until our flights departure on Tuesday!
Write to you guys soon!
Chelsea & Harris
fredag 6 januari 2012
Finiiiish!
Hey guys! You favorite bloggers have once again provided you with another interesting blog post!
Earlier this week, we were able to count through the budget and the costs for the water project since our part of the project that consisted of digging etc. was completed. We then realized that we had about 24 thousand rupees left after paying off the water-board and labor costs. Instead of eloping onto a deserted island in the middle of the tropics and never putting our feet into society again (note that 24 thousand rupees is about 1500kr, A LOT OF MONEY!), we wanted to think of something that would really help many families.
We came to the conclusion that it would be best to buy basic food supplies for each family so that they were able to save the money that would've been used on those items on other things instead. Our good friend Kolin showed us an area that had been affected the hardest during the 2004 tsunami but had been left forgotten, struggling for their lives. We bought all these supplies yesterday on the 5th of January 2012. We gave each family:
- 5kg red rice
- 1kg lentils
- 1kg flour
- 400g salt
- 50g turmeric powder
- 100g curry powder
- 100g chili pieces
We also helped out a boy's orphanage a bit outside of Hikkaduwa. This orphanage is for boys between the ages of 3-16 who have lost their parents for various reasons. The orphanage takes care of about 15 boys at a time. We bought:
- 10kg flour
- 10kg lentils
- 15 toothbrushes
- 7 tubes of toothpaste
- 20 soap bars (Sorry Klara Printz, Emma Carlsson and Olivia Hogan!)
- About 1 liter of Dettol (Antiseptic liquid)
We even had time to play some cricket with the boys.
Today, we still had more money left, so we decided to help out more families. One of our favorite tuktuk drivers Sunil lived in a village that was impoverished. We supplied 8 families with:
- 5kg red rice
- 1kg lentils
- Sunil (Between Chelsea and I) and his family.
We are having slight difficulties uploading the photos so we will try to upload them tomorrow or when we get access to internet with our computers.
Bye! Chelsea & Harris
Earlier this week, we were able to count through the budget and the costs for the water project since our part of the project that consisted of digging etc. was completed. We then realized that we had about 24 thousand rupees left after paying off the water-board and labor costs. Instead of eloping onto a deserted island in the middle of the tropics and never putting our feet into society again (note that 24 thousand rupees is about 1500kr, A LOT OF MONEY!), we wanted to think of something that would really help many families.
We came to the conclusion that it would be best to buy basic food supplies for each family so that they were able to save the money that would've been used on those items on other things instead. Our good friend Kolin showed us an area that had been affected the hardest during the 2004 tsunami but had been left forgotten, struggling for their lives. We bought all these supplies yesterday on the 5th of January 2012. We gave each family:
- 5kg red rice
- 1kg lentils
- 1kg flour
- 400g salt
- 50g turmeric powder
- 100g curry powder
- 100g chili pieces
We also helped out a boy's orphanage a bit outside of Hikkaduwa. This orphanage is for boys between the ages of 3-16 who have lost their parents for various reasons. The orphanage takes care of about 15 boys at a time. We bought:
- 10kg flour
- 10kg lentils
- 15 toothbrushes
- 7 tubes of toothpaste
- 20 soap bars (Sorry Klara Printz, Emma Carlsson and Olivia Hogan!)
- About 1 liter of Dettol (Antiseptic liquid)
We even had time to play some cricket with the boys.
Today, we still had more money left, so we decided to help out more families. One of our favorite tuktuk drivers Sunil lived in a village that was impoverished. We supplied 8 families with:
- 5kg red rice
- 1kg lentils
- Sunil (Between Chelsea and I) and his family.
We are having slight difficulties uploading the photos so we will try to upload them tomorrow or when we get access to internet with our computers.
Bye! Chelsea & Harris
söndag 1 januari 2012
Hello !
We are finished with almost everything. We just have to contact the local waterboard. We would like to dedicate this post to our friends Lisa & Malin who have helped us alot and also to Zach who helped us dig in the beginning of the project.
PS Thank you Lisa & Malin for letting us borrow your camera !
Happy New Years !
Chelsea & Harris
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