Galle

Our time here in Sri Lanka is continuing. We only taught one class (3 students in their early 20s) before we earned our first long weekend. So we packed up some stuff, jumped on a bus and headed down to the coastal city of Galle. It's on the southern tip of the island of Sri Lanka. That's where we spent our 28th wedding anniversary. The room was cool, on the second floor with a view of the Indian Ocean. The rainy season hasn't ended yet so the ocean was grey and wild. The surf too strong to swim. 

The real bummer is that I have a sinus infection and pink eye in both eyes. I'm a weepy, coughing, wheezing mess and I fall asleep every 20 minutes or so. Sid is taking good care of me when I let him and off sight seeing when I won't. They have some good museums, an old fort, a cool lighthouse, and some spice plantations from back in the days when this was known as Ceylon. 

We came back to Angoda last night. Our host families youngest daughter had her first baby while we were gone. In order to protect him from my germs we've moved to her older sister's house. This sister has a 7 yo daughter and two boys, 4 and 2.  Some of them are sick as well so none of us are getting to see the baby. 

Sid and I are supposed to be teaching a children's class this afternoon followed by another adult class this evening. He may have to solo. 

It's been almost a full day without rain today. That's a good sign as the rainy season is supposed to be ending. Our next weekend will be spent in the town of Kandy which is in the center of the island and should have good hiking. Hopefully I'll be feeling better by then. 

We've a few challenges with the "unlocked" cell phone and wireless service here. At first it wasn't actually unlocked, then the local spot couldn't do it because we're foreigners. The next spot did it for us but 24 hours later the government sent a text saying they were going to cut it off because of incomplete documents. So we went back, got it all squared away only to get the same text again the next day. Today's text said we're cut off. Gives us something to work on over our break. We need that phone so we can stay connected with our regular phones via WiFi.