Sri Lanka and the orphans

In my last post I mentioned that we are going to Sri Lanka for a little holiday.

We leave next Friday, and the house is filling up with long lists of things that the teenagers must and must not do in our absence. Things like switching off lights and central heating and not having 3 hour long showers. I don’t know how they are going to stop Porridge from eating all the Chinese lantern fruits and being sick everywhere…I haven’t managed it.

There are also lists of things to do, people to contact and where to find documents if we die, and I hope that Mysweet is being a trifle pessimistic here. Surely there won’t be another tsunami so soon.

We decided that we wouldn’t feel comfortable visiting a place that had suffered so much from the tsunami without seeing if there was anything that we could do in our own small way. Mysweet found the PIN FOUNDATION on Internet and made contact with the director. He has asked us to bring stationery supplies with us for his classrooms, and Mysweet is taking them a KOOLDRUM for the kids to play with.

I expect that what they mostly need is money like everyone else…

Have you got any other ideas?