Teach to Learn
Hello everyone! Lots has changed since my first post, but we expected as much from the first month of being here. Although it is very cliché to say so, it really doesn't feel like we have been living in Sri Lanka for such a short length of time. Every day has been packed with lesson planning, teaching, dodging three wheelers, and learning how to survive on our own; so I'm struggling to imagine life without the humid heat and coconuts. I do look back fondly to a time without mosquitoes, however. Coaching in the sun Since I last wrote I have been assigned my schools for the year - Unawatuna Maha Vidyalaya, SGV (Welhengoda), and Thithigalle. This means my week will be broken up between the three, which is nice because my teaching partner Jenny and I get to see more of the South than if we were confined to one school. Whilst UMV and SGV have both primary and secondary pupils, Thithigalle is a very small inland school, and the teachers there are especially keen to impro...