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Sri Lanka Journal |
The Clown's DiaryFriday 18 MarchFriday morning I was awake by 4 a.m. and up by 4:30. writing up Thursday’s report, down-loading all the photos onto the computer, then burning it all onto a C.D. ready to take to the internet office to send off to our head office in England. (Our other office being the table in my room from whence I write). I then went to have breakfast in the dinning room and met Mr Santhalingam. Born and educated in the north of Sri Lanka, he now lives in the U.K. where he is the “principal drainage systems expert” for the highways agency. We talked and he told me how he’d been granted paid leave to come back here and work on well cleaning (most, if not all wells were contaminated by the Tsunami). He is heading up to the north in a couple of days and offered me a lift. I had to decline his offer, stating lack of time as my reason. I gave him CWI’s contact details and asked him if he’d be kind enough to send us a child-orientated report on the camps he sees up north. He willingly agreed but seemed saddened by the fact that I was seeing the East, South, and West, but not the North. I wish we had more time! After breakfast I headed off to the internet office to check my mail, send reports, and check out the web sites of various other N.G.O.’s that I’d made contact with since being here. The sky looked stormy when I left the internet office and my arthritic leg said rain was imminent (it works better than seaweed!) Within a few minutes I got back to my hotel, and saw that on the green opposite a cricket match was being held. 
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