Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Karainagar: home sweet home...Kamal, Selvi, Aby...our new family + volunteering as English teachers in Oori!!

As we briefly explained to you in previous messages, we were heading to the very north of Sri Lanka to teach English to poor kids from a small village called Oori, on the island of Karainagar, North West from Jaffna. And what an experience! The teaching bit is a fantastic moment of our lives, and we feel also so lucky and grateful to have the chance to feel "at home" thanks to Kamal, protestant pastor, his wife, Selvi and their daughter Aby, with whom we are living. We teach all afternoons from Monday to Sunday to kids from 5 years old to 16 years old. We cycle everyday 12km to go to the school of Oori a village that consists of low caste people such as fishermen. Those fishermen had to stop working during the civil war until 2009 as the military boats were the only boats allowed at that time.  Please check out some pics & videos in the usual pages "Sri Lanka", "Portraits" and "Foodies"...Some more videos should come shortly.