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SriLanka-- SFH words just cannot express enough what happened at sri lanka-- but all I can say is that it was a really enriching experience, that allowed pretty much all the alchemies to appreciate the lil things in life... hahah oki hmm we went to SFH-- St Francis's Home for the first 3 days, where we played and interacted with the children.. They were jus so damn sweet can't help but smile when i think of them.. When we arrived, we were welcomed with flowers for the girls and wreaths for the guys.. with traditional drum rolls etc, sho sweeeet!! haha and when we took photos with them using our digicams, they would just flock to the camera after that, coz they were just so plain amazed by the tech that they had never seen b4... makes us out to be really lucky ppl isn't it.. then after that we had tea with the warden.. the tea is like the ULtiMatE thing ever la! the taste was just heavenly haha then we started drinking tea everyday.. the warden took care of the children really well and us too.. the children actually willingly gave up their beds for us to sleep so actually our accomodation was pretty comfortable, junkai thought we were gonna slp at the playgrnd man! hahahah and tt's jus tt for the first day which was super remarkable already.. the next 2 days(day time) we spent cementing the tiles that they made and interacting with the kids. Wah the kids are really fast learners as to the games, and not just that, their plain enthusiasm and energy is amazing. we played captain's ball, soccer etcetc they taught us their traditional game cricket! They can just run up and down like monkeys man.. hahah ohhhh and they had several nicknames for a few of us, adrian was monkey, i was aket--meaning sister, Geraldine(G) was u-ra--pig hahhah, kelvin was waso-patia--cow etc.. at first i din noe what aket meant then wenduan just loved them calling me tt(maybe he tot it was some swear word or smth haha) so the stoopid idiot jus kept on throwing the frisbee to me and each time i got the frisbee they'll scream aketaketaket.. but aft tt when i knew what the word meant well it meant a great deal to me.. and i thought to myself that all of us could and i would want to touch their lives just as much as they've touched ours.. then on the 2nd night we had some dance thing haha the kids used simple traditional drums to make music and the rest of them dragged us to the 'dance floor' hahha act it was just some grass patch.. but it felt like mambo hahhaha it was damnnnn fun i think i went 'high'.. but the kids can dance damn well man.. and well it felt like then and there i could just do anything i wanted without anyone judging me or all the social stares and norms? ya.. the feeling of absolute carefreeness.. yupps and we had mass together too, in both sinhalese and english.. it was so simple but sweet=) but what struck me was that these children did not have much but they were happy and they had so much love in them--God's love.. and perhaps we should learn from them isn't it??=) the 3rd night in which we had to leave, they put up a performance for us and so did we... the little ones sang a few songs including jesus loves the lil children hahah it was damn cute and the older ones put up a dance item breakdancing etcetc they are so super talented! haha oh and we sang peace like a river, did friendship dance and sang pass it on.. after that we had a nicee dinner, ohhh the food they gave us for the 3 days were nicee.. local delights i rem was the curd with honey, TEA and rice cake.. yupp haha that night knowing that we had to leave the next morning was just super saddening.. hai one of dem told me no go no go, which jus broke my heart into a million pieces la but all i could say was to study hard make life's worth and well pray and wish them all the best.. oh wells hopefully we did give them a memorable exp.. haha this's SFH for nw.. next post BIH- Boys' Industrial Home!
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