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*Transcribed* We just got back from climbing to the top of Adam’s Peak. They said the journey to the top normally takes about 5-8 hours. [Update: I just read lonelyplanet says the shortest distance is 4 hours.] We figured us Canadians wouldn’t be affected by the cold and going at [...] *Transcribed* We’re traveling in the Hatton region because we have to sort out some things with some of the pastors here and pickup Eben (short for Ebenezer) who will be coming to Mullaitivu with us on Friday. This is the upcountry area with lots of mountains. The weather here is [...] *Transcribed* Throughout my life it seems that others have always been far more concerned about me than I am of myself. Did that sentence make sense? Other people seem to care more about what happens to me than I do. Maybe this is human nature as I tend to care about what [...] I got pretty sick the day after we got back from Ampara. My stomach was hurting and I had a terrible headache. I very rarely get headaches, but when I get them they’re really bad. Like my father, I refuse to take Tylenol or anything. I just do my best to tough it out. I [...] *Transcribed* Boy am I glad to be back. That ride home was killer. I unsuccessfully tried forcing myself to sleep so I wouldn’t vomit. I can handle bumpy rides; I can handle twists and turns; I can even handle (to a certain extent) people who shift gears badly and make [...] *Transcribed* We just finished a meeting with a divisional secretary in Ampara for the housing project we’re working on. The land we’re hoping to get looks pretty nice. If all goes well we should start construction in the next couple of weeks. Dr. Wimal (like everyone else) was asking me if I had [...] *Transcribed* We just saw one of the worst affected areas (Kalmunai). The destruction is unbelievable. The home of one of our relatives was completely destroyed. Everyone in the house survived because their neighbor had come over to make a phone call and he saw the wave coming. The woman was [...] *Transcribed* We just met some of the orphans that were with Dayalan Sanders when the Tsunami hit. Their story is pretty incredible. The girl said there were about 30 of them on the boat! I’ll try and see if I can post a low-res video of what they told us. Dayalan was out, so we spoke [...] *Transcribed* In SL, whenever you go to a new district/city, you see the name of the city on your cell phone. I thought this was pretty cool, so I took a picture of the phone saying “Batticaloa”. I showed the pic to Rajeevan and my grandfather who thought [...] *Transcribed* Ammah (my grandmother) gave me a little notebook before I left so I can take notes if I didn’t have my laptop, so here I am using it for the first time. If you’re wondering: I call my grandfather “Kunju” because when I was a baby, he used [...] |
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