I feel like such a westerner this morning!!!
A lovely couple called Lallita and Chris took me out this morning. Lallita works in the library here at C.T.S. and was worried that I wasn't leaving the college so offered to take me out today. So I asked her to take me to ODEL which is a big western style department store selling all sorts of things from clothes to books and dvd's, homewares and souvenirs. It was nice just to wander around for a while to see what was on offer and it was full of white people who were clearly tourists.
They then took me to a food court at a local supermarket which had a huge range of food from Asian, to Western, which included Italian and British, and Australian!! Having this opportunity I went for something British!! So a burger and fries it was :) I then felt i could not turn down the offer to try a traditional Sri Lankan dessert - curds and honey, assured that it was just like yogurt. So when it arrived i gave it a go and it was actually not too bad just like a natural yogurt smothered in honey, it was then that Lallita told me it was no normal curds, from a normal cow but rather they were from a Buffalo!! Well sure its something different!! We had some very good conversation over lunch which ranged from their children and grand children to religious issues, thoughts on church and the much debated anti-conversion bill.
So all in all its been a lovely morning with some lovely people...now to relax and enjoy the rest of my saturday afternoon :)
2 comments:
Good to hear of your activities - I notice there was no mention of spring rolls at the lunch yesterday. It's 12 July here ( can you remember this day last year?) and I suspect quite different from your culture today. Billy Alford preached in Seymout Sreet this moring and it was a very challenging Service. Its great great to get caught up - hope you got the Visa thing sorted!
Hey Tom...you know now that you mention spring rolls they have an interesting alternative here with potato and curry (of course!) in them, they're really quite good i think you'd like them!! :)
I do indeed remember the 12th last year, I believe it was the teams first day over at the clinic...big day for everyone.
Thankfully visa all sorted...im completely legal now so they wont be throwing me out or trying to keep me!!!
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