ABDF

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Hi everybody!

So when I ended my last dispatch, Shantha and I were driving up to Hatton for the May Day rally early last Wednesday.

The drive into the Hill Country is really quite dramatic. You start out in the wet, tropical plains and suddenly you begin to climb. The vegetation changes from tropical shrubs and palms to hardwood trees and dry climate bushes. The roads themselves get narrower and curve back and forth up the mountainsides. Sometimes there is an abrupt drop on the side of the road, which gave me the willies as there are few guardrails or curbs. It’s just the edge of the road and a drop. And you get these big top-heavy buses careening from town to town, barreling along at top speed; I’d hate to have to ride in one.

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Hi everybody!

I know it’s been a while since I’ve written. It’s been quit an adventure. I’ve had the experience(s) of a lifetime, and done and seen things very few Westerners ever have. I’ve experienced unparalleled hospitality, seen incredible beauty side-by-side with the most astonishing poverty, watched a social movement in action, and experienced Sri Lanka from the rarified viewpoint of a high (and I mean really high) government official.