Batticaloa, August 30, 2008
Friday, August 29th, 2008Saturday, August 30, 2008
Hi everybody!
Just a quick vignette that happened last night. I thought it pretty funny, and so want to share it with you.
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Batticaloa, August 29, 2008
Friday, August 29th, 2008Friday, August 29, 2008
Hi everybody!
The last week or so has been very busy. As you will recall from my last dispatch, I returned to Batti and promptly got a head cold. I’m pretty much over it now; even the residual cough, which always takes me a long time to shake off, has pretty much disappeared.
As I said, I’ve been pretty busy. For one thing, my friend Errol came to town from Canada. (I’m using the past tense because he left Batti this morning.) One of the ABDFs’ missions is to act as a conduit for others to come and run their own projects. This particular case worked extremely well, and I am proud about what we were able to accomplish.
(more...)Colombo, August 16, 2008
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Friday, August 15, 2008
Hi everybody!
As I write this, I am still in Colombo. I return by night train to Batticaloa Monday night. In the meantime I am having a surprisingly good, and productive, time in Colombo.
But I want to catch you up first. When I closed my last dispatch, I had driven up to Colombo from Unawatuna, the small village just outside Galle. I arrived at the Ministry Building, and was told that the next day my friends Minister Sivalingam and Shanthakumar, his personal secretary, were going to take me with them to the southern city of Ratnapura for a few days. OK…
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