21st December - Day 20

This morning we ran our second TEFL session for the school children. However it seemed word had spread because a lot of the children today were teenagers!

We had 33 participants today, with about 15 returning from yesterday. Again we played lots of games re-enforcing what we had done yesterday and extending it a bit too!

The Hokey Kokey was so popular yesterday it got repeated today - the children were definitely starting to learn the words, especially the words for their arms and legs!

We played a version of ladders with fruit and vegetables - adults and children all played!

We worked in teams and tried to score lots of points.

We were also presented with a card by the Guides who's campfire we had joined last night.

We packed all of our resources and presented the NTC with some of them to keep and use both in the centre and in the school.

Back on a bus we were this time headed for HQ in Colombo. We arrived just in time to put our bags down and were whisked back out again. This time we had been invited to a Little Friend's Christmas party!!

On our arrival we were greeted by two Little Friends each. We each received a Christmas present and a garland of white flowers, before being taken into the party. An arc of chairs had been set out and more Little Friends were waiting for us there!

The girls sang some songs and performed a Sri Lankan dance for us.

We were then invited to run some songs for them before the girls performed a ballroom dance for us. The girls then invited to join in with both the ballroom dance and a hip-hop dance too!

Santa arrived shortly after. We decided Santa here looks scary!! He wears the same red suit and red hat, but carries a stick with pink balloons on top. He also wears a slightly scary white-skinned plastic mask complete with attached white beard! Santa provided gifts and sweets for everyone, although he did get mobbed by the girls on his arrival!

Dinner was hoppers, and we got to see them being made too! We then spent some time talking to the girls about Little Friends and Brownies in the UK, and they attempted to teach some of us how to dance Sri Lankan style!