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Firstly may I thank you for enabling me to have possibly the best six months ever. Sri Lanka is a beautiful country and the people are wonderfully kind and generous. Mr Roshan was extremely helpful and kind, both during our voluntary placement and during our return from travel. He really has been outstanding even during extremely demanding times. So will you please convey my gratitude and best wishes. One important point we realised early on was the consistency in the same coaches teaching the same children. We developed an amazing rapport with the children and it made it a joy to teach them. When we used to arrive at the school in the morning the children would literally mob us, it really was an amazing experience, so thank you very very much.
Whilst in Sri Lanka we also had just over two weeks at the Pinnawala elephant orphanage. I wish we could have had longer there as it was also absolutely amazing. The staff in the orphanage itself, the
Elephant View hotel [where Travellers volunteers live during their placement] and the restaurant just inside the
orphanage gates were simply the nicest people I think I'll ever meet. And made us all feel like life long friends when we went to visit. We also had a chance to go to help at the zoo project when it was in it's infancy. although we only managed a single trip due to time constraints we managed to meet
Tony the chimp, Sally the baby hippo, let a cheesy sloth bear dribble on me and I even walked a baby Jaguar cub round the zoo! So as you can probably tell I had an absolutely amazing time.
Thanks again for the experience of a life
time.
Yours gratefully,
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