On the Sunday we played our first game of cricket against a Colombo academy side which boasted two players who had featured for Sri Lanka's international team. Surprisingly we won that match but I didn't contribute with the bat at no. 3, only scoring 2 runs. The next day we played again against the same team and this one we lost unfortunately. It was a struggle backing up the next day and again 
I didn't feature in the runs (same batting position, same score).
I didn't feature in the runs (same batting position, same score). On Wednesday we drove up to Kandy and on the way stopped at an Elephant orphanage. It was amazing getting to see these animals up close and to touch and bathe them. One elephant had its foot blown off by a land mine, and one elephant had killed a handler.
When we arrived in Kandy I had fallen asleep on the bus (no surprise), and woke to find us on the top of a mountain, overlooking the whole town. The hotel is called Amaya Hills. That night half the group went to a Buddhist temple called Temple of the Tooth. It is said to house Buddha's front left tooth which was salvaged when he died. There is great history behind the legend of the tooth and its journey to Sri Lanka. After our visit to the temple we headed back to the bus and came across a man crippled by polio begging for money on his knees. A very sad and confronting sight which made the health issues we all hear about so real.Our first cricket game in Kandy was on Thursday and was a 50 over match which was rained out after we bowled the St Trinity College team out for 150 runs. We played them again on Friday in a Twenty20 on a swamp land which hadn't recovered from the previous night's rain. I top scored: 54 not out (40 balls) and we won 135 to 123. Batting at my customary no. 5, it was good to get some runs.
When we arrived in Kandy I had fallen asleep on the bus (no surprise), and woke to find us on the top of a mountain, overlooking the whole town. The hotel is called Amaya Hills. That night half the group went to a Buddhist temple called Temple of the Tooth. It is said to house Buddha's front left tooth which was salvaged when he died. There is great history behind the legend of the tooth and its journey to Sri Lanka. After our visit to the temple we headed back to the bus and came across a man crippled by polio begging for money on his knees. A very sad and confronting sight which made the health issues we all hear about so real.Our first cricket game in Kandy was on Thursday and was a 50 over match which was rained out after we bowled the St Trinity College team out for 150 runs. We played them again on Friday in a Twenty20 on a swamp land which hadn't recovered from the previous night's rain. I top scored: 54 not out (40 balls) and we won 135 to 123. Batting at my customary no. 5, it was good to get some runs.
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