My second visit to the school of Moraketiara started with a 40 minute ‘experience’ on a local bus.After flagging down about 5 buses previously we were hopeful that we would end up at Moraketiara town, after our questionable pronunciation of the Sri Lankan name yielded some raised eyebrows and a vaguely confident nod from the driver. The bus blasted popular Sri Lankan music from the old speakers balanced on the front ledge, beside which a colourful but faded picture of Buddha was surrounded by silver braid which dripped with sun bleached sequins. As I stood wedged between school children, old men and ladies in colourful saris I leaned forward far enough to read the sign on the window which proclaimed rather optimistically that we were on a ‘semi luxury’ bus.Departing the still moving bus we arrived at the school gates where our class for this afternoon were waiting for us. I was apprehensive about this session because today we would be teaching the Sri Lankan teachers! After dismissing the few remaining children, the nine teachers took their places at the small, blue wooden desks usually occupied by their students and smiled encouragingly for us to start. We played language games and split them into teams where they soon began laughing and joking, convinced that their colleagues had cheated and that Quavers were not a real English food beginning with ‘Q’. We also acted out some small sketches taking it in turns to be shopkeeper and customer. After some more challenging tongue twisters and songs we ended the class with the whole group singing ‘Ten Little Ducks Went Swimming One Day…’. They participated whole-heartedly with looks of total concentration as they made the hand actions for mummy duck going ‘Quack, Quack, Quack’!Since we arrived two weeks ago the staff have become much more confident with us and are slowly allowing more life and interaction into their bare classrooms. At the end of the session we spilled out into the playground chatting and joking with our adult pupils, just as we had with the children the previous day.