It feels like we have had a relatively short week due to it being Esala Poya day on Thursday when we were taken on a trip to some of the most impressive temples in the area, including a fifty metre high Buddha in the sitting posture –the largest in Sri Lanka.This week we have also visited some of the other Project Sri Lanka villages. We went to see the Durham students working in the Gandarawatte preschool and visited the Durham sponsored preschool in Rassandeniya. On Tuesday we led a second music lesson in the Dharmarama school in Ahangama. This week there were fifty children, and we taught them some more English songs including a round with three parts.Our mother’s groups in Pelena have continued with singing and dancing. We are hoping to persuade some of them to perform at the cultural show on the twenty-eighth July which will mark the end of our stay in the village. Preparations for this show are now underway, with performers beginning to rehearse and (perhaps most importantly from a Sri Lankan point of view) the arrangements for a giant feast being made. Our involvement in the preschool and afterschool has continued as usual. This week included a trip to the beach on Monday for sports and swimming after numerous requests –the children love going down to the sea and never seem to go unless we are with them.