Work work and more work

Folks,
Well we are finally settled into our new home for the next 6 weeks. We have a 10 berth dormitory to ourselves which is based on the sports complex so a swimming pool next door and a cricket pitch. The pool is awesome so I am getting Jo into a rigorous swimming routine everyday, she was even up at 7am this morning for 30 laps before b/fast.
Unfortunately I have got a cold (due to being in the pool with the kids for 2 1/2 hours yesterday) so had to pass on the morning swim.
We have both been allocated tasks now from the main man Kushil who set up up this charity using money he inherited from his parents.

The guy is a legend having his own sugar business, but such a big heart because most of his time is taken up with the charity. He set this up 6 years prior to the Tsunami just to help with the village kids who don't have the same opportunities as most of us. (he was from this village but was sent to Columbo for schooling) However when the Tsunami hit things just got so much worse and the charity has had donations worldwide so the work everyone is doing is sustaining the momentum created by the relief efforts from the Tsunami.

Its pretty heartbreaking playing with the kids knowing that every one of them lost a relative or friend and most lost multiples of this. We can, at least, take their minds of it and its not difficult to put a smile on their faces. They are massively positive...........anyway I won't go on !

My tasks are as follows:
To help with the swim training/coaching. All the kids have ever done is swim in the sea with no coaching so their technique is pretty bad. I am working with the coach to demonstrate and encourage them to learn proper techniques. After the Tsunami the sea is demanding some pretty big respect so the kids are mad keen to get good at swimming. This means I am in the pool 4 days a week for 3 hours at a time (I think I have some gills sprouting).

Help out with the swimming galas (when I was a kid every saturday was at a swimming gala so this is second nature......but without any stop-watches)

I am organising a triathlon for the surrounding local villages. Obviously they have never done one so its pretty exciting. After speaking with the swim coach he told me that when they organise swimming galas they literally drive around the local villages with a loud-speaker, how cool is that ?

Helping with the pre-school kids. This is where our superb english teaching skills are required, ahem. 8am to 11am is running round after the little shits making sure they don't kill each other. There are 70 kids and 2 teachers so they need all the help they can get. This morning we sat reciting english nursery rhymes, its amazing how many I still knew.

Help out at the sports centre and produce a report to recommend running it more efficiently. One thing I would do immediately is sack half of the staff cos they spend so much time doing absolutley f*** all. I guess this is just the way things are in SL.

Make the pre-school playground safer - at the moment its a death trap.

They are setting up a dive school to provide employment for the locals. I am sorting out the logistics of this.

That is all.......luckily we are only 2km from a half-decent surf break (5 mins on my 50cc scooter) so any spare time is used wisely.

I will leave Jo to explain her role(s).

Hope everyone is well back in the UK. Please keep us updated with any news or just general chit chat, as we miss you all.
Big love
G xx