wow a week past? that was fast..nissanka friend Nirosh...the government gave Nirosh a free house. brand new, town house style. i been helping him and his family get settled and bought them a china cabinet for the tiny two bedroom, two story house. his wife went into tears she was so excited. only furniture they have is a few plastic chairs and one bed. i took her into a wood store and let her pick what she wanted. i never heard such excited chattering going on between her and her husband. he tried to talk her into getting a dresser with mirror for their bedroom. but she went on and on about the china cabinet...how it will give her a place to put her dishes etc. i told nirosh, to let her pick what she wants. only a woman know what they can use....right?
do i like his new place...hell no...the back yard is a wall of mud...they dug a hole in the hill and build the 4 plex style town house. if a heavy rain fall, i can see that wall of mud caving into the home. i gave him a bag of concrete mix so he can make a small padio out front. and something out back. the home is unfinished. no plaster on the brick walls etc. no running water. the villiager has to go for a nice walk to get water from a well. the tiny kitchen is just a concrete brick in room. with a small counter. no sink. only a small place to put a coleman two burner stove.
sri lankan people, very few. and very few at that have use of a coleman stove or frigeration. they useally use wood burning to cook, and put their produce on the floor. most don't have shelves.
women walking with water jugs on their heads. their long skirts dragging in the dusty dirt. long black hair in a pony tail. the wide smiles on their thin faces...
men riding bicycles yelling marlo marlo...for fish. people go outside to look in the wood crate tied to his bicycle to pick and choose little tiny fishes.
the area is very beautiful, in the rice paddy section. nissanka and i go biking threw there alot.
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