A whole week? You are brave; Yep, looking forward to the tales. Including pictures.

So - I had a dinner party on the 18th for some ex volunteers and current volunteers and also invited Gita and Nishadi (who had arrived the day before). They thought the house was lovely, the food superb and a good time was had by all. The maids were thrilled because one guest speaks excellent tamil and she chatted away with them for ages. The reason for the party was that one of my good friends Mike, who used to be a volunteer in Jaffna has finally given up on Sri Lanka and is leaving for the UK.

Met Eric on Tuesday as he was a guest at our end of year drinks thing. He and I escaped from the masses in the garden and sat in my room and chatted but he had to leave early.

Maduka arrived in Melbourne early this morning. She is there for ten days. Says malli is as tall as she is and also that the grass is one foot tall but Dev says it need to grow more before he can cut it! Gets madder by the day, that man. They bought a new house in July this year so we are waiting for pictures.

Work was mad on Friday because everyone in the head office was going on leave until Jan 5th and demanding information etc. before the end of the day. Jonathan and I took great pleasure in telling them that since we are closing only 24th, 25th and 26th we will send everything in by the official deadlines on 31st December! Ha.

Not much news except that Odel is opened until midnight! Oh and your friend Chamith De Alwis is about to go to jail!

Take care and give my love to Dinelka.

Darshi
