Power Outages and Coconuts

Well, internet access has proved to be pretty spotty here in Matara due to frequent power outages... we sat at the dinner table for 10 minutes last night waiting for the lights to turn on so we could eat. I'm here at Ruhuna University attending a conference of all the project partners here in the country. They are treating us exceptionally well (right now, for instance, I am e-mailing from the vice chancellor's office!). Also, I'm sharing a room with Imran (my fellow Queen's grad student) with a balcony that looks directly out at the Indian Ocean coastline. Not too shabby!

Quick notes:

Yesterday, we went for a walk on the beach and I tripped on a coconut.

I bought a cricket bat!

It is HOT here.

Sri Lankan food: spicy.

My bed has a blue mosquito net that kind of makes it look like some sort of fairy princess bed. At least it's not pink like Imran's.

That's about all I have time for this morning, gotta go do conference stuff! More updates as internet access allows.