Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Election Fever Part 2

Despite not having a vote myself, I received a personally addressed letter from the President of Sri Lanka asking me to vote for his party. Hmmm even I know that foreigners do not get votes.
But I am in good company, the Opposition candidate, the ex-army chief of staff, Fonseka has also not been allowed to vote in the Presidential elections.
Hold on a minute - you mean to say that the main opposition person running for the Presidential seat  hasn't been allowed to vote?
Why? Fonseka says he's on the list but was too busy with what was happening in the North to pay much attention to his electoral registration.
Only in Sri Lanka....

Friday, January 22, 2010

Election Fever




Sri Lanka will be holding its presidential elections next week (Jan 26th) and many people are anxious about next week as it seems that the two forerunners; the current President Mahinda and the opposition candidate Fonseka are closely matched in the polls.
Government schools will be closed from Mon 25th to Thurs 28th and it really is anyone's guess as to what will happen after then. Shemil has just been out shopping to discover that many of the local businesses have closed up and their owners are away.
Although we are open on Monday next week, we do have boys boarding with us who will not able to go home for the elections, and it seems that we be under a curfew - although nothing official has been announced.
The blind school that Shemil works at will be closed most of the week and with over 100 boarders and limited teaching staff there may be some difficulties.


On the positive side we have just heard from the Ministry of Education that our boys will be allowed to study both Divinity and History in English medium if they so wish from Grade 7 onwards.

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Happy New Year!


Greetings from the both of us as we returned to Sri Lanka to celebrate the New Year. We had a wonderful holiday visiting lots of interesting places in North India. Here are few pics...