Leaving for tribal week

This morning fay and I left for tribal week full if anxiousness and excitment. We had to take a bus but it was air conditioned mini van which was really fast because we slept most of it and the drive was really nice. We were signalled by our co ordinator we were getting off and the bus stopped and we were hit by heat as soon as we stepped off the bus. It was like arriving in Sri Lanka heat for the first time all over again. Our coordinator warned us it would be hot but I never prepared myself for this much heat. We looked around and we had basically been dropped on the side of dirt road which some little shacks around selling fruit but that was it. We had to take a tuk tuk 2km into the bush to dambana the tribal village. I felt like I was back in Africa where the roads are all red durt and the shacks are made out of stick roofs and mud walls. The people here also have very black skin compared to the locals in kandy. I'm guessing it may the sun here that makes them so black or maybe it's because these people are from a different tribe like there not tradational Sinhala people. We got dropped off at what was going to be our new home for the next week. We were warned that no one could speak English so we weren't really greeted by the people at the house we were more stared at. They took us up to the shack that we would be living in. The room had to single beds in It and that was it. We were introduced to the grandmother that would be looking after us. Our co ordinator stayed with us for about 20 minutes to translate for us. Thankgod he stayed because we had so many questions. We were confirmed that no one spoke English apart from a couple of the kids were in school so they new a tiny bit. This meant that we would use signals to let her know if we were hungry or needed something or whatever. RULES: we must be inside and home by 6pm because that's the time the wild animals such as the elephants come out. We have to always be with a local if we go some where because there are snakes Etc and we wouldn't no what to do if we're put in that situation. I no I would just poo myself. At 8am every morning there is one bus that comes pass and that's the bus we will catch to the local pre school where we will teach everyday from 8-12. After pre school we have to walk home because there is no bus. Our coordinator left and the lady sat with us and gave us tea and a sweet bread thing. The tea was so incredibly sweet, there was maybe 2-3 tablespoons of sugar in the tiny tea cup. Staying in homestays like this especially in Sri Lanka you feel like you must accept what ever they Give you and finish it so I managed to finish my tea. Just. We sat around for a while everyone stared and then the grandma signaled us to our room and said "rest". She left and said she would be back in the evening so we got our books and went and sat outside under the shade. Both of us were sweating profusely and all we could do was laugh at how hot is it. I don't think either of us had been in this hot temperate without there being a pool or ocean to jump into. The rest of the afternoon was pretty boring, we just sat outside and the little kids would come and play but we couldn't really do much with them activity wise because we were so hot. Around 3oclock the grandma called us into the house where it looked like she was giving us dinner. It was wrapped in newspaper and it was rice and fish dish. We both didn't eat much I think because we were kind of put off by the smell. At 6:00 we went and sat inside because we knew we went allowed outside. We realised that the rule obviously only applied to us because everyone was still running around. We were siting in the door way playing cards with the kids and the biggest snake I've ever slithered past the door way headin towards the bush. I yelled and pointed and by the time thy looked the snake had slithered into the bush. The little boy ran after it trying to throw sticks at it. Don't know what he was doing! I was freaking out the snake was gonna bite him. at 7:00pm we decided to go to sleep cause we were so hot we didn't know what to do with ourselves. At who knows what time there was loud banging on the door which I ignored the first 3 times. It happened again and this time louder but both me and fay were in our bra and undies. I finally opened the door to a man and his child with everyone sitting behind them in the background staring. He signaled something about food and I realised he was calling us for dinner which we thought we already ate a couple of hours

Ago but obviously not. I said we wernt hungry and we went back to sleep.