Mon 24th March, Its a crocodile!!!No wait its a monitor lizard

Ok, so I won't bore you with the details of my actual teaching but will instead tell you all about my eventful weekend in Kandy. We (me, Stef and Ev)went to Kandy on friday coz we got the day off because it was Poya Day. It took us about 2hrs by bus to get there, and as soon as we got there we got in a TukTuk to Hotel Suisse, which according to Ev's guide book was a budget hotel, it was so not budget! But in terms of english money we got a nice fancy hotel with a air con, a pool and breakfast in a morning for 15 quid a night not bad eh!After a bit of scoffing and a quick dip in the pool, we decided the best thing to do next would be to try Arrack a local drink which is rather strong and tastes good with coke or sprite. 6hrs later, 2 or 3 bottles of arrack down we went to bed, having made quite a few friends around the hotel. One of our new friends was the hotel managers/owners son and he gave us a lift the next day to the elephant orphanage. Now I've done the whole elephant thing in Nepal, but I still enjoyed it as these were like a whole herd rather than just the odd elephant. We also got in the river and scrubbed one, it then promptly did a huge turd. I was not impressed to be stood in a river next to a whooping great big bull elephant and it do a turd. Oh I almost forgot on the way to the elephant orphanage, the brake on the car failed and we ran into the back of a van full of people, but don't worry I'm fine it was only a little dint. Back at the hotel we met up with some other volunteers and went for a meal. The hotel managers son then took a few of us to a local club it was ace, and yet again way too much arrack was consumed but all in all a brill night. On Sunday we stayed at the pool for a bit before getting a bus back to Sputnik. So that was our fabulous weekend!!! Oh and we saw what we thought was a crocodile at the side of a lake in Kandy as we walked past, we were like OMFG is that a crocodile, it was huge, it turns out it was a monitor lizard, and loads of locals saw us run away from it, i think they think we're a bit potty!