Our interesting journey to Mandur 2 – Sophie O - 24/10/16

After an early start we began our journey to the pre-school, Mandur 2, by tuk tuk. It was a bit of a bumby ride at first but once we reached the main roads it was smooth. However we encountered other problems, the number of near misses between cars and the tuk tuk, was extremely scary. On our journey, we began to go down a road which all we could see, was that it led to the sea! We continued down this road getting more and more worried where we were actually going. Suddenly the tuk tuk’s stopped and we had reached the end of our road. All that was before us was the sea. We managed to work out from the drivers (through our tamal skills) that we had gone the wrong way and the pre-school was on the other side of the sea. Although the other side was in sight we were never going to be able to drive around there in time. Luckily we noticed a boat coming towards us and realised it was a ferry. When the ferry reached us, we then had the struggle of getting the tuk tuks on. Men stood on the edge of the boat and sticks were laid to fill the gaps between the land and the boat, finally the two tuk tuk’s managed to get on. So after an unexpected boat trip we reached the other side of land and were greeted by the priest of the church, next to the pre-school, we were going to. The priest then jumped on his motorbike and we followed him to the pre-school where we were greeted by the little children. Garlands were then put around our neck and we were given a very warm welcome. We had finally arrived.