TALKING THE TALK

So we had our first official Sinhala lesson today. We thought that getting someone from the school would be the best way to approach this. Still, it is hard to trust just anyone and we wanted to make sure that we had someone that we knew was reputable. So we spoke to the registrar at the school, Miss Gomez, who assured us that one of the teacher's wives would be able to assist us. She apparently spoke fluent English, which we were pleased about as it is difficult to understand the Sri Lankan accent at times. So we gave her our number to pass on so that she could contact us, but we got no reply.

After a week or so of missing each other on the phone - I dont generally call back missed calls as it usually results in more broken English confusion - we arranged a meeting with Miss Gomez and the potential teacher. It was Hayley's turn to pick up the boys so she met up with her to assess if her English was good enough. In fact, she was quite surprised at how good Hayley's English was, considering that she thought we wanted ENGLISH lessons. Obviously Miss Gomez thought that my English wasn't that great from the conversations we had and arranged for English lessons! Prince thought this was the funniest thing he had heard for quite some time.
So, in the end, we arranged for Brenton's maths teacher, Ramosha, to give us a hand. The lesson went really well - she had never taught adults and we have never been taught Sinhala. She is quite young (it is very hard to tell the age of people here), has been married 3 months and also speaks fluent English. I think Hayley is the favourite already.