Monday 11/17/14 holy hot here.

Got into Colombo around 2:30 am pick up my luggage and get picked up by projects abroad staff. The drive from the airport to my house is about 1.5 hr. Got to the house around 5:30 and totally crashed... Slept till like noon got up had a delicious lunch and unpacked. I don't think I have ever been more grateful for a cold shower in my life!!! So refreshing but the second you step out of the shower, you are instantly sweating again so I'm just going to have to get used to that. This afternoon we had a crazy storm... Lightening, thunder, wind, downpour, the whole deal. Apparently they don't usually gets storms like that here so my host family was really scared and freaking out a bit, especially when the power kept going out haha. After a short while the rain stopped, I rested before dinner and then went to a hotel to meet up with some volunteers that were getting together to say goodbye to a volunteer that was leaving that night. It was so nice to meet everyone right away and make some friends that first day unlike Peru. There are two other volunteer houses very close to mine which is also really nice. There aren't many places for us to all hang out so it sounds like the trend here is for everyone to hang out at a hotel/resort for wifi and AC. We are starting to plan a trip for this weekend to Adams Peak, which was on my top things to do, so I'm excited about that.