After a 24 hour long journey and landing in Sri Lanka at 4am, the cARTwheel team immediately set to work prepping all the program materials for the kids’ workshops.  Despite the time disorientation and extreme humidity, we are all very excited to travel to the North today to begin our work with the children.

How surreal that all our preparation over the past year will finally culminate when we conduct our first full day workshop at Mallavi Central College tomorrow!

Watch the time-lapse clip of our team …

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My first time in Sri Lanka was in October 2010.  I was part of a group of invited travel media professionals from the US on a tour of the country that was slowly emerging from its long hiatus after a bitter 30 year civil war and becoming the next must-see destination.  Everyone in the industry was writing about Sri Lanka’s Eden-like paradise.  The New York Times even named it #1 in its list of “The 31 Places To Go In 2010″.

Although I was aware of …