We arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka at 6pm last evening, January 13. Thankfully all our flights were on time. I began to snow in Newark, NJ after the aircrafts was loaded and ready for take-off. They just had to de-ice the plane and we were off on our 13 hour journey to Delhi. We got our first taste of the curried rice Indian style on our flight. Many Indians are vegetarians, sowe were offered either chicken or 'veg'. Our 16 hour layover at the airport was good. There are some nice lounge chairs we were able to have for a 4-5 hour snooze. This must be trekking season, because there were many groups in the airport traveling to and from Kathmandu, Nepal.

Randy met us at the airport and we had a long, crazy ride from northern

Colombo to Dehiwalla, just south of Colombo. Our driver was fantastic

as the traffic is crazy! Honking is part of driving here. We headed straight to bed as soon as we got to the hotel room.

We had breakfast with Randy at the hotel (which is just a 5 minute walk from the school) and he also helped us get across the 4 lane highway. All driving is on the left and we are not used to looking the opposite way for traffic. We spent the morning videoing an interview with the academic dean, Bernard Costa. What an amazing testimony! His father was killed when he was 10 years old and when he was 13, he considered suicide but went to a youth meeting and committed his life to Christ and his life was forever changed. He also shared the persecution that many Christian churches must endure from the fanatic Buddhists.