Boys Orphanage

I visited Mattegoda boys orphanage for my first and only visit. The atmosphere is a lot different at this orphange than at the girls one. They are a lot more playful and active and it is more difficult to get them to focus on learning. They are a lot worse at English than the girls are and also more apprehensive to learn. They would much rather fight and play games. However, they are a lot more kind and helpful to the teachers and even though I only worked there for one day I found the experience particularly rewarding.

The boys being cheeky

They loved colouring and so we intergrated this into learning English by getting them to draw there favourite type of vehicle and writing and say a short message in English about the vehicle. They drew fighter planes, tanks, racing cars, buses, jeeps and hot air balloons.