Wednesday 23rd May 2012 - Nilaveli, Sri Lanka

I was packing my things up when there was a call telling me to come outside - Mohan was there talking with the managers.  He saw that I was packing and asked why - I explained to him about the buddha man and he apologised for bringing me here asking me why I didn't text him and tell him. He said he would drive me to the next place although it was literally two minutes around the corner. He dropped me there and asked me what I was doing for the day. I told him I was going to head to Trincomolee because I needed deodorant and shower gel but he insisted on taking me for no charge.  First though he said he wanted to show me something - he then drove me to see the nearby lagoon and bridge for me to see. Next he tried to tell me the next place he was taking me but the language barrier meant I had no idea what he was saying but it turns out it was hot natural wells. Again, he insisted on paying and was acting really sweet saying he missed me yesterday. There was definitely some chemistry going on.  The wells were nice but the heat meant that the last thing you wanted was hot water but it was still nice to see and Mohan insisted on pouring the hot water on my feet and at one point was holding a bucket ready to throw the whole thing over me!!! Anyway, whilst there I got talking to the only other person there who was a lady from London. She was travelling on her also and asked me if i was finding it difficult travelling alone as a female in Sri Lanka. We exchanged horror stories. She said she was going to come to my hotel after I convinced her that Nilaveli was better than Uppaveli.  After seeing the wells Mohan and I stopped for freshly made lime juice before heading to Trincomalee. I got my bits and pieces and then we started heading back as he had work - picking up the local kids from school. We were running late so he said I would have to stay in the tuk tuk with the kids. Oh my god, they were the cutest little munchkins ever!! There were like 7 of them bundled into the tuk tuk next to me but they were little - they must have been about five years old or younger. I tried to tell one of them to sit on my lap but they were too shy. They all just giggled whispering and staring at me and one girl who was really forward and not shy at all was right up in my face.  He dropped me off on the round of dropping off the munchkins and said he was coming back at 5pm for me. I sat outside my room updating my blogs for hours before getting ready.  5pm came but he wasn't here so I tried calling him but nothing. I decided I was going to walk to the five star resort that was 2km down the road to use their wifi to upload my blogs. I had been walking for about 30minutes when my phone started ringing - it was Mohan asking me where I was. He seemed shocked when I told him I was walking and told me to stop and he was coming for me - I told him where I was heading as continued walking. A man on a motorbike pulled up next to me asking me the usual questions. Then a few more metres up the road a man on a push bike started riding next to me, again same questions. Then a tuk tuk driver asking me where I was going and then Mohan. I jumped into the back and he dropped me to the hotel insisting that I don't walk on my own and call him when I am leaving and he will come and get him. I insisted that I would walk but he asked if I knew karate or if I had a knife - apparently i would need it because the road was covered with lots of drunk men at night! Ok, he won!!  I sat in the bar at the Nilaveli beach resort, which was a beautiful 5-star resort, and paid to use their wifi. I was ecstatic when I got to Skype both my sister and Lahari! When Mohan came to collect me he asked me if I wanted beer (I had told him many times before that I just wanted a cold beer but that nowhere sells!). I was like Hell Yeh!!  He pulled up at a stall on the side of the road next to another tuk tuk where three guys were sitting - they were Mohan's friend. Mohan got me juice from the stall (it was also run by his friends) which had bits of pineapple in. We then left and drove to a hotel where Mo also knew the people. He just strolled right into the kitchen and pulled out two beers for us and handed over some cash to the guys who were joking around with him about me in Tamil. We came back to my hotel and just chilled in the gardens drinking our beer and talking. One beer is apparently all you need to get the truth out of men these days! Another god damn guy that lied about not being married! Idiot!! I don't understand! So he had been married for three-years and had a daughter but apparently he and his wife had been separated for two months and she had left him and gone to Jaffna. I don't know what he was trying to achieve but I told him that it was not cool and that if he was under the impression that I was going to get involved then he was wrong. He was like, no we get divorced blah blah blah!  Although there was chemistry I am not looking for anything but friendship anyway so what the lying achieves is besides me!  Anyway, we chilled until about 11pm when the manager told him it was late and he should go.