Katharagama

   Katharagama is a sacred place which is situated in the southern province. Many people go to make vows and fulfill their vows. Katharagama is like a small town. There are many hotels and restaurants to stay.
      At the entrance to the katharagama premises there is a big pandol.there are many devalas for each god. The compound is sandy. The god of that area is skanda kumara. The sacred area is fenced with an iron mesh right round the wall of the devalaya. There are many statue of elephants and peacocks in some devalas. Pirith is chanled and thread is tied. On your wrist as a vow some Tamil. People role on the ground in the devalaya compound. Some have small arrows pierced through their cheeks. Some are suspended by hooks.
         By the side a road to kiriwehera there are Ehela trees. During the reign of Dutugemunu. It was a safe place for the other kings. There is a brass tree covered with a brass fence. Reliks of the Lord Buddha is beneath dagoba kiriwehera.
                                                         Menik ganga flows through katharagama.Most of the devotees take a bath in it before worshiping god katharagama. There is a big bridge. Kavadi dancing is a traditional dance carried and during the festival. The clmed priest condncts the ceremong .after the ceremong the food that offened to god katharagama by the chief priest is distributed the devotees.
                                       It has a dry climate. We
can see “wedihity kanda’’from there.
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The Ceylon Tea

Ceylon tea is famous the world over.It is the most important of our cash crops, the other two being Rubber and Coconut.Tea cultivation was started by Europeans towards the latter part of the nineteenth century when the coffee plantations were ruined by the coffee pest.Ever since these planters changed over to tea, it has grown in importance.Today it is our greatest industry and makes up sixty per cent of our exports, bringing to the country, in 1953,an income of Rs,825,090,178.A dangerous pest appeared on a number of Tea estates in 1946 and caused great anxiety among the planters, but they were able to bring it under control.
                                                                Most of our tea is grown at a height of over two thousand feet and the best Ceylon tea comes from the slopes of our central hills round about Nuwara Eliya, where the cold nights and the strong winds make for the slow growth of the tea bush and the excellent flavour of the leaf.Tea is also cultivated in the low-country,but such tea has not the same flavour as “high grown” Tea a cup of tea with good flavour is a delightful drink, but in most of our homes we have not this pleasure for many reasons, and this is indeed a  pity.
                                                                     Have you ever been to an up-country tea estate?if not, you should visit one, and learn  something of the industry that brings the greatest income to your country.In long,unending rows, spaced at regular intervals,you will see the tea bushes like a huge army of fat green dwarts. They are kept at a convenient height of about three feet by regular pruning which also enables tender shoots to appear. Every morning at six o’ clock labourers attend the “muster’’and go out in the cold mist to pluck the tea leaves. They pluck only two tender leaves and a bud from each shoot and put them into large baskets which they carry slung behind their backs. A conductor or a “kangany” supervises their work. When the plucking is over, they take the green leaves to the factory, a huge storeyed building, where the tea maker and his staff turn this green tea into the black tea which we use.A hundred punds of green tea leaves give us 20 to 25 pounds of manufactured tea.
    Let us how tea is made. The green leaves are frist spread evenly on long racks or “lofts” and left to dry. This slight drying is called “withering”. Next they are “rolled” by a special machine. The leaves now change colour and give out their familiar smell. They are then left in a room to ferment. This makes them change colour further and gives them  their flavour. They have to pass through one more process before they are ready for export, and that is “firing”. The leaves pass through hot air machines which take away all their moisture. They now turn fully black. They are then sifted into different grades according to the size of the leaf. The finest grade is called F.B.O.P{Flowery broken orange pekoe}.The finished tea is finally packed in chests and sent to Colombo for shipment. Ceylon’s chief customer is the United Kingdom.
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My Home Town

      My home town is Balangoda. It is in the Sabaragamuwa province and in Rathnapura district. It is about 142 kilometres  from Colombo and 42 kilometres  from Rathnapura  town. It is situated along the Colombo -Badulla road.

                                      Balangoda is a very beautiful city. Because it is surrounded by many hills, it has a good climate and fresh water. Therefore, many people like to live here. The main cultivations of this area are tea, coconut and paddy. The population of this area is about 50,000. Most of the people are Sinhalese Buddhists, but Muslim and Tamil people live here too.                                                                                         .               Balangoda is rather a big city. It has many facilities such as medical, traveling, water supply, leading schools and in addition, there are many historical and ancient religious places such as Aluthnuwara Kataragama Dewalaya and Boltube Saman Dewalaya. I like my home town very much.

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The Ceylon Elephant

The elephant is the king of the Ceylon jungle. No other animal dares to challenge his kingship.In their wild state, elephants live in small herds, about twenty-five in each. A full-grown male is usually the leader of the herd. Such a leader in all his majesty and dignity, roams the jungle with his followers. some elephants have tusks from which we obtain ivory; but “tuskers” are now rare in Ceylon.
                                                    Today, the Ceylon elephant belongs to a dying race. The opening up of ceylon’s forests for cultivation has steadily reduced the size of our jungles. The elephant is thus deprived of his natural home and is sometimes forced to roam on cultivated land. When this happens, the villagers shoot the animals. There are about thousand wild elephants in Ceylon today.To preserve the wild elephant and other wild animals, the Ceylon Government has set aside certain forest areas called “Game santuaries’’where animals can live in safety and breed peacefully. No one is allowed to shoot in these areas. The Ruhunu National park is one of these protected reserves, and many wild elephants, leopards,deer and other animals can be seen there in their natural surroundings.
                                                       A full- grown elephant eats a good lot of fodder a day. Elephants are fond of bathing and they spend hours in the water. They lie on their side on shallow river –beds and lift their trunks above the surface of the water.It is a very pretty sight to see baby elephants bathing. They are very playful and full of mischief, just like little children. Elephants have poor eyesight and people can approach within about a hundred yards of wild elephant. A famous photographer, Eric swan, once dared to go so close to a wild elephant that he lost his life in the attempt. Sometimes old elephants develop solitary habits and become dangerous to people. They wander away from their herds and often attack human beings. Such an elephant issues licences to people to shoot such dangerous animals.
                              From very early times the elephant has been trained to help man in various ways. It acts as a beast of burden for us and it ploughs our fields. It is also used in peraheras. What would the annual Kandy perahera be without its richly dressed elephants? Have you seen the famous Maligawa Tusker Raja who carries the sacred Tooth Relic at the perahera?
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My Favorite Author

    My favorite author is Mr. Martin Wickramasinghe. He is one of the most talented writers in Sri Lanka. Every school going child has read his novel “Madolduwa’’. His style of writing is very simple and any person can enjoy reading his book.
Some of his books are prize-winners. His books are very good. We have seen “Madolduwa”and “Gamperaliya” on screen. Some of his others books are
“Viragaya” “Yugantaya”and“Kaliyugaya”.
                                      He is a writer who has understood human nature very well.
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My Hobby

My hobby is reading books. It is a very useful (single space between words) hobby. I can improve my   knowledge by reading. I get mental   satisfaction by reading. Reading makes us understanding too. We (no need for a capital here – it is wrong) read novels we come across (learn to check your spelling) several characters both good and bad.                                                                                                                                             (Capital to start a sentence)We can learn well and (wrong use of capitals) exemplary qualities of great persons by reading.
Through books the reader enters a new world.
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things.  
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My Self

My name is W.A Shasika Chamodani wanigasekara.I live in Damahana. I am a girl. I am 16 years old. I have one sister and one brother. I am in grade eleven-A. I am a buddhist. My address is Damahana,
Balangada.My school name is R/Damahana Maha Vidyalaya. It is very big school and very beautiful. There about 40 teachers and 900 children in my school. We study many subjects at school. My favourite subjects are Maths, Science,English and etc. MY hobbies are collecting stamps , reading books. I am a member of E-village team in our school. I hope to be a doctor.

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