As a child, I and My family lived in a country side house in Bambarapana at Badulla district. My childhood is most interesting & fantastic. When I thinking about my past I still thinking if I was a kid. The village which I born, is most beautiful small village, that situated in Uva province Badulla District near the welimada town. Mountains waterfalls, the mist & the cold weather are treasure of the area. The village I remembered, when I think about my childhood, I think it exactly like the navel Hedi. With flower, fruits, vegetables, tea leaves, I ran around the village.
I have a very big family not only my mother side but also my father’s side. My mother is the second daughter & 3rd child of the family. She has one elder & one younger brother and a sister. I haven’t any brother. I have lot of cousin brothers which grow with me in same house. My mother’s mother has 11 siblings & they all are lived very nearest villages & they have children & children’s children as well. Some of their children lived outside the province. The best thing is my grandmother’s mother is still live. My father has 13 siblings and they all have grand grand sons as well.
Welimada is my mother’s home town which my farther spend his 20 years of young life as respected teacher. When I born, my parents and my elder sister lived in a rented house and after little while of my birth, they settle down in a small house at a corner of the village. Even today we have known that land as “hena.” The small house gave me unforgettable childhood that only countryside child can obtain. If I can I want to go that house in an instant & spend night from light of an oil lamp seen the light of next mountain. My parents cultivate our foods in our garden. But wild pigs, peacocks, wild cock, Dandu lena & Rilava are always ready to taste our cultivation. Hena is full with jungle fruit such as Nelli, dan, damba, many types of guavas, may type of mangos, Rose apple called “pini jambu”, Himbutu & Himbiliya and etc.
I spend my kindergarten life in a montisory which villagers known as sarvodaya. It was the only one kindergarten few villages had. In my childhood welimada court held on the place known as gamsabawa & kindergarten also held very next to it. However I skipped kindergarten lots & spend time in the house.
My very 1st school is Busdulla Vidyalaya which my farther taught those days. Not only the surrounding but also people of the school are very special. I went to school by bus half of the journey & by my feet other half. I had friends & many memories but my life inside that school over around six month. But that is the best best school I ever gone. My father always saying that, staff of the school is very friendly and he never met that kind of staff again. Teacher Staff, nearest church, the temple beyond the lake, the lake, friendly villages, and of cause the faddy field near the school collect different type of memory to my life.
As per my grandfather’s invitation my father came to his home town gampaha for build a house for us & we have to spend that time in my grandmother’s house. We left my priceless house. Of cause grandmother’s houses have more facilities that other villages cannot still obtain. At Hean we haven’t electricity, TV, Rado anything. All that I received in here. Not only those but also I could be with my cousins but still.
The place I knew about myself. Village school teaches me how to be strong when I was alone. To busdulla I went with my father & sister. Now I ready to go alone by climb down 2km mountain. In evening I climb up again. Sister and I went to school separately. She had lots relative friends and I liked to be alone. But I had 2 friends to do playful work such as climbing mountain, run through faddy fields, seek jungle fruits, and catch fish & frog from water resources. I received my childhood as perfect.