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Dondra Lighthouse

By Navindu Paris (11 years), Rahula College, Matara

Sri Lanka is an island in the Indian Ocean. From ancient times she had been a famous harbour.
It has been the doorway to ships sailing to countries in the west and east. There are two natural
harbours in Sri Lanka.

They are Trincomalee and Galle. Lighthouses are built along the sea coast to provide light for the ships and show them the route. The first lighthouse was built in Galle in 1848. Dondra Lighthouse was built by the British in 1887.

The height of it is 47 metres. It is the highest lighthouse in Sri Lanka. It has been constructed with stones. There are nine storeys. You have to go up on a spiral staircase. The light on the top rotates a full round every five seconds and flashes to a long distance. It works day and night.

Dondra Lighthouse was made under the British government. When Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972, she took it over. Today, Dondra Lighthouse is controlled by the Ports Authority.

Holidays and school

By Ahamed Aslam (Grade 7), Lyceum Int. School, Wattala

"All work and no play make Jack a dull boy." Holidays are something important to a growing school child. Your brain can develop faster when it senses something fun and hard. That’s why some teachers add jokes in the middle of a lesson. Or else the teacher too feels something unnatural.

Holidays are something refreshing to children like us. When we have a holiday we can get up fresh and enjoy the day. We must study at the same time or do an activity like improving your handwriting.

In school times, we have an interval to have a snack and relax. To make a happy and healthy mind you need to relax and develop your brain. And remember, all work and no play make Jack a dull boy.

The computer

By Lakshitha Perera (Grade 9), Mahanama N.C., Monaragala

As a student we should have the ability to choose good things and bad things. To make a successful life, we should get more and more knowledge. We can get knowledge through various media like radio, television, books, computer, and internet.

The computer is a creation of modern technology. There are both good and bad things in the internet and some bad websites can be taken as examples. In the modern competitive world, the computer is very useful for our day to day work.

We can be happy by playing computer games. In the globalized world, anyone can’t recollect past memory. So we can store our special information in it. We can use internet as well as we can do so many things if we want. Most school students have a computer to ease their educational work.
We can talk with others through the internet as well.

Some institutions and organisations exchange their information and data individually through the internet. Today it has developed to a great extent.

My motherland

By Eranga Mudalige (15 years), Narada M.M.V. Ratnapura

My motherland is Sri Lanka. It is an island. It is a small country. It is in the Indian Ocean. It is called the ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean’. Colombo is the capital of our country. There are four main rivers in Sri Lanka. They are Kelani, Kalu, Walawe and Mahaweli. The longest river in our country is the Mahaweli. The highest mountain is Pidurutalagala.

There are many communities in our country. They are the Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and the Burghers. The majority of our country is Buddhist. Sri Lanka is 272 miles long. It has an area of 25,352 square miles.

Sri Lanka has a population of about 20 million people. There are 25 districts and nine provinces in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has a tropical climate. There are two zones in Sri Lanka, the wet zone and dry zone. The central part of our country is a hill area. We export tea, rubber and coconut on a large scale. We import vehicles, medicines and some essential food items. Sri Lanka is an agricultural country. Sri Lanka is fast developing in the third world. I love my motherland.

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