The Local Fishing Industry.

  Our fishing industry is as when time  began. Of course, it was not so high in standard, as today. Long before fishermen caught fish in the indian ocean, Our men caught  fresh water fish in the Mahaweli Ganga, Kalu Ganga, Kelani Ganga and in the many water holes scattered throughout the island . Fish in those places contained a lot of blood and  vitamins, unlike the saltwater fish of the sea,  

        The tasty loola, magura, weligowwa, theliya, koraliya and the kanaya enriched the blood of the sinhala race that produced  the engineering  wonders  of the ruined cities and tanks.   Today , Sri Lanka’s population has risen by leaps and bounds to 18 million  and streams cannot supply the  fish to feed these millions. So, sea-fishing on a big scale has been launched. 

Rubber cultivation in sri lanka.

  Rubber cultivation in sri lanka was started by the english. It is our second biggest revenue earner. Rubber is not a native of sri lanka. It is a native of south america. But it grows very well in the middle country of sri lanka. It too, needs plenty of water and sunshine.  Many companies do rubber cultivation here because it does not pay very much to have it on small scale. most of the companies grow rubber on estates of over hundred acres.  There is chemically produced rubber, known as artificial rubber, in other countries. but natural rubber is far superior to the artificially monufactured rubber.

The sinhala new year festival.

    We celevrate  the sinhala new year festival.  It is a national festival. sinhala buddhists and  hindus celevrate it on the 14th of april. people prepare a lot to celebrate  this  festival .   everybody  is  busy  during   this  season .  people   wear  new clothes  on   this   day.   they   cook  milkrice  at on auspicious time. They eat milkrice at a good time . they also start work at a good time. These are sinhala new year rituals. relatives  andneighbours   meet each other. theyexchange    greetings   everybody   greets  each  other  according   to   sinhala   customs .   children   offer   betel    to   their   parents   and   worship   them.   most  buddhists   visit   the   temple   on   the   sinhala  new   year  day.   they   offer  flowers   and  alms  in   the   vihara.   we  often   heav  the  temple  bells  during  this   fetival.

Baseball

   Baseball is  the most popular  sport in the united states and is often  called its national pastime.  It’s a game played with a hard ball and bat between two teams of nine players each.  In a baseball game the two teams take turns  at playing. Each of these turns is called an innings and  there  are nine innings to a game. The play starts when  a player called   the   pitcher   from   one  tean   throws   a    ball   towards   the   batter ,  a   player    on  the   opposing  team.   the  base  ball  game  is  very   similar   to   a   popular   game  called   ‘ elle ”  played  locally.  

Caddis fly.

 I ts  wings are usually held sloping over the back like a slanting roof.  Caddis flies are shy [easily frightened] Creatures  and are seldom seen except when they gather around bright lights, to which they are attractet in large numbers.   The young of the caddis fly, the caddis worm or larvae are more interesting than the adults.  These clever little creatures build long tuves of various materials in  which they live in comparative  safety.   

       The different species of caddis  worms  each use a particular type of material to  build their  houses,  like  small sticks and straw, shells, and stones.  when the caddis worms is ready to change into pupa,  it seals both ends of its home  with silk,  spends  the necessany thime  within, and then emerges as a full-grown caddis  fly.

Sanath jayasuriya.

    Sanath jayasuriya  is well  known  for  his  fast  batting.  he  holds  the  record for  the  fastest  half  century in one day  international   cricket matches.  He  also holds  the  record  for  the  highest  number  of  runs  scored  twenty  nine  in  a  single  orer.  He  is  an all-rounder,  good  at  bow ling and  fielding  too.  He  is an  old  boy  of  st servatious  college  matara.

Sri lanka

   Sri  lanka  is our  country.  It is a  beautiful is land  in  the  indian ocean.  some times  it is  called “The  capital  of  sri lanka.  is sri  jayawardenapura  kotle, colombo is its  business  centre.  sri  lanka  has  a  population  of more  than  eighteen  million  paople.     In  ancient  times  sri  lanka was  known  by  many  different  names.  the  greek  travellers  called  it taprobana  and  the  arads  called  it  serendib. 

Saliya and Asokamala.

   Prince  of saliya is the son of king dutugemunu. The prince of saliya had a  have  afair  with asokamala.  but asokamala  was  belong  to a lowcast  family.  Theretore  the  parents  of  prince  saliya  were  not  gowe.  pernmision to married and left the  perant  and came to mount of galgiriyawa.  The  lived in a cave on the mount. At the mavment there are  sevaral garden  flowers  and fruits.  people belive  that is the place they  lived  and also there are some runis  of castle.  Now  this mauntain is very  famow  place  in  sri  lanka.

     As  well  as  sri  lankan  forigners  also  come  to  visit  this  place. 

The story of sigiriya

 A long time ago a king called dhatusena ruled in Anuradapura, He had two sons named moggalana and kasyapa. kasyapa was younger than moggalana but he wanted to become king first, so he killed his father and became king.  Moggalana was very, he wanted to kill kasyapa and become king.  So kasyapa ran away from anuradapura and built a beautiful palace on top of a rock so that nobody could catch him and kill him.   This rock was  called sigiriya. He built many beautiful byildings on sigiriya and painted  beautiful pictures on the sides of the rock.  Even now we can see some of these pictures and some ruins of the buildings.

Sinharaja Rainforest.

 The  Sinharaja forest is the only undisturbed rainforest left in sri lanka. It is about 9000 hectares in extent. Many of the plants are very rare. Over 60% of the tree species  are found only in the lowland wet zone  of sri lanka. If these  species of trees are  allowed to get destroyed  the  world  lose them  altogether.  so it is  important that much effort is  made  to conserve this rich.  valuable and  fragile  habitat.    The  sinharaja rainforest is  the largest  rainforest reserve  in sri lanka.

 In  1840 sin haraja became  a crown property. In1988  the sinharaja  was  made a  National  wilderness  area. In  1989  UNESCO  included  the sinharaja  forest  in the  world  heritade  list.  as  the  first national  heritage  of  sri  lanka.   The  sinharaja  forest  is  home to many rare  animals, birds, butter flies,  insects, reptiles  and  trees,  Ferns and  mosses  grow  well as  the  climate  is  humid  because  of  heavy  rainfall.