“Where gat ye your dinner, Lord Randal, my son?
Where gat ye your dinner, my handsome young man?”
“I din’d wi my true-love; mother, make my bed soon,
For I’m weary wi’ hunting, and fain wald lie down”

“What gat ye to your dinner, Lord Randal my son?
What gat ye to your dinner, my handsome young man?”
“I gat eels boiled in broo; mother, make my bed soon,
“For I’m wear wi’ hunting, and fain wald lie down”

“What become of your bloodhounds, Lord Randal, my son?
What becomes of your bloodhounds, my handsome young man?”
“O they swelled and they died; mother, make my bed soon?
For I’m weary wi’ hunting, and fain wald lie down”

“O I fear ye are poisoned, Lord Randal, my son!
O I fear ye are poisoned, my handsome young man!”
“O yes! I am poisoned; mother, make my bed soon
For I’m sick at the heart, and I fain wald lie down”

Anonymous

Ye – you

Wild wood – an area of land covered with trees growing wild

Hunting – A sport of kings and noblemen in the past. They went to the woods on horse back with blood hounds and killed wild animals and birds.

Fain wald lie down – willingly would (I) lie down; a strong desire to sleep.

True-love – loved one

Eels – a kind of fish

Now, I like to tell you about Horizon Lanka. But, both Sri Lankans and foreigners already know about Horizon Lanka. Horizon Lanka was born in 1998. Its founder is Mr. Nandasiri Wanninayake. He is works hard to develop it. Now it is famous in the world. You can visit Horizon Lanka web site www.horizonlanka.org. And you can get more information on what Horizon Lanka’s.

Horizon Lanka Foundation (HLF) is more useful to Mahavilachchiya villagers. Horizon Lanka Academy gives ICT and English training for village children. Students are given computer training on both hardware and software at the Horizon Lanka. They are exposed to new technology and are expected to share that knowledge. Thy can use computers during their school vacations too. And they can improve their ICT skills.

Villagers and village children can use to internet at Horizon Lanka. Horizon Lanka expect to give the online experiences to all the village children. Horizon Lanka was able to provide internet access to 30 household and two public schools free of charge by mesh technology in 2006. The president’s secretory Mr. Lalith Weerathunga and launched mesh network on 4th November in 2006.

Now, Horizon Lanka is getting ready to give to internet facilities to more village houses by using new technology.

Horizon Lanka foundation gives to facilities to villagers. There are communication facilities, internet facilities, job opportunities and many modern facilities. HFL help to village farmers to market their agricultural products at a good price. And helps community based organizations.

The villagers thanks to the Horizon Lanka Foundation and Mr. Nandasiri Wanninayake. Because we know we got all these facilities due to HLF and Mr. Wanninayake.

Once upon a time Mahavilachchiya was rural village. But now, it isn’t that rural. Now, it is a developing village. Now Mahavilachchiya have communication facilities, internet facilities and many other modern facilities.

This village children are very lucky, because they have fourteen schools for their studies. They can learn freely. Some student can hae internet access their home. This chance was given by Horizon Lanka Academy. Horizon Lanka Academy helps both village children and villagers. They can learn computers, English and have internet access at Horizon Lanka Academy.

Mahavilachchiya has a big reservoir. It is Mahavilachchiya wewa. And it supplies water to the paddy fields. There are more small reservoir in Mahavilachchiya.

Mahavilachchiya is a nice village. If you want to know more information about Mahavilachchiya, You can visit this web site at www.mahavilachchiya.net

Anuradhapura has many tanks. They are Tisa wewa, Nuwara wewa and Kala wewa and many others.

The oldest treea recorded with history is situated in Anuradhapura. It is ‘Srima Boodhiya’’.many people visit Anuradhapura.they are both Sri Lankans and foreigners. Foreigners prefer to visit Anuradhapura city.

Anuradhapura is a world heritage. And our duty is to protect ancient city. Anuradhapura is an important city for the world.

 27th of January in 2009 Miss Niki from Beijing china came to Horizon Lanka Academy. Niki is a Chinese girl. She is twenty one years old. Now, she is studying in university. She is a kind person. My friends and I talked with Nike. She told about her with us. 

That day is interesting day for us. She and us worked with computers that day. And we walked to some places in our village. And we spent that day very happily.